Virtual Event

Purpose

Bring together stakeholders to share perspectives about how physical activity and sport, could be used as a catalyst to address health inequity.

The problem we are working on:

• Physical inactivity is the fourth leading risk for global mortality

• 70% of children and 66% of adults do not meet the physical activity guidelines

• In New South Wales in 2020, 38.3% of adults aged 16 years and over (34.1% of men and 42.3% of women) undertook insufficient levels of physical activity, defined as less than 150 minutes of moderate or vigorous activity a week, or 150 minutes of activity, or more, over fewer than five sessions a week

• In Western Sydney Local Health District 46.1% of adults aged 16 years and over undertook insufficient levels of physical activity

• Life expectancy in the lowest socio-economic areas has stalled with an increasing difference in life expectancy of 12 years between the most affluent and deprived areas

Attendees will include, people, communities and organisations, from every sector and place across Western Sydney at the intersection of physical activity.

Our recent experience during the pandemic illustrated the extent of health inequality that exists across our communities; simply those with the least suffer the most. So we have a BIG IDEA.

The time is now to showcase the strength, diversity, sense of community and collaboration of Western Sydney.

Collective Leisure is committed to ensuring the most vulnerable in our communities have access to well-being.

Agenda

1. Context - David Burns, Founder + CEO Collective Leisure

i. Health inequity in Western Sydney

ii. The physical inactivity problem

iii. Why Systems?

2. Getting Australia Active III - Professor Bill Bellew, Sydney University

i. Whole of Systems Approaches to Physical Activity Policy and Practice in Australia (ASAPa)

ii. The 8 Domains for Action

3. WSM vision - David Burns

i. An alternative future - WSM systems map

ii. Examples of comparable initiatives

4. Connecting the community to nature to improve physical activity - CEO Lori Modde, Outdoor NSW + ACT

i. Outdoor Industry value and challenges

ii. Active Outdoor Kids Program

5. Break

6. Blacktown Exercise Sports and Technology Hub (BEST) - Bryce Alley, Blacktown International Sports Park, Blacktown City Council

i. Inspiring everyone to Move More

7. Break out rooms

i. Why does moving matter?

ii. What prevents communities being physically active?

iii. Who is most effected from not moving?

8. Uniting the sectors to create a 'whole of community' approach - Janine Dawson, Diabetes Prevention Manager, Western Sydney Diabetes Alliance

9. Break

10. Promoting physical activity and community health in Western Sydney – Emma George, Associate Professor in Health and Physical Education + Justin Guagliano, Lecturer in Health Promotion, Western Sydney University

i. Professional sport as a vehicle for health promotion

ii. Addressing challenges in Western Sydney – overview of current projects

11. Break out rooms

i. What do you think the co-benefits could be?

ii. What assets and capacities do we ALREADY have in place?

iii. What would we want to measure?

12. Next steps - David Burns

13. Closing address - Yusra Metwally Senior Policy & Projects Officer, Western Sydney Community Forum

i. A voice for the COMMUNITIES of Western Sydney

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About Collective Leisure

Collective Leisure is Australia’s first social enterprise leisure management company, certified by Social Traders.

With a mission to reduce health inequity within our communities, whilst providing training and employment for people experiencing adversity.

This is summarised in our purpose statement of “enabling well-being without boundaries”.