In partnership with Qld Cricket and with funding from the Queensland Government, Nutrition Australia Qld (NAQ) has conducted a “healthy sporting club make-over” project with 3 cricket club canteens in the Brisbane North Area to transform them into health promoting environments.
The project is aimed at increasing the availability and promotion of healthy food choices. Creating a health promoting sporting canteen is important in terms of promoting health and wellbeing within the club community, ensuring consistency of message and providing choice to consumers.
Sporting canteens face many of the same barriers that school canteens face in trying to create and promote healthier menus. Most notably a shortage of regular volunteers and limited equipment can make the change towards a healthier menu just that little bit more challenging.
Through our work with the cricket clubs we have trialled a number of strategies that have proved successful in assisting clubs in creating a healthier menu, promoting the canteens and supporting a health promoting environment at the clubs.
For further information, please click on the link to the Queensland Sporting Clubs and Sports Canteens page.
