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A community initiative, taking a collective approach to strengthen the local food system and improve healthy eating outcomes in the Frankston and Mornington Peninsula region!

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Who We Are

A Community Initiative

Our Community Aspiration: We are all connected to food that is local, healthy and abundant.

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.

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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

25 Nov, 202025 November 2020

Our community want their plate full of local, healthy and abundant food

Our community want their plate full of local, healthy and abundant food

News & Articles

The Community Plate (TCP) is a collective of local organisations, groups and individuals working together to realise our newly announced...

29 Apr, 202020 May 2020

A message from TCP

News & Articles

We understand that these are challenging times for many. The COVID-19 pandemic is having an impact on the health of...

27 Nov, 201828 October 2020

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.