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 chapter will help you get back into it, challenging you but also tailoring activities to suit any injuries.
Buddy Up chapters 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 chapter 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 chapters 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 CHAPTER
We currently have 11 Chapters Australia-wide plus a National Chapter 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
Enriching the lives of serving and former emergency services and military personnel
Mission
Keeping our buddies in the well zone (prevention/early intervention of mental illness)
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 •
