Title: Active Spaces: messaging tips

Topic: Health equity, physical activity

Published: 2025

Partners: VicHealth

This tip sheet will help you make the case for opening up public spaces such as school grounds, town spaces and parks to everyone in the community, by making those spaces more inclusive and welcoming.

Common Cause Australia and VicHealth developed this tip sheet with input from Victorian stakeholders across three settings: 

• Council-managed spaces such as town squares and sports facilities 

• Public schools, where community members want to use the grounds early, late, and on weekends

• Public parks and nature reserves.