Happiness Survey - Victorian Goldfields World Heritage

GREAT PLACES TO LIVE ARE GREAT PLACES TO VISIT

Tourism will play a vital part in our region’s COVID recovery. To get our planning right, we’re putting the Goldfields communities front and centre. Starting with measuring our happiness.

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Thank you to everyone who completed the survey and entered the draw by 31 August 2021 to win a $100 voucher to Bendigo Heritage Attractions or National Trust membership for a year. While the competition has now closed and winners have been notified, the survey remains open. Congratulations to all our winners!

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The Goldfields communities are strong communities.

Resilient, progressive, creative, diverse, inclusive. Proud.

Let’s make the Central Victorian Goldfields region the best it can be!

#AbsoluteGold

#HappyCommunities

#RegionalRecovery

The World Heritage Bid is shining a light on our beautiful region and unique heritage. We want to celebrate and share this with visitors, to strengthen our economy and allow our communities to thrive.

How understanding happiness will help our region’s COVID recovery

A happy community is a thriving community. As part of the wider COVID recovery, governments are investing to build stronger communities. Measuring individual and community happiness allows us to understand what factors contribute to our well-being and helps us focus investment to improve our quality of life.

You can help make your Goldfields community the best it can be by taking the Happiness Index Survey. Why not measure your happiness and find out how you compare to others? The survey kicked off on the International Day of Happiness on 20 March 2021.

How is your quality of life?

For you and your community!

Your privacy is assured. Your response is anonymous, used only for the purpose outlined here and only used in overall score cards, aggregated with other people’s responses. Your response will not be sold and is only kept as long as useful. (In line with the strongest privacy code, the European Union’s Protection of Personal Data Directive 2016/679).

The Goldfields region is leading this work, an Australian first.

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What is the Happiness Index?

Can we measure happiness? Yes, by assessing multiple domains of well-being.

How is it used? Aggregated scores from the Happiness Index are shared back with communities so that everyone can have a say in what they want to happen for their happiness and well-being and with government and the tourism sector to identify how best to strengthen links between tourism development and the quality of life of host communities.

Learn more at Planet Happiness and the Happiness Alliance.

International Day of Happiness

20 March 2021

As we face a global crisis together, let’s find positive ways to look after ourselves and each other, starting with these three positive steps…

Keep Calm. Stay Wise. Be Kind.

Learn more about the International Day of Happiness 2021 and the positive steps you can take when facing difficult times. You can also download the Personal Happiness Handbook and find out How to be Happy.

The communities of the Central Victorian Goldfields region

Explore the interactive map to discover which communities are part of the World Heritage Bid.

Acknowledgement

Deployment of the Happiness Index Survey was proudly funded by the region’s thirteen local governments and a partnership with Planet Happiness.

The Happiness Index Survey’s deployment in the Central Victorian Goldfields region was developed for the Sustainable Tourism product, infrastructure and investment priorities project, which is proudly co-funded by Regional Development Victoria, Victorian Goldfields Tourism Executive, City of Ballarat and City of Greater Bendigo.

Competition terms and conditions (which closed on 31 August 2021). The competition to win '$100 voucher to Bendigo Heritage Attractions and National Trust membership for a year' closes at 5pm 31 August 2021. Prizes are drawn on 10 September 2021. Winners are selected by being allocated a number in entry order and using random.org random number generator. Winners (only) will be notified and receive their prize via their nominated email address. If the prize winner does not respond to this notification, after one month the prize will be redrawn and reallocated to a new winner. The competition is open to anyone over 13 years of age who is a resident in any of the following local government areas: Ararat Rural City Council; Campaspe Shire Council; Central Goldfields Shire Council; City of Ballarat; City of Greater Bendigo; Golden Plains Shire Council; Hepburn Shire Council; Loddon Shire Council; Macedon Ranges Shire Council; Moorabool Shire Council; Mount Alexander Shire Council; Northern Grampians Shire Council; and, Pyrenees Shire Council. To be eligible to go into the draw, you need to complete the Happiness Index Survey and provide your email address at the end. All email addresses will be deleted after the prize draw and are not used for any other purpose. Prizes are not transferable for cash. This competition is in no way sponsored, endorsed, administered by or associated with Facebook.

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