The Heart Foundation Healthy Community Awards recognise and showcase councils working to improve heart health through building a sense of community, encouraging people to be physically active, be smoke-free and make healthy food choices.
In 2012, the two councils awarded nationally for best practice in creating a healthy community were:
Category: Councils with populations of 15,000 or less
Pyrenees Shire Council – Victoria
Category: Councils with populations greater than 15,000
City of Playford – South Australia
State Winners were:
• Victoria Daly Shire Council (Northern Territory Winner and National Highly Commended)
• Shire of Plantagenet (Western Australian Winner and National Highly Commended)
• Logan City Council (Queensland Winner and National Highly Commended)
• Manningham City Council (Victorian Winner and National Highly Commended)
• Muswellbrook Shire Council (New South Wales)
• Hinchinbrook Shire Council (Queensland)
• Municipal Council of Roxby Downs (South Australia)
• Circular Head Council (Tasmania)
• Bankstown City Council (New South Wales)
• City of Darwin (Northern Territory)
If your council is working to create a healthy community, you are invited to submit an entry for the 2013 Heart Foundation Healthy Community Awards.
On offer are:
• Exciting winner incentives, including $38,000 in cash awards
• High level of exposure for winners; and
• An electronic application process.
Entries open Monday
18th March and close Friday
17th May 2013.
For more information visit www.heartfoundation.org.au
