Youth
Participation

Thanks to project funding from VicHealth’s JumpStart Grant, we were able to support 26 rural students from Derrinallum P-12 in Corangamite to get active within their own community.

We worked with students to design an active in nature program that made use of the shire’s natural assets, and gave them a chance to try new activities.

Students took part in a 4-week program that included trailriding, stand up paddle boarding, beach volleyball, and canoeing combined with arange of social connection activities all aimed at building connections with peers, increasing participation, and getting active in nature.

As part of our organisation's work to engage young people in sport & recreation, we teamed up with the students at Warrnambool's Deakin Res to run a Rock Up Social Sports program, as part of our Neighbourhood Activation Project.

We met with Res Leaders back in March who identified the need for social sports on campus and supported us to design and develop a participation program that would engage their peers and activate their community through play.

Over the course of 4 weeks participant numbers grew from 10 to over 20, with students rocking up rain, hail, or shine to join in with social netball.

The best part about it, thanks to funding from South West Community Foundation we were able to leave the Students and Deakin Res Warrnambool with their own Neighbourhood Activation Kit full off equipment to enable them to continue their rock-up social sport program without us.