Wellard Village 7 Day Makeover

What an amazing first day of the Wellard Village 7 Day Makeover!

The Wellard community came together to talk placemaking and brainstorm ideas. We finished today with a list of exciting potential projects to be further workshopped in tomorrow’s session.

Thank you to the amazing folk who participated and shared their ideas for working together to make Wellard Village even better. Your enthusiasm & creativity is awesome, and we can’t wait to see what tomorrow’s session holds.

If you missed today’s workshop it’s not too late to get involved! Please feel free to attend any day this week (regardless of whether you have registered). No skills or experience needed, just a positive attitude!

Reconnect WA

The City is proud to be partnering with RAC through their Reconnect WA initiative to bring this project to life. Reconnect WA seeks to help reimagine and revitalise streets and public spaces to:

• Create vibrant and active places for Western Australians to interact and reconnect with our cities and towns, and each other.
• Inspire and empower residents and business communities to co-design and drive change in their local area.
• Lay the foundations for longer-term changes to support, safe, sustainable and connected communities.

Peet

Special thanks to Peet for their contribution toward to the Wellard Village 7 Day Makeover project budget. That $5000 will help achieve the community’s vision for the street.

Peet are the industry experts behind the masterplanned Village at Wellard, and now also a Gold Sponsor of the Wellard Village 7 Day Makeover!

Kwik Skips

A massive thanks to Brett and the team at Kwik Skips for donating a skip bin to the Makeover. This is going to make revitalising the street so much easier and its awesome to know any discarded building materials will be recycled!

The Mills Family have operated Kwik Skips since 1997 and employ an amazing team dedicated to providing a professional waste & rubbish removal and skip bins Perth service.

Mo & Macs

HUGE thank you to the Mo & Macs crew for their donation of $200 toward our materials budget. Claire and the team ran a delicious macaron fundraiser just for the makeover, making them an official Bronze Sponsor!

Mo and Macs is a family-run businesses from right here in Wellard. They are also founding members of the Wellard Village People Town Team.

Ceramico Tiles & Bathrooms

Big thanks to the team at Ceramico Rockingham for their donation of tiles to the youth-led Arcade project!

The Team at Ceramico have over 50 years of experience and will help you at every stage of your project.

Absolute Painting Services

A big thank you to Lou Jon Peters from Absolute Painting Services for donating his time to the painting of the street piano.

Lou offers house painting services from right here in Wellard!

Bsparkz Electrics

How amazing are Brett Foster and the team at Bsparkz Electrics - EC 12218. They donated their time and a team of sparkies to help us complete the pergola project.

There’s no job too big or small for this local, family run business!

We're incredibly fortunate to be working with David Engwicht from Creative Communities International. David is a world renowned placemaker, community activator, and champion of public spaces. He even has a TEDx presentation on what makes great public places.

He's also the boffin behind the 7 Day Makeover process, and will be will facilitating the makeover of Wellard Village in April 2023. You can see some of the extraordinary work David does with the community at https://7day.com.au/.

David is a fantastic presenter and facilitator. The opportunity to work with him right here in Kwinana is not to be missed!

The City of Kwinana is delighted to announce we will be partnering with the RAC through their Reconnect WA initiative, on an upcoming project in Wellard.

Reconnect WA seeks to help re-imagine and revitalise streets and public spaces to create connected, safe and sustainable places. Focusing on The Strand in Wellard, the project will work with local businesses and the community to implement a program of temporary trials, activation, beatification, and interventions in September – November of this year.

To prepare and plan for this activation period, we will be running a series of audits, workshops and other engagement initiatives throughout June – July 2022. As a local business we would love to hear your thoughts, and would be eager to organize a time to discuss your experiences and to hear your ideas for the area.

To find out more or to get involved, please don’t hesitate to email place@kwinana.wa.gov.au or call our Place Team via (08) 9439 0200.

For more information on Reconnect WA please visit:

https://rac.com.au/about-rac/advocating-change/initiatives/reconnect-wa

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- Callum

The Strand, Wellard