Community Planting Days (2 & 30 July 2023)
Community Planting Days 2023
In 2023, the Town of Victoria Park invites our residents, community members and groups and visitors to take part in one or both Community Planting Days. Please find the details for the two community days below and register your participation today.
Community Planting Day 1: Rotary Park, Sunday 2 July 2023
This planting day is a free community event, celebrating NAIDOC Week 2023, with a Welcome to Country and Traditional Smoking Ceremony by Elder representative Matthew McGuire, cultural and friendly activities and refreshments.
This year's NAIDOC theme is: "For Our Elders." We invite you to bring grandparents and/or elderly members of our community to come to the planting day to watch the Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony and sit and enjoy being in nature together.
Please join us, with your family, friends, neighbours, grandparents, and community members.
- Time: 9am - 12pm, registration starts from 8.30am
- Location: Rotary Park, St James. See map here.
- Requirement: Please bring your own gardening gloves, spade, hat and water bottle. Please bring portable chairs for seating options for our elders.
- Registrations: Essential for catering purposes via this TryBooking link. You can also click here: https://www.trybooking.com/CHAMX
Community Planting Day 2: Hayman Road, Sunday 30 July 2023
Grow our Urban Forest, enjoy the outdoors & get your hands grubby! This is a free community event with entertainment and refreshments provided.
This planting day also coincides with National Tree Planting Day.
- Time: 9am - 12pm, registration starts from 8.30am
- Location: Hayman Road, Cnr Kent Street & Hayman Road, Bentley. See map here.
- Requirement: Please bring your own gardening gloves, spade, hat and water bottle.
- Registrations: Essential for catering purposes via this TryBooking link. You can also click here: https://www.trybooking.com/CHAMO
This National Tree Planting day event is proudly supported by Monadelphous Group Limited.
What is Community Planting Day?
Every year, the Town’s Urban Forest Team holds community planting days. It is a day where residents and community members are invited to plant tree seedlings at a selected park or area around Town that has been identified as suitable for creating Urban Ecosystems.
Our community planting days coincide with celebrating NAIDOC Week and National Tree Day (on 1 August) every year, where Australians are encouraged to celebrate our country's rich Indigenous culture and history, and help plant one million new native trees and shrubs across the country, respectively.
Community Planting Days are family friendly events and the Town invites everyone to don their gardening gear, bring their gardening gloves and spade to attend a planting event. The Town will provide all seedlings and other fun community activities.
Did you know? Our 2021 Community Planting Days contributed 8314m2 of canopy cover! Find out more.
Our community planting days coincide with celebrating NAIDOC Week and National Tree Day (normally on the last Sunday in August) every year, where Australians are encouraged to celebrate our country's rich Indigenous culture and history, and help plant one million new native trees and shrubs across the country, respectively.
Community Planting Days are family friendly events and the Town invites everyone to don their gardening gear, bring their gardening gloves and spade to attend a planting event.
The Town will provide all seedlings and other fun community activities.
Did you know? Our 2022 Community Planting Days saw us planting 257 trees and 10,349 shrubs, adding 7,428m² projected canopy cover.
Find out more.
Our Community Planting Days sites
You can now visit the following Community Planting Days sites to check out the progress of our greening collaboration:
Watch Drone Footage of our planting efforts at Kent St Verge