PitchFEST Workshop 6.3: Creating More Active Community Environments
Tracks
Active Places
| Thursday, June 26, 2025 |
| 11:50 AM - 12:50 PM |
Details
What strategies can we embrace to create more active places with impact?
Speaker
Neal Ames
Open Space And Recreation Planner
MidCoast Council
Solution Option 3: Closing T-junctions into microparks to create significant community outcomes
Biography
Neal has 25 years experience in the parks and recreation sector, working with all three levels of government, He is a strategic parks planner, whose specialities cover sport, recreation, sustainable environmental planning, play and urban planning. Neal has also been on PLA's National Advisory for 13 years, where he has worked to advance the parks industry, and ensure environmental outcomes.
Jean-François Laurent
Secretary General
TAFISA
Solution Option 1: Active Spaces Fostering Active Communities – International innovations
Biography
Alice Moran
Sport & Recreation Manager
Reclink
Solution Option 2: Activating underutilised community environment to encourage more people to move
Biography
Richelle Olsen
Outdoors Victoria
Solution Option 4: Side By Side Nature Walks
Biography
Chair
Sue McGill
Director, Participation Growth
Australian Sports Commission
