Be a Charter Member for an Active Community

Sign on to the charter and help your community get moving!

Endorse the Active Communities Charter (pdf, 8 ½ by 14 size) and help create a culture of change in your community. You and your organization will be supporting an active community that encourages and promotes physical activity for the people living there. Seize the opportunity…it’s within your reach!

What is an 'active community'?

An active community is one with features (e.g. sidewalks, trails, bike lanes, parks, pedestrian-friendly streetscapes, recreation centres, etc.) that support and enable residents to be more active every day. Active communities are vibrant and economically successful because they encourage healthy activity, social interaction, citizen engagement and environmental action.

What is the Charter?

In 2007, Health for Life and the Haliburton, Kawartha, Pine Ridge District Health Unit created and endorsed the Active Communities Charter. The Charter outlines principles and values for working towards an active community. It’s a clear statement of support for creating built and social environments in your community that support daily physical activity.

Why endorse the Charter?

• Almost half of Canadians aged 12 and older are physically inactive (Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute)
• More than 90 per cent of children and youth are not active enough for healthy growth and development (Canadian Fitness and Lifestyle Research Institute)
• A number of diseases and ailments are linked to physical inactivity, including Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke and hypertension (Public Health Agency of Canada)

A healthy, active community helps address these problems by providing opportunities for people of all ages and incomes to make healthy choices.

The Charter makes the case for active communities. Its values and principles provide the framework for putting it into practice. Add your endorsement to the Charter, and encourage friends, colleagues, local politicians, municipal staff, planners and others to do so as well.

How do you endorse the Charter?

Join the growing list of individuals and groups that have signed onto the Charter. Simply click here (e-mail link) to endorse the Charter and show your commitment for an active, healthy community. Please include your name, organization and contact information.*

Additional Resources

Designing Active Communities Tool Kit - A list of resources for municipal leaders, planners and others to design an active community.

For more information on the Active Communities Charter, call the HKPR District Health Unit toll-free at 1-866-888-4577.

**Privacy Note: Information is gathered for the sole purpose of showing endorsement of the Active Communities Charter. In your e-mail, please indicate any personal information that you do not want included on the web site.

June 13, 2008

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