COMMUNITY SPORT & WELLNESS

OUR COMMITMENTS Establishing a peak body to advocate for community sport and help attract domestic and international sporting events and competitions to the capital. Undertaking a detailed facilities audit; preparing and funding a 10-year strategic plan for the maintenance, improvement, and expansion of facilities in partnership with the sport sector; and providing yearly updates on the delivery of that plan. Introducing a $200 Active Kids sport vouchers scheme to reduce barriers to participation in community sport for children, particularly those facing disadvantage. WHAT WE STAND FOR Making it easier to maintain good health by supporting and expanding community sports and wellness programs, especially for women and girls. Investing in community sport and recreational activities, and the organisations that offer them, to help Canberrans achieve the physical activity levels required to reduce chronic illness, thereby taking downstream pressure off the ACT’s healthcare system. Maximising opportunities to unite people of different ages and from different walks of life around sport and wellness as a means of building cross-cultural understanding and community cohesion.  Maintaining the Territory’s status as the most active state or territory. Increasing opportunities to engage in sport and wellness programs for members of our community facing barriers to entry such as people with disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, and women and girls.  Building our reputation as a sporting centre of excellence and as the place to be for elite sportspeople.