Wanju Welcome Queens Park

UPGRADE OF GODFREY PARK IN QUEENS PARK

The City of Canning is engaging with the Queens Park community to create a new design concept for Godfrey Park, with the view to completing an upgrade of the park in 2023-2024. Godfrey Park is very close to Queens Park Primary School, and we would love to hear your feedback! There is also a Child Health Clinic on the side of the site.

Playgrounds are important. They can assist in developing a child’s strength, coordination and balance as well as other qualities such as social skills, imagination, creativity and problem-solving.

We are committed to providing playgrounds that offer a high quality play experience for local kids.

Please provide your thoughts on Godfrey Park by completing the survey here: https://culturecounts.cc/s/4JPnzu

We will also be holding a community picnic in late February 2023 to discuss more options for the Park design- please leave your email address in the survey so we can send more information end of January.

Your feedback is important to us.

Six Play Streets were held successfully over Cross Street and Blacksmith Street during October 2022. The Play Streets attracted 120 adults and 155 kids from the Queens Park Neighbourhood. The events demonstrated the generosity of the groups hosting the events, Little Learners Playgroup and Baris Education and Culture, kindness of neighbours, neighbours meeting each other for the first time, children playing on their streets in a safe way for the first time and a huge interest for more Play Streets across the City.

The City is currently investigating ways to create some community friendly avenues of support, where we can create a foundation to encourage further neighbourhood events across the City,

Cross Street events

Blacksmith Street events

Gibbs Street was identified as a key route in the City’s Cycling and Walking Plan, and is the artery connecting important local destinations within the area, including open spaces, education, transport hubs, and the future State Football Centre. In partnership with the Department of Transport, the City has worked to make Gibbs Street an attractive environment for people of all ages to walk and ride safely to local destinations.

Together, we have created a quieter, more connected, greener, welcoming and safer street, delivering on the community’s vision for Gibbs Street.

The involvement of the local community has been a central feature of this project and continuing to nurture this ownership is a priority to support the new use of the street. We know that by changing the street we change how people feel about it; but to change the relationship people have to the street and encourage more cycling and walking we need to activate it!

The Wanju Welcome Queens Park team is excited to support the ongoing activation of the street but to get started please join us and Let’s Get Gibbsical!

A street meeting was held on Blacksmith Street Wednesday 28 September where the Neighbourhood team engaged approximately 10 residents to attend to discuss the event. Home made lemonade was provided as an example of activity ideas residents could host on their own driveway during the Play Streets. Even during this meeting, residents who didn’t know each other were meeting and finding common ground with each other. The residents are very excited for the upcoming Play Streets and were coming up with their own ideas on how they’d like to be involved.

Join us for a series of six Play Streets in Queens Park, where we are creating a place of welcome for people to gather.

City of Canning and Football West have come together to welcome the local businesses community and strengthen relationships between businesses in Welshpool and Queens Park. This complementary breakfast brings together industry and community leaders to connect, share insights and updates on the aspirations of the local area, including the new State Football Centre.

The State Football Centre is a $39 million State and Federal Government project currently being constructed in the Queens Park Open Space. The Centre will be a home for Football West's day-to-day administration and include training facilities and playing fields to support grassroots, community and high-performance football programs.

You are invited to attend, however registration is essential. Due to limited places there is a limit of four attendees per business/organisation. Please RSVP by July 15, 2022 via Football West events email events@footballwest.com.au

50 community members attended the planting events in their neighbourhood and enjoyed a free lunch afterward.

The Queens Park Neighbourhood team have completed a very successful eight week Walk, Talk, Play series at Queens Park Reserve over February and March. More than 50 people each week have enjoyed learning Noongar words, interacting with extra play elements and learning from different cultural groups. Some examples have included some Chinese dance performers for Chinese New Year, learning how to use Indonesian instruments with the Peacock Indonesian Cultural Association, Stories from local indigenous group Beananing Kwuurt Institute and having a go at Turkish Ebru Art.

A special thank you to all the City teams that came down to be involved in one or more of our sessions- Libraries with rhyme time each week, CREEC, Community Safety and Ranger Services, Waste team, Inclusion team and Environment team.

Feedback has been very positive from the community, with high interest for more neighbourhood play sessions in the future.

Six What’s On signs have been installed around prominent locations in Queens Park including several parks, the Queens Park Train Station and the Seniors Club. These signs have been installed to assist with letting people know what’s happening in Queens Park through a traditional platform, rather than online

The Let’s Roll Neighbourhood Discovery on Bikes series is a five-part, weekly bike ride for new and novice riders, where we seek to discover the hidden gems in our neighbourhood and beyond, whilst developing our bike riding knowledge and skills.

Each week, riders will be taken on a journey with a given theme. Along the way, visiting various sites around the City of Canning, learning a little about the theme of the week. At each stop, riders will also take part in a bike activity – a game, a skills session or learn from our bike instructor.

Participants are free to choose which rides to attend – come to one, or come to all of them!

Riders require their own bike in working order, a helmet, suitable clothing and shoes. Kids 8 or over are welcome, to be accompanied by a parent/guardian if under 16. Rides will go for approximately 2 hours including all stops. Do you need to be a resident of Canning? No! We welcome people from all over.