AustCycle Sponsorship
AustCycle is pleased to offer your organisation the opportunity to be associated with a socially and environmentally responsible program which has the potential to reach into every community across Australia in the next three years.
AustCycle sponsorship offers:
- Alignment with a socially and environmentally responsible program which aims to reduce obesity, improve public health, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, reduce congestion on our roads and provide employment to hundreds of Australians.
- A unique communications platform allowing the opportunity to align your brand with relevant and sincere community health and environment messages while deriving benefit from highly targeted activities and events.
- Association with key industry organisations such as Cycling Australia and the Amy Gillett Foundation as well as the Australian Government, providing credibility, reach and opportunities beyond the scope of any of its competitors.
- Leveraging opportunities tailored to meet your organisation’s individual goals and objectives.
Below is a summary of key points to consider:
Cyling
- Cycling provides tremendous benefits to the Australian community through the reduction of traffic congestion, air and noise pollution and greenhouse gas emissions.
- It is an affordable healthy lifestyle option for all people and promotes cardio-vascular activity and reduces stress and respiratory problems.
- For ten years bicycles have outsold cars, causing a growing community need for quality cycling training in Australia.
- Cycling provides an affordable, sustainable healthy lifestyle option for all community members with no ongoing membership or class fees associated with other lifestyle programs.
- Cycling is the fourth most popular physical activity in Australia attracting a wide demographic including serious sportspeople, children, families, commuters and older Australians.
AustCycle
- AustCycle is Australia’s only national cycling accreditation program teaching bike handling skills to community members.
- The AustCycle program provides the highest standard of cycling training with a focus on risk management and safe cycling in traffic.
- AustCycle Teachers are trained to adapt and modify the training program to meet the individual needs of their trainees such as those from disadvantaged or linguistically diverse backgrounds. This gives them the opportunity to reach into every community across Australia.
- AustCycle provides training for all levels, giving all Australians the skills and confidence to ride more.
Health
- The economic benefit of cycling participation to the Australian health system has been calculated to be over $200 million per annum.
- Partnership with AustCycle provides association with the Australian Government’s Healthy Communities Initiative (HCI) which aims to reduce the prevalence of obesity in Australia.
- The HCI will provide direct access and promotional opportunities to 92 local government areas across Australia.
Environment
- Road transport is responsible for nearly 12% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. AustCycle can help to reduce this.
Employment
- AustCycle will provide employment opportunities to hundreds of Australians across the nation over the next three years.
If you are interested in finding out more about AustCycle sponsorship opportunities contact allison_maher@bigpond.com.
