I believe this a great chance for kids to become engaged with exercise, in a natural and flexible environment.
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Ballarat High School's Bikes for Everyone
Mountain bikes for school curriculum, community and a borrowing system.
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Suggested by: James
Project partner: Ballarat High School
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Central Highlands
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This project will strengthen the curriculum within our school and offer a bike borrowing/hiring system for our student/family population, therefore promoting healthy and active lifestyles within our community. We are a large state school with a quickly expanding Outdoor Education faculty. However in order to continue to cater for the growing interests of our students, we simply cannot meet this demand with the little-to-no budget we currently have. Therefore this grant would provide the opportunity for our student/school community to access mountain bikes and ultimately be physically active both at school (expeditions/excursions/camps) and in their personal life (weekends/holidays borrowing).
The rates of overweight and obesity are much higher than the state average within Ballarat, and it has been identified that there is an interest from our local community to take part in unstructured physical activity offerings. These findings, along with our existing natural environment of bike trails and paths within Ballarat and surrounds, make our project the perfect investment in the promotion of active and healthy lifestyles. The borrowing system our school will administer will allow for our local community members to be active outside of school hours, therefore maximising, extending and expanding the annual health benefits.
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Project details
Suggested by: James
Project partner: Ballarat High School
Region
Central Highlands
Budget
Votes
187 votes received
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Great idea to encourage a healthy and fun activity. There are plenty of excellent tracks around Ballarat.
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Great suggestion James!
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Great initiative!
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Awesome idea.
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Fantastic idea well done
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I love this idea
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Fantastic idea!
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Well done Ballarat High School for the great initiative an innovative idea for the youth of today
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great idea
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what a great idea, combining several things into one, like fitness, outdoor, community (biking together and reaching out to those who do not have a bike - love it
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Fantastic!!! Would be enjoyable for everyone
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Excellent idea for the kids and families of BHS
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What a brilliant idea. Great work BHS!
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Great for the Students!
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Love this! Getting people active.
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Great initiative!!! Well done and hope you meet great success in gaining the grant needed.
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Is there going to be tandem bicycles for 2 people to ride at once?
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I can’t wait to ride these bikes if we win this
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Great Iniative getting all involved.
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A worthwhile program with some innovative teachers. Stay on it guys!
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A fabulous program to get kids healthy and help them learn
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BooLoveMusic
16 Sep 2018
100% behind this project. Great idea!