PURPOSE
Community
HEALTH

A purpose driven social enterprise empowering collaboration across charity sectors by engaging communities through health and wellbeing initiatives to deliver meaningful impact.

The Y in STRYDE4 represents your WHY. We’re here to AMPLIFY it!

Welcome to STRYDE4

In 2007, Geoff Coombes OAM co-founded cancer charity Tour de Cure (TdC). A community that started with just 29 people in year 1 and grew to over 15,000 participants each year, TdC has raised over $120 Million and contributed to more than 150 scientific cancer research breakthroughs. Geoff’s stewardship fostered an unparalleled and geographically dispersed sense of community, whilst developing and maintaining decade long significant corporate partnerships with iconic Australian brands.

Geoff is motivated by the power of community to come together and support those in need, encouraging individuals to be the best versions of themselves. He believes that our health is our greatest asset and connections to like-minded people, who share in each other’s joys and struggles, and who are committed to supporting worthy causes are crucial to building strong communities.

Recognising this ongoing need inspired Geoff to create STRYDE4, an organisation that delivers a unique opportunity for Australian charities, corporates and communities to come together and collaborate for greater good through a variety of community based health programs, partnerships and events.

There's great joy in witnessing individuals discover their community, supporting each other to become their authentic selves, all while extending a helping hand to those in need.

Geoff Coombes OAM

Why STRYDE4 Is Needed

There is no power for change greater than a community discovering what it cares about.

Margaret J. Wheatley

Meet the team

Working closely with

Strive Stronger website

Helping us deliver an evidence-based physical and psychological wellbeing program that will:

  1. LIVE LIFE
  2. Track progress
  3. Share growth content
  4. Provide executive reporting against key measures post event.

This will be available to STRYDE4 participants at certain sponsorship levels.

Bonnie Hancock

Position

33-year-old Bonnie Hancock recently broke the Guinness World Record for fastest person to circumnavigate mainland Australia by paddle.

Growing up in the small NSW town of Sawtell, Bonnie was primarily a board paddler and swimmer and as a late bloomer on the ski, didn’t pick up a paddle until the age of 17.

After a move to the Gold Coast at 17, Bonnie managed to grab a spot in the Nutri-Grain Ironwoman Series and would complete 7 years on the professional circuit.

After a two-year layoff finishing her Bachelor of Nutrition and Dietetics Degree at Griffith University, Bonnie decided to focus on ski paddling, medalling at Queensland State and Australian Championships in her first year of doing so.

In 2020, Bonnie read a book about a previous circumnavigation of Australia by paddle. Two years later, she set off from Mermaid Beach on her surf ski and after 254 days, finished a clockwise loop around the country. Bonnie broke the previous World Record by over 2 months. She also holds the record for the furthest distance paddled in 24 hours (open ocean) by a female, completing 235 kms on her surf ski at Airlie Beach, just two weeks after returning from her paddle around Australia.

Outline of Achievements:

  • Fastest person to circumnavigate Australia by paddle (12,700km in 254 days).
  • Youngest person to circumnavigate Australia by paddle (32 years old).
  • First Australian Woman to complete circumnavigation of mainland Australia by paddle.
  • Longest distance paddled in 24 hours open ocean by a female (235 kilometres).
  • 14 Australian Championship Gold Medals.
  • 3rd Coolangatta Gold 2012.

Explore LiveLife Score

LiveLife Score

Aggregates the Biological Age and Mental Fitness Gauge to provide an indicator to measure overall change. LiveLife takes less than 5 mins to complete.

Biological Age

Measures physiological capacity to meet demands of everyday life and the ability to spend and restore energy.

While date of birth tells how old you are chronologically, Biological Age indicates how well your body is functioning right now. Biological Age calculates physical fitness, nutrition, metabolic health and lifestyle factors that have been identified in scientific studies as major contributors to morbidity (chronic disease) and longevity. The Biological Age assessment ranks you against expected values (adjusted for age and sex), based on the best available scientific evidence.

Mental Fitness Gauge

Measures the ability to manage stress, think clearly and make better decisions. Mental fitness enables people to respond to the domains of everyday life, fully engage in work and in life with a high sense of achievement and have an emotional buffer/capacity to deal with change.

Individual Dashboard & Executive Reporting.

Personalised individual reports that benchmark change over time. 

Individual

Users receives a confidential summary of their peronalised results with recommendations and next steps. Individual reports provide concrete measures of where employees are in real-time, and tracks changes.

Biological Age

Measures physiological capacity to meet demands of everyday life and the ability to spend and restore energy.

While date of birth tells how old you are chronologically, Biological Age indicates how well your body is functioning right now. Biological Age calculates physical fitness, nutrition, metabolic health and lifestyle factors that have been identified in scientific studies as major contributors to morbidity (chronic disease) and longevity. The Biological Age assessment ranks you against expected values (adjusted for age and sex), based on the best available scientific evidence.

Executive Summary

Team leaders and organisations receive an Executive Summary including aggregated summaries of results and future program recommendations with specific strategies to enhance physical and psychological wellbeing, productivity and employee engagement.

Community is much more than belonging to something; it's about doing something together that makes belonging matter.

Brian Solis
STRYDE4 is the only Australian social enterprise focused on supporting your organisations health and wellbeing objectives whilst maximising your social impact.
Get in touch today and let our team build a program that you will be proud to look back on in just 12 months time.