Do Your Thing – Bundaberg
‘Do your thing’ as a service provider to improve health and wellbeing
A new, community owned and led initiative has recently launched in the Bundaberg region with the central message that there is ‘no one size fits all’ when it comes to health and wellbeing. Do Your Thing encourages families to ‘do their thing’ by making healthy choices that work for them.
The initiative is part of a broader ‘Building a Healthy Bundaberg’ Alliance which has the goal of reducing the region’s rate of overweight and obesity to below the national average by 2030. It draws on work funded by Health and Wellbeing Queensland and conducted by applied behavioural science company, Evidn, whose findings called for the need to:
Increase families’ visibility of, and access to, existing high-quality programs and services’
Increase collaboration between organisations and community groups; and
Promote a positive health and wellbeing identity for the Bundaberg region.
At its core, Do Your Thing is about bringing stakeholders together to improve the way programs and services are coordinated, delivered, and communicated across the region.
Since its launch in April 2022, Do Your Thing has brought together more than 40 local community members, representing 28 organisations across nutrition, physical health, mental health, and social wellbeing to form a Local Leadership Group. This group is supported by the Queensland Government through Health and Wellbeing Queensland (HWQld) and the Department of Tourism, Innovation, and Sport (DTIS), in partnership with Bundaberg Regional Council.
How to get involved?
There are two ways to get involved in Do Your Thing as a service provider, community group, or organisation.
- Join the Building a Healthy Bundaberg Alliance mailing list and participate in bi-monthly meetings to hear updates from local and state-wide organisations about health and wellbeing initiatives in the Bundaberg region
- Join the Do Your Thing Local Leadership Group and support the on-ground delivery of the initiative
For more information about Do Your Thing, visit the website or to learn about the research behind the initiative, get in touch with Dr Crystal La Rue Senior Behavioural Scientist at Evidn.