Join the Community Plate - The Community Plate

A Community Initiative

We will work collaboratively across all levels of community to build a strong, vibrant and connected food system that empowers us all to make healthier food choices.

Who We Are

The Community Plate is taking a Collective Impact approach to bring people together, and drive action aimed at strengthening the local food system and improving healthy eating.

Initiatives

Work currently taking place throughout the Frankston City and MorningtonPeninsula region

We invite you to join The Community Plate Collective!

Community participation is critical to Collective Impact. The Community Plate won’t be able to achieve large scale change without you.

We invite you to get involved!

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Frankston City Council

1:0 The ratio of healthy to unhealthy food outlets

0% The number of us who are overweight or obese

0% The number of us who aren’t meeting vegetable consumption guidelines

0% The number of us who are eating takeaway at least three times a week

Mornington Peninsula Shire

1:0 The ratio of healthy to unhealthy food outlets

0% The number of us who are overweight or obese

0% The number of us who aren’t meeting vegetable consumption guidelines

0% The number of us who are eating takeaway at least three times a week

Who said little changes don’t have big impacts…we made some basic changes, rearranged the displays to place the healthy choice “out there”. We educated the staff and whola!!!

Belgravia Leisure

We are fortunate to have such collaborative and innovative preventative health agencies that are willing to working in partnership to positively impact the healthy eating agenda locally

Executive Officer, Frankston Mornington Peninsula Primary Care Partnership

We need to support local primary producers to make local produce more accessible.
Healthy eating education needs to be part of the school curriculum.
What about incentives for food businesses to offer more healthy options.

Ideas generated in the Community Plate workshops

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Latest News & Events

19 Nov, 201919 November 2019

And we’re off!

And we’re off!

The Community Plate was officially launched by Frankston Cr Mayor Michael O’Reilly in October at the Frankston District Netball Association’s...

7 Feb, 20197 February 2019

Healthy Canteens

Healthy Canteens

Supporting children to make a healthy choice the ‘normal’ choice is vitally important to their health throughout life.

27 Nov, 20157 February 2019

What’s going on in your community

What’s going on in your community

The health of our community is of the utmost importance for the prosperity of our region. Nearly two-thirds of Australian adults are now overweight or obese and these trends are on the rise. The obesogenic physical, economic, political and sociocultural environments in which we live are driving these trends.

7 Feb, 201911 March 2019

Healthy Eating in our Leisure Centres

Healthy Eating in our Leisure Centres

Frankston City Council, Mornington Peninsula Shire, Frankston Mornington Peninsula Primary Care Partnership and Peninsula Health are currently working in collaboration to support local leisure centres to increase healthy eating.