QORF eNews July 2017
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Outdoors Queensland Awards 2017
Nominations for the Outdoors Queensland Awards (formerly known as the Queensland Outdoor Recreation Awards) are now OPEN. We encourage YOU to make an award nomination – to acknowledge an organisation, an individual, a special event or program, for contribution to the outdoor sector in Queensland.
The Awards are generously sponsored by The Queensland Government, the Brisbane City Council, K2 Basecamp and Nature Play QLD. The ongoing support from these organisations is greatly appreciated and helps to encourage inspiring nominations and to guarantee an enjoyable Awards Dinner where we showcase the award finalists.
The award winners will be announced at the Outdoors Queensland Awards Dinner being held at the Rydges South Bank Brisbane on Friday October 27th, 2017 – officially the final QORF event in Outdoor-tober 2017. Get in early and reserve your table at the discounted Early Bird rate.
Crepuscular rays appear to converge on the sun. Anti-crepuscular rays appear to converge on a point of the sky opposite the sun, sometimes seen in the eastern sky during sunset or the western sky during sunrise.
Rays of light from the sun are effectively parallel to each other, but our perspective on the ground causes the rays to appear to fan out from one point. Perspective is a critical ingredient in this mix.
QORF aims to develop and promote quality human experiences in outdoor environments. We advocate for a wide range of benefits that can be achieved by having more people in the outdoors more often.
It is a wonderful product that virtually sells itself, with most people seeming to have an innate understanding that the outdoors is “good” for them. However, the perspectives of different people can affect their levels of participation.
Many people seem to think that this modern world doesn’t provide enough time to get outdoors. However, there is 24 hours in every day. You can encourage people to put things in perspective, prioritise what is good for them, and find time to get out there.
Before you head outside, have a good read of this edition of our monthly eNews – as always, there is plenty to absorb, with various happenings converging on the world of the outdoors.
Yours crepuscularly,
Dom
Dom Courtney, Executive Officer
Live Life Outdoors
A life lived in the outdoors makes you happier, richer and healthier, and in Queensland we have amazing places to get outdoors and activities to engage in. So, it made sense for
us to adopt Live Life Outdoors as our tagline and to encourage more people to get outdoors more often ...
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QORF Wall Planner 2018
Planning us underway for the 2018 wall Planner - seen on over 2500 office walls in QLD, the planner is a great place to promote your product or services. To order or advertise ... Learn More
Outdoor-tober 2017
A month long celebration of activities in the outdoors. We invite EVERYONE in Queensland to get outdoors in October.
Need help funding a NEW outdoor event running in October? Learn More
Embracing 2018 Passport!
Nature Play QLD has partnered with the Embracing 2018 Legacy Program for the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games to develop a new special edition Nature Play QLD Embracing 2018 Passport! Learn More
Kids Benefit: NPQLD Funding
More Queensland children will have opportunities to play and learn in a natural environment, with the Palaszczuk Government announcing a new three year, $1.87m, commitment to
encourage
kids to spend more time playing outdoors embracing nature. Learn More
Skills IQ Feedback Forum
The SkillsIQ Feedback Forum is a custom built tool designed to collect your feedback during the process of training package product development. ie the SIS Sport, Fitness and Recreation TP
Learn More
Outdoor ED Cookbook
by Laura Collins, Hannah Sanders & Enya Schaefer. A useful resource that can be used by both outdoor
professionals and outdoor education students alike. Find on the QORF Education Resources page.
What's On
Are you running a training session or hosting an event?
Let us help promote it for you.
Simply go to Submitting Your Event, give us all the details and we'll add it to the What's On calendar.
Are you a training provider and regularly host public training opportunities in outdoor skills?
Tell us all about it and we'll promote that too! On Discover, in the Training section and/or
What's On.
Email us at industry@qorf.org.au
Get in the Game
Funding rounds up to 2020 have been announced - A three year, $125m commitment to support grassroots sport and recreation ... Read more
Rock-climbing Perfect
Ask Ninja Warrior competitors which sport gives you the edge, and they'll inevitably tell you it's rock climbing!
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Queenslanders Hooked!
Queenslanders hooked on freshwater fishing - Recreational fishers throughout Queensland are set to reap the benefits of more than three million fish will be stocked in Queensland dams and weirs over the coming year.
Read more
Road Toads & Pedalphiles
Mythbusting the reasons why people hate cyclists: their lights are too bright, they don’t have lights; they ride on the line, they ride on the road; they ride too fast on footpaths, they ride too slow in traffic; they don’t wear helmets, they do wear lycra!! ... read more
Coming Events
Events coming up in the next month or so - the National Footbike Championships on Aug. 5/6; Employment for ALL - a workshop about jobs for people with a disability on Aug. 15; Queensland Seniors Week from Aug. 19; the Queensland Mountain Running Championships on Aug. 20, the ARB Moreton Island Fishing Classic from 23-29 Aug and the Chicks in the Sticks MTB event on Aug. 27.
Do you host events? Our resources page on Event Management might have what you need! Find out!
Outdoor Classroom Day
Has your school or educational centre pledged yet? Outdoor Classroom Day is an international campaign to celebrate the power of outdoor learning for young minds; Nature Play QLD is rolling it out across Queensland on September 7
DATE CLAIMER: Add to your dairies NOW so you won't forget - Outdoors Queensland Awards Dinner Friday October 27 (will you be there to suppport your nomination?)
Jobs
Several new jobs are listed on our Jobs Available page in the Industry / Jobs & Careers section
Looking for a job and want to let people know - promote yourself on Jobs Wanted
New on the Website
A page on Knot Tying; new Apps for Outdoors: Knots, National Geographic, Campermate, Toolbox, updates to Go See Oz and coming soon: new pages on Geocaching, Canoeing and Parkour.
If you have any suggestions for new or improved content please email industry@qorf.org.au.
Do you want to share a story, a good outdoorsy blog, a useful resource or more with our audience ... simply go to the (I WANT TO...) SUBMIT page and follow the prompts!.
Connect With Us
With the ever increasing importance
of social media as a marketing tool and way of keeping in touch, QORF is developing a solid social media presence. We encourage you to like us on Facebook, follow us on Twitter, subscribe to us on YouTube,
follow us on Instagram and follow us on LinkedIn.
LIKE, FOLLOW and SUBSCRIBE to us and we will reciprocate!! A good way to keep in touch and be more effective.
On being a QORF member!
As a QORF member you have a choice to make – sit back and hope things work out, or – much better – get involved! Learn more about Getting Involved and Making Connections
Member Opportunities
If you have jobs to fill, gear to sell, links & eNewsletters to share, events to promote or if you want to write a review, tell us a story, or make a suggestion; send us the details and we'll put it all online.
Go to the Membership section to become a QORF Green Circle Member today. New members will be acknowledged here, on the QORF home page and on our social media platforms.
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