National Fitness Council of South Australia.

Also known as
National Fitness Council of South Australia. (1939-1975)
Function
Sporting Organisation
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The National Fitness Council of South Australia was a government advisory body established in 1939 that alerted individuals to the importance of gaining physical fitness, and encouraged community interest in open space and the "Quality of Environment." In 1976 the Council was taken over by the Department of Tourism, Recreation and Sport.

From its inception the National Fitness Council offered women a decided role in the organization and promotion of recreation in South Australia. As most of its programmes were sex segregated, administrative and practical positions for women within the agency were assured.

The Council continued to play a major role in fostering women's sport in the post-war years. It provided coaching assistance in a variety of sports (including tennis, athletics, hockey, netball and was also instrumental in organizing and promoting new team sports. It was responsible for the formation of the South Australian Amateur Gymnastic Association in 1952, and the introduction of softball, cricket and court cricket to girls' schools. In 1941, the Council expanded its activities outside the country areas into rural and regional South Australia.

Through the provision of financial and administrative assistance, played a major role in the formation of the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council which, in turn, was important in providing suitable playing gorunds for women's sport. Repeated attempts by the National Fitness Council and the South Australian Women's Amateur Sports Council to get government assistance were partially rewarded in 1952 when the state government donated 19 acres of land for the development of a women's sports field. This was the area that would become known as the South Australian Women's Memorial Playing Fields.

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Australian Women's Register

  1. She's Game: Women Making Australian Sporting History
    Australian Women's Archives Project
    [2007]
    Published: Australian Women's Archives Project
    Series: http://www.womenaustralia.info/exhib/sg/sport-home.html
  2. A Fair Go?: Women in Sport in South Australia: 1945 - 1965
    Randall, Leonie M.
    [1986]
  3. State Library of South Australia, Mortlock Library of South Australiana: Papers relating to the National Fitness Council of South Australia (1964 - 1976)
    Comprises: Policy statement; annual reports; minutes of meetings; correspondence; membership lists; papers relating to the Duke of Edinburgh's Award; course program and training notes for courses in Camp leadership, Recreation, Fitness, Youth Leadership, Creative Art-Craft, Tabloid Sports, Basketball/Netball, Circuit Training and Track and Field Coaching; questionnaires and evaluation report forms; Cataloguing and Indexing Procedure; film distribution list; and papers from the Youth Hostels Association of South Australia, Outward Bound South Australia, South Australian Veterans Amateur Athletic Club, Mitcham Hills Hockey Club, the South Australian Women's Memorial Playing Fields Trust and the South Australian Women's Keep Fit Association..
    PRG 1366/38
  4. State Records of South Australia: National Fitness Council records National Fitness Council records National Fitness Council records (1939 - 1975)
    Includes minutes, subject files, financial records, printers blocks, press cuttings, and examples of publications. For preliminary box listing see the Series List for GRG 95 in Research Centres. For notes by A.E. Simpson concerning the history of the National Fitness Council see Box 95 Numbers 1008-1010. See also records of Outward Bound SA Inc SRG 305 in the State Library of South Australia.
    GRG95

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  1. Modern athlete and coach : a journal of track and field athletics
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  4. Constitution of the National Fitness Council of South Australia
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  6. National Fitness Act 1941 / Commonwealth Council for National Fitness. Constitution / National Fitness Council of South Australia
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  10. Camps in South Australia : information about available camps, campsites, training and conference centres
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  1. The National Fitness Council of South Australia : a history 1939-1976 / A.E. Simpson
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    [ Book : 1986 ]
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  3. Constitution of the National Fitness Council of South Australia
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  4. National Fitness Act 1941 / Commonwealth Council for National Fitness. Constitution / National Fitness Council of South Australia
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