My Bertram Place Plan

Aarrrr me hearties!

The Bertram Pirate Hunt kicks of Saturrrrday, 25 September. Be sure to get your Pirate Treasure map from any of the local Bertram Businesses and hunt for Captain Bertie's treasure clues. Prizes to be won - T's & C's apply (see below).

Captain Kalino is rrrready for the Pirate Treasure Hunt!

BERTRAM PIRATE TREASURE HUNT

Pick up one of the Bertram Pirate Treasure Hunt Maps from the participating Bertram shops or businesses

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING LOCAL BUSINESSES IN BERTRAM.

The Bertram Businesses would like to thank all the participants who came and discovered Bertram Shopping Centre and surrounds and braved the winter weather to complete the fun trail. The prize winners have been drawn. Congratulations to:

• Plus Fitness gym membership - Mark
• Cuzzies voucher - Samuel Denham
• Jazmine’s Flowers voucher - Braxton
• Subway Meal - Layla

We had so much positive feedback on the Penguin Hunt. People said they loved that it was a fun, free, family activity to take part in and it took them on a trail to discover shops they did not know existed.

Keep watching this page as a Pirate Hunt is being rolled out for September School Holidays! Arrhh!

Join in the fun of the Bertram Penguin Hunt this July School Holidays, starting from Saturday 3 to Sunday 18 July 2021. Pick up your map from shops at the Bertram Central Shopping Centre and hunt for the penguins names in the windows of the participating businesses. Fun prizes to be won.

BERTRAM PENGUIN HUNT

Pick up one of the Bertram Penguin Hunt Maps from the participating Bertram shops or businesses. The Bertram Penguin Hunt runs from Saturday, 3 July, 2021 to close of business on Sunday, 18 July 2021.

The Bertram Penguin Hunt competition is an initiative of the Bertram Business Owners and coordinated by the Place Leader, City of Kwinana.

Thanks for supporting your Local Shopping Centre!

Thanks for contributing to the Bertram Place Plan engagement – we really appreciate it! We have had such a great response with over 250 surveys completed. Many of these were on line but the majority were done face to face. We’re taking this opportunity to loop back and let you know what we’ve been up to, what came out of the community engagement and to touch base and get your feedback before we move onto the next stage of the place plan process. To this end, we have made a copy of the Draft Bertram Place Plan, available online for your consideration. It’s worth noting that The Plan has not yet been endorsed by the City, as we are eager to hear the thoughts and feedback of community members such as yourself first.

What are we doing?

We’re working with the Bertram community to help create and support great public places. The Bertram Place Plan outlines a proposal of how we can work together to achieve the collective aspirations of the community and the City. This proposal is supported by an action plan to guide the next 18 months and assist us in working together to develop a shared future vision for Bertram and longer-term improvements.

What have we done?

The plan is a summary of the knowledge we have gathered about Bertram over the past 18 months. During this time, we worked to get to know Bertram, its people and stories via a series of community engagement activities including:

• Place Postcards were hand delivered by the Place Team to over 500 houses within a 500m (approx.) radius of the Bertram Community Centre and e-distribution through the Bertram Primary School and Bertram Chat
• Place survey – both online and face to face with a total of 250 responses
• Numerous one-on-one interviews with local businesses in the Bertram Shopping Centre. While this stage of data collection was impacted by COVID-19 restrictions, we have continued to develop our relationship with local businesses and support them via initiatives such as the City’s Stay Loyal Shop Local campaign and the Local Commercial Support Grants;
• Place Audits with Local Community Groups (prior to social distancing restrictions prevented further such gatherings);
• In-place engagement activities including:
• Mad Hatters Tea Party – over 300 people
• Bertram Show - Face Painting stall with over 80 little faces painted
• Three movie nights - 400+ people attended with over 300 ice creams eaten
• Coffee Van Morning at Bertram Primary School – 67 coffees drunk and over 200 of the fabulous school community met

We’d love to hear what you think!

Unfortunately, A Taste of Bertram which was to be our Key Visioning Event was cancelled due to COVID-19. For this reason, the Place Plan (link above) does not contain a shared vision as originally intended. Instead, it includes a set of four guiding principles and an Action Plan derived from the information collected via the above engagement activities.

We would love to hear your feedback, particularly regarding these guiding principles and the Action Plan:

1. What do you think about the Action Plan and the range and type of actions included?
2. Do the guiding principles reflect what you want from your community?
3. What have we missed?
4. Do you have any other feedback?

Be sure to let us know if you would like to be more involved in the future or if you would be interested in being part of making any of these changes happen.

Where to from here?

We will be taking the Bertram Place Plan to the Council meeting on 28 October 2020. To this end, we would appreciate any comments by 3 September 2020 to enable us to collate the feedback received and incorporate it into The Plan. Once formally endorsed by the City we will continue to work with the Bertram community to collectively deliver the actions. The Place Audits will continue throughout the life of the Place Plan and will be used to measure and track the progress of the area over time.

If you’d like to chat further or are eager to be involved, please contact me, your local Place Leader. We can meet at the Bertram Community Centre or Sara’s Patisserie for a catch up, between 9.00am - 5.00pm, alternatively, flick me an email or give me a buzz to arrange a time that suits you. My details are:

Jenny Marslen

Place Leader – North

0428 936 250

Jenny.Marslen@kwinana.wa.gov.au

Community feedback from the Mad Hatters Tea Party.

Time is running out to share what you love about Bertram and what ideas and activation's you would like to see happen, both big and small, in the Place Plan area.

Our March Movie Night at Bertram Community Centre

The Bertram Place Plan survey is open. If you live, work or play in Bertram we would love your thoughts, ideas and comments. It should take 6 - 7 minutes for you to complete and the information that you share will help us make an Action Plan specially for the Bertram Place Area which includes, Bertram Central Shopping Centre, Bertram Community Centre and Ascot Park. The Action Plan will then be delivered over the next 18 months.

If you have questions or need help to complete the survey you are welcome to contact Jenny, Place Leader, on 9439 0261.

Mad Hatters Tea Party 2019

It was great fun sharing the Bertram Place Plan with the school community at Bertram Primary's assembly today. Thanks for your interest and all your great ideas and thoughts that you shared. Bringing Kumar's delicious coffee with us made everyone smile! Over 40 place plan surveys were filled in which is fantastic as it will really help to build the Action Plan which is a major part of the Place Plan. If you missed out and would like to fill in a survey please contact Jenny, Place Leader, on 9439 0261.

Coffee morning at Bertram Primary. Thanks Kumar (KMCoffee2You) for bringing along your coffee van - it was a great addition to the morning!

We spent the last two weekends out and about at the Mad Hatter's Tea Party (Bertram Community Centre) and the Bertram Show (Ascot Park) talking to people. Both events had fantastic attendance and super fun activities. We held a face painting stall at the Bertram Show and the designs on faces were amazing!

The best thing about being at the Community Centre and Ascot Park was being able to talk to the community who live, work and play in the spaces that we are focusing on in the Bertram Place Plan. We had great feedback to our questions and are looking forward to more consultation activities in 2020.

Mad Hatters Tea Party

Bertram Show

The movie Cocoa was a real hit with young and old bringing laughter, festive music and even a tear to most peoples eyes. The Movie Night was held as part of the Summer holiday programming for the Bertram Community Centre. It was a perfect night with over 200 people enjoying picnics, great food from the neighbouring shops and free ice-creams! With a crowd like this we just had to ask the questions:

1. What do you love about Bertram?
2. What things would you do to improve Bertram that can be done right away and wouldn’t cost a lot?
3. What changes would you make in the long term that would have the biggest impact?
4. How would you like to be involved?

We received fabulous answers to the questions which we will use to build the Bertram Place Plan. If you have a love or special interest in Bertram and would like to also contribute to the Place Plan please contact Jenny, Place Leader, on 9439 0261.

Movie Night at the local community centre