Wanju Welcome Queens Park

Football fever hits Canning with free clinics for kids

The world game is coming to Perth and the City of Canning is inviting its residents to celebrate with a series of free community football (soccer) clinics for local kids.

The City has partnered with Football West to run two clinics in May and June: the Girl’s Day Out (27 May) and Kick it Skills Community Clinic (10 June).

The Girl’s Day Out is a fun morning of football aimed at girls and young women from ages 8-16. Members of the Perth Glory women’s team will be there to help players learn the basics or hone their skills.

The Kick it Skills Community Clinic is for girls and boys from 4-14 and will help young players learn individual and team skills and put this into practise with a game at the end.

For more details, or to register for either of the above sessions, residents can visit https://kickitfootball.com.au/cityofcanning/

A further two free casual soccer games (no registration required) will be run by Football Futures for 10 to 17-year-olds on Thursday 8 June at East Cannington Reserve and Thursday 15 June at Queens PARK Reserve, both from 3.30pm to 5pm.

Please join us to help paint a Turkish and local flora inspired mural at the back of the Canning Mosque. Find us in the walkway behind Hartfield Park, between Hartfield Street and Treasure Rd.

Join us to celebrate Cùram Early Learning School’s 5th birthday and the end of Ramadan with a range of interactive activities, stalls, Turkish sweets and finger food along Hartfield Street.

Artist Mel McVee will be creating a Turkish inspired community mural and you’re invited to pick up a brush and make your mark.

Saturday 29 April

10am-1pm

Hartfield Street, Queens Park

We're calling local Seniors and kindy-aged children to participate in fun art workshops to help build confidence and resilience skills!

'Driving Connections' is an art and play program that will build children’s confidence and skills to keep trying when things get hard. The program will do this by bringing together seniors who have valuable life experience to share with parents and kindy-aged children.

Please see the flyers below for more details and registration links.

KINDY FLYER AND LINK

SENIORS FLYER AND LINK

Join us for a small neighbourhood picnic to discuss playground ideas for the upgrades for Godfrey 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.