Participation in Community Sport and Active Recreation: Useful links
- Read VicHealth's policy on promoting other organisations’ projects, resources and weblinks on this website.
This section includes peak sporting and active recreation industry organisations.
Regional Sports Assemblies
Click here
State Sporting Associations
Click here
Australian Sports Commission
The Australian Government body that coordinates the Government’s commitment and contribution to sport.
www.ausport.gov.au/
The Big Issue
Information on the Homeless World Cup and the Street Socceroos.
www.bigissue.org.au/street-socceroos/
CMY - Multicultural Sports & Recreation Program
Sport and recreation info from the Centre for Multicultural Youth.
www.cmyi.net.au/MulticulturalSport/MulticulturalSportHome
Council on the Ageing (COTA) Victoria - Healthy & Active Ageing
Healthy and active ageing information and programs from Australia's leading seniors' organisation.
www.cotavic.org.au/healthy__and__active_ageing
Go For Your Life
Victorian Government initiative that aims to promote healthy eating and increase levels of physical activity. Hundreds of ideas to help you stay happy, healthy and active.
www.goforyourlife.vic.gov.au/
Kinect Australia (incorporating VicFit)
Established through the Ministers for Sport & Recreation and Health to provide advice to government and to coordinate the promotion of fitness in Victoria.
www.vicfit.com.au/
RecLink
Assists people experiencing social and economic disadvantage to access sporting and recreational opportunities as a form of social therapy.
www.reclink.org/
Sport & Recreation Victoria
A division of the Department of Planning & Community Development.
http://www.dvc.vic.gov.au/sportandrecreationvictoria
Sports Medicine Australia
Australia's peak advisory body on all medical and health issues for active people.
www.smavic.org/Content/Pub/ContentDetail.asp?lngContentID=235
VicSport
Non-government member-based organisation representing over 170 members of the Sport and Recreation Industry and their affiliated groups, including State Sports Associations, Regional Sports Assemblies, Local Government Agencies, University Sport Organisations and other associated industry groups.
www.vicsport.asn.au
Victorian Aboriginal Youth, Sport and Recreation (VAYSAR)
State peak body for Indigenous Sport in Victoria.
www.vaysar.com/
Victorian Network on Recreation Disability (VICNORD)
Statewide information and advocacy network of people with disabilities, their carers and advocacy groups in relation to recreation, sport, physical activity, tourism and the arts.
www.advocacyhouse.org/vicnord/about.html