Healthy Towns Challenge 14_15

Five rural NSW towns are competing in the NSW Healthy Towns Challenge 2014 to win the inaugural NSW Healthy Town Award. Towns outside the Greater Sydney metropolitan area with a population of between 1,000 and 15,000 were invited to apply for five $15,000 grant awards to compete in the challenge, which runs from 1 October 2014 to 1 June 2015. The winner of the challenge will be announced in July 2015.

Following a competitive selection process, five towns across NSW were selected to participate in the Challenge. Click on the town name for more information about each of the selected town’s Healthy Town Challenge.

Bomaderry
Cooma - Monaro
Tottenham and Tullamore
Wellington
Yamba (including Angourie, Palmers island and Wooloweyah)

The challenge is a joint initiative of NSW Health and the NSW Heart Foundation to help rural communities become healthier. For more information about the NSW Healthy Towns Challenge 2014, please contact Santosh Khanal, Senior Evaluation Officer, NSW Office of Preventive Health at email  Santosh.Khanal@sswahs.nsw.gov.au or phone 02 8738 7231

Click here for Creating Heart Healthy Town, a Heart Foundation resource that provides guidance to communities on developing and implementing local initiatives to decrease the risks of heart disease.

Click here for challenge applicaton documents.