Alternative event and competition ideas

If a Community Healthy BBQ Challenge is not right for your community or organisation, here are some other ideas:

Hold a ‘cooking on a budget’ demonstration, sharing tips for inexpensive healthy recipes.
Hold a healthy recipe demonstration or competition.
Hold a healthy food for children demonstration, sharing tips for helping children to eat more healthy food.
Organise a local fruit and vegetable co-op to improve availability of fresh fruit and vegetables from local growers.

Simply alter the Community Healthy BBQ Challenge toolkit to meet your needs.

You could link your event to a community health day or week, like those identified below.

Health months/weeks/days you can link your event to:

February – World Cancer Day (4th)
March – World Kidney Day (13th)
April – Great Australian Bite month; World Health Day (7th)
May – National Heart Week (1st week); Kidney Health Week (last week of the month)
June – Bowel Cancer Awareness Week (2nd week); International Men’s Health Week (2nd week)
July – National Diabetes Week (3rd week)
August – National Healthy Bones Week (1st week)
September – National Stroke Week (3rd week)
October – National Nutrition Week (2nd week)
November – World Diabetes Day (14th), National Food Safety Week (2nd week)