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VicHealth

Victoria Walks is funded through VicHealth – The Victorian Health Promotion Foundation. VicHealth doesn’t just do health education or awareness-raising. It also focuses on making changes in our social, economic, cultural and physical environments to improve everyone’s health and wellbeing.

VicHealth is funding this site, and some other Victoria Walks activities, because walking and other forms of active transport (such as cycling) are vital in our efforts to increase physical activity and combat traffic congestion, pollution, obesity and a host of preventable diseases.

It is hard to miss the increasingly urgent message that we need to do something to increase physical activity among all groups in our community. But it’s clear, too, that not everyone wants to go to a gym or play sport.

Walking is a very effective way of building physical activity into our everyday lives – and it also helps people make and sustain connections with other people in their own neighbourhoods. Having connections makes an enormous difference to a person’s sense of wellbeing and happiness.

One of VicHealth’s key objectives is to increase the knowledge and skills of organisations, communities and sectors to promote walking and cycling.

For example, for many years, VicHealth has collaborated with local councils and funded programs that increase physical activity among residents and build a sense of community. Streets Ahead and the Walking School Bus are a great examples.

VicHealth also encourages urban planners and municipal health officers to think about how our neighbourhoods can support health and wellbeing. It also supports community arts and cultural festivals that help build connections within neighbourhoods and local areas.

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Sponsorship opportunities

As a not-for-profit health promotion charity, Victoria Walks will consider sponsorship opportunities/commercial endorsement from companies and organisations that support, and align with, the aims of Victoria Walks.

To discuss sponsorship and commercial endorsement opportunites, please contact:

Dr Ben Rossiter
Executive Officer
Victoria Walks Inc.
C/o VicHealth Offices
15-31 Pelham Street, Carlton 3053
 
Phone: + 61 3 9667 1339
Email:  brossiter [AT] victoriawalks.org.au