Healthy Forests = Healthy Us Free Family Activity Day

Sunday 20 August 2023

We came together to celebrate forest and human health, experience and learn ways of taking care of our health in nature which can benefit Earth's health, and how healing country heals ourselves.   

Featuring a variety of short workshops, walks and talks for children and adults by Sunshine Coast organisations at Foote Sanctuary in Buderim (on Kabi Kabi country). 

This event was part of National Science Week 2023, funded by the Australian Government and coordinated by Jay Ridgewell (Held Outside).

Evaluation summary

Participants and partners were really happy and impressed with our first-time event. Below are some quick charts and you’ve already read some of the glowing comments presented within the gallery.

The most common suggestion for improvements was for more or longer or less overlapping workshops (although there was one request for a smaller event with less!) and for the Foote Sanctuary Association’s fundraising bbq to offer a non-meat lunch option in future. They did however raise $558 and were very happy with the simplicity of their operation.

Some signage to help with finding all the stalls or knowing how steep the tracks was also suggested, as was variations on the ticketing system. There’s definitely an appetite for more Healthy Forests = Healthy Us events!