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The Alternate Leisure Initiative

4 August 2022

The Monash Health, Health Promotion team are inviting you to be involved in the pilot phase of The Alternate Leisure Initiative.

This initiative has been designed to support the workplace’s and community’s health and wellbeing. The initiative aims to increase physical activity, mental wellbeing and social connection in Alternate Leisure settings and support settings to strengthen their health and wellbeing practices in the inclusion and healthy eating areas. It will also provide the opportunity to increase community visitation to Alternate Leisure settings that are involved.

For the purposes of this project Alternate Leisure settings are defined as: dance studios, trampoline centres, children’s play centres, entertainment centres, theme parks, children’s farms, indoor sport centres, rock climbing centres, ten pin bowling centres, water parks, go karting and laser tag settings.

If you would like to participate in the pilot phase of the initiative, please contact Monash Health via the emails below.


Register your interest to:

Cassandra.crothers-swensson@monashhealth.org or
Belinda.hogg@monashhealth.org


The study has been reviewed and approved by the Monash Health Human Research Ethics Committee.

The Alternate Leisure Initiative

An initiative to increase physical activity and social connection in Alternate Leisure settings - Monash Health