GET INVOLVED!

Enriching the lives of veterans and first responders


JOIN A COMMUNITY OF LIKE-MINDED PEOPLE

We’ll help you improve your health and wellness, and make new friends and memories you’ll never forget!

PHYSICAL ACTIVITIES

Staying physically fit is a standard part of service life – but you don’t have to lose that just because you’re out. Your local team will help you get back into it, challenging you but also tailoring activities to suit any injuries.

Buddy Up Teams organise sporting activities like kayaking, mountain biking or hiking, hold fitness and yoga classes, go for team runs – any physical activities you and your buddies want to tackle.

Improve your sleep, maintain a healthy weight, boost your mood, manage stress and increase your general quality of life – get involved with your local Buddy Up team or contact us to start your own.

HELPING OTHERS

Buddy Up provides a way for you to not just connect with other ex-service personnel, but to play a meaningful part in your community, volunteering for events and organisations where you can make a difference.

We have volunteered at schools, planted trees with local community groups, worked with students or people with disabilities, run beach clean ups, provided helping hands to Rotary in WA…all by volunteering to make a difference in our communities.

SOCIAL ACTIVITIES

Reconnect and build relationships. Know you are part of a team who have your back

Buddy Up Australia Teams run social activities to make room for building relationships between the members – and between all the physical fitness and volunteering, you need time to just relax and reconnect. Here, you are surrounded by people who understand where you have been and what you have seen. Grab a coffee, have a BBQ, watch the game, see a show and enjoy being part of a team again.

JOIN US AS A MEMBER

We offer free lifetime membership to current and ex-serving defence members, first responders and their families to join in on our physical fitness, social, volunteering and virtual events.

FIND YOUR LOCAL TEAM

We currently have 14 teams Australia-wide plus a National Team which connects members virtually.

MEMBERSHIP OPTIONS

OPTION 1

FREE
MEMBERSHIP

Current or ex-serving defence member, first responder or family member – free lifetime membership

OPTION 2

Supporter membership

$49

Per Year

(*A supporter is someone who does not have an affiliation to ADF or First Responders, however, they love what we do and would like to support us by way of volunteering and/or donation. Please note, we would love for our Supporter Members to be able to attend all events however, where event attendance is capped, priority is giving to our current / ex-serving members and their families).

Vision

Our Veterans, First Responders and their families are thriving

Mission

To serve those who have served their country & community

WHY JOIN US?

BUILD NEW CONNECTIONS

make new friends in a safe and supportive environment

IMPROVE YOUR FITNESS

join in on our physical fitness activities

MAKE A DIFFERENCE

help out your community through our volunteering activities

IMPROVE YOUR MENTAL HEALTH

find a sense of meaning and purpose again

WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY •

WHAT OUR MEMBERS SAY •

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