About Us
#GippyGirlsCan celebrates all Gippsland women, without judgement, and challenges out-dated gender stereotypes to create a society where seeing active, empowered women is the norm and is celebrated.
WHAT IS #GIPPYGIRLSCAN?
Gippy Girls Can is first and foremost a social media movement encouraging Gippsland women and girls over the age of 18 to get active and celebrate women participating in physical activity together. Programs scheduled as Gippy Girls Can support the campaign by providing the opportunity for women and girls in Gippsland to get involved in physical activity.
GippSport is funded through VicHealth Regional Sport Program to partner with local sporting clubs and associations, and community organisations to roll opportunities under the Gippy Girls Can campaign. GippSport is the link between the activity, the sporting clubs and associations, the community groups, the participants, and the campaign to bring it all together to create the Gippy Girls Can community.
GippSport will be seeking to work with the community to increase opportunities for women and girls to participate in a range of sports and active recreation options throughout the campaign. GippSport supports local sporting clubs and associations, and community groups to host Gippy Girls Can programs and events.
This Girl Can VIC
What was it about?
Everyone in our community deserves to move in a way that feels good for them.
But we know that for many women, finding the time and space to get active can feel hard – particularly when you’re juggling caring for kids or family members, work and concerns. We also know many women don’t feel safe or included in our gyms, sports clubs, parks and fitness classes. Victorian women have told us that a big part of not trying new activities or getting involved in sport is a fear of being judged, or not being fit enough to start.
We want all women to have the right to move their bodies however, whenever and wherever they choose. And we want to ensure that the places and spaces where women get active are safe, welcoming and inclusive.
That’s why VicHealth ran the This Girl Can campaign in Victoria from 2018 to 2024. To bring together women and the physical activity sector in breaking down the barriers that keep too many women from enjoying the physical and mental benefits of being active.
And that’s why resources are still available for councils, sports clubs and other fitness centres and community groups all over the state can better support women into the future.
Together we embrace the power and joy in movement – together we are unstoppable.
HOW TO SUPPORT, ENCOURAGE AND INSPIRE VICTORIAN WOMEN
Gippy Girls Can isn’t about telling women that how they feel about exercise is wrong, or that the way they’re doing it is incorrect. And we’re not trying to guilt-trip them into taking up a sport.
We know that the fear of judgement is stopping many women from exercising, and the way we talk about exercise, physical activity and sport should lessen that fear.
We’re here to support, encourage, and inspire women, rather than educate or preach to them – and we’re all about doing it in a fun, accessible and sassy way.
HOW TO GET INVOLVED WITH #GIPPYGIRLSCAN?
Social Media
Our online community is made up of women who support, encourage and inspire each other and are passionate about helping others become more physically active.
We want Gippy Girls Can to reach as many Gippsland women as possible and we’re hoping you can help us spread the word.
You can get involved by sharing our post with your networks on your social media channels, and by sharing your own posts with the hashtag #GippyGirlsCan.
Social media handles and hashtags
- Be sure to tag @GippyGirlsCan for all campaign-related activity.
- Make sure you’re connected to and making the most of the GippyGirlsCan community by include #GippyGirlsCan on your social media
Activity
GippSport is seeking to work with the community to increase opportunities for women and girls to participate in a range of sports and active recreation options throughout the campaign.
If you are a:
- Sporting Clubs,
- Sporting Associations,
- Community groups,
- Government Organisation or
- a partner of a Local Government Organisation
and would like to host Gippy Girls Can programs or events, please get in contact with a GippSport by email gippygirlscan@gippsport.com.au