About
Active Geelong is a collaborative project that brings together leading businesses, doctors, researchers and individuals to address inactivity in the Geelong region.
It is a collective movement on a mission to make Geelong Australia’s most active city by 2020 with an additional 15,000 residents moving more.
Geelong is ideally placed to be Australia’s most active city thanks to the environment, weather, infrastructure and access to world leaders in physical activity research.
The project aims to increase access, opportunities and activities in innovative ways that boost physical activity in the Geelong region.
It has been estimated that 10% of premature deaths are attributable to physical inactivity, costing the national health budget $1.5 billion per year.
Active Geelong will provide advocacy, education and support to encourage more activity in an attempt to reduce this number and track outcomes.