Organizing health and wellness events for your neighborhood: A few ideas

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It’s always a joy for health buffs and fitness enthusiasts when they see how much they’ve influenced other people into living a healthy lifestyle. However, the encouragement reaches a whole new level when people actually make time to organize health and wellness events for the benefit of their community.


As fitness enthusiasts ourselves, it’s always quite the experience to be invited to a community-oriented gathering to help people reach their fitness goals. Many of you may be reluctant to take the reins of organizing such an endeavor. Many of you may believe that it takes a lot of time, money, and effort to put these events. It doesn’t.

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Take for example family fun runs. Getting a solid sponsor from any business in the community to chip in for run-completion achievement shirts is all you’ll need money-wise. The rest of the logistics can come from volunteers, who can be positioned at stops and rest points to offer water.


Tag-football and half-court basketball tournaments may also attract a lot of people from the community. What’s better is that these games can be a weekly thing, and later, an official event for the neighborhood.


What about you? Can you come up with other ideas on how to organize similar events for your community? Feel free to share in the comments below.


My name is Mike Volitich. I’m currently studying sports therapy at the UCLA. I’ve always been interested in sports, travel, fitness, and athletic wear. More on health on this blog.