This Girl Can Inspires 1 in 6 Women to Move More in COVID-19

Healthy Lunchbox Week is an initiative of Nutrition Australia that aims to inspire Australian families to create healthy and enjoyable lunchboxes.
Did you know children consume around 30% of their daily food intake at school?
Most of this comes from the contents of their lunchbox. What children eat during their day at school plays a crucial role in their learning and development.\

Healthy Lunchbox Week helps families prepare healthy lunchboxes by:​

• inspiring healthy lunchbox ideas and recipes 

• informing a healthy lunchbox balance across core food groups

• awareness of lunchbox food hygiene and safety.​

Lunchbox ideas for Back to School

We all know homemade food is usually healthier than the expensive highly processed products that are heavily marketed for our kids lunchboxes. 
Nutrition Australia have created a range of healthy, cheap and tasty lunchbox recipes that can be made ahead ready to pop in the lunchbox on those busy weekday mornings.

Click here to access the recipes​

This February, Live Lighter are encouraging all Aussies to show their gut a little love.

As part of their Love Your Guts February campaign they're putting a spotlight on all things fibre and seeing how a little ol' roughage helps our gut bugs flourish.

Find out more about the link between fibre and mood, what we can do to keep our gut microbiome happy and whether we should be avoiding carbohydrates. There are also plenty of gut-friendly recipes plus some fun fibre facts!

Dietary fibre helps us stay full for longer, which is important for weight management, as well as assisting food to move through the digestive tract and out the other end! It has also been shown to improve blood glucose control and reduce the risk of bowel cancer, heart disease and diabetes.

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Northern Grampians Shire Council congratulates the 2022 recipients of Australia Day Awards announced at official ceremonies held in St Arnaud and Stawell Wednesday 26 January 2022.

Northern Grampians Shire Council Mayor, Cr Tony Driscoll, said Council could not be prouder of its citizens for their contributions.

“Our award recipients this year have made very selfless donations to the community through volunteering and initiatives that have dramatically improved the lives of others via charity, awareness, advocacy and inclusion work.

“The accomplishments of the individuals and groups receiving awards are absolutely staggering considering that much of what they achieved took place during the second year of a pandemic.

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Australia Day this year involved the recognition of some wonderful Pyrenees residents.

Mayor Ron Eason was proud to present the Pyrenees Leadership Award to Hayden Pilgrim, for his ongoing commitment to the Homebush and Avoca communities.

“Hayden is one of the finest examples of volunteerism we have seen in our community,” Cr Eason said.

“There’s not too many groups, committees or activities that he and wife Marg haven’t been involved with or supported in some way,” he said.

This year’s Citizen of the Year is Lynelle Day, a stalwart of the Beaufort community whose kindness knows no bounds.

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Multicultural Centre for Women’s Health are offering FREE 5 x 2-hour interactive Zoom workshops for migrant and refugee women in Victoria. The PACE (Participate, Advocate, Communicate, Engage) Leadership Program builds on migrant women’s knowledge and experiences to take on leadership roles in their lives, work and community.

Calling all migrant and refugee women in Victoria!

PACE Leadership is for you if you have lived in Australia for less than five years, are looking for work or are re-entering workforce.

This program will support you to:

• Gain confidence in yourself
• Participate in your community
• Improve communication skills
• Advocate on issues that matter to you
• Become a leader in your life and community

The Program will encourage kids to re-engage or to participate for the first time in new activities by reducing the cost of participation which can be a significant barrier to participation.

There is a total of $21 million available through the Get Active Kids Voucher Program. The initiative will deliver 100,000 vouchers over two years to eligible Victorian children and young people, assisting families with the costs of participation in sport and active recreation activities.

The Program will be delivered in a targeted way to support families facing the greatest cost pressures to participation in sport and active recreation.

You can apply for any amount above $50 and up to $200 per child for reimbursement of eligible out of pocket expenses associated with your child’s sport and active recreation activity.

You must spend a minimum amount of $50 to be eligible for the Program.

The minimum reimbursement value is $50 and maximum reimbursement value is $200. You will be reimbursed for your expenses to the closest dollar amount. 

The Program will be delivered across four Rounds over the period 1 March 2021 until 17 April 2022.

Applications for the latest funding round of disability self help grants are now open.
Grants of up to $5,000 a year over two years are available to support disability self help groups.

Self help groups bring people with disability and their families together to share insights, provide information, promote community participation and support networking.

The grants are available to assist disability self help groups with general expenses and running costs, as well as minor works and equipment.

The Disability self help grants program recognises the value of people coming together and sharing their experiences.

This year’s funding round will prioritise groups representing diverse communities, as well as those in rural and regional Victoria, to ensure all Victorians with disability and their families have access to the benefits self help groups offer their members.

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Local Community Access Grants Program

Grants of up to $20,000 are still available to support community organisations and neighbourhood houses to deliver activities that reduce COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy.

The Local Community Access Grants Program (LCAGP) funds community organisations and neighbourhood houses to deliver activities that:

· reduce COVID-19 vaccine misinformation and hesitancy

· remove practical barriers to accessing vaccines, and

· support increased uptake of the COVID-19 vaccine amongst priority groups.

Community organisations and neighbourhood houses can apply for funding that promotes and increases vaccine confidence through community engagement and improves access by removing practical barriers to COVID-19 vaccinations. Projects need to support one or more priority groups outlined in the program guidelines.

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