The newly constructed Preston Beach Community Centre was opened on 6 September 2019, by Waroona Shire Councillor Noel Dew, Andrew Hastie MP, Robyn Clarke Murray-Wellington MLA and Judy Carroll with more than 80 guests celebrating the occasion.
The new Community Centre designed by MCG Architects is a modern design and boasts a modern open hall, meeting room, kitchen, storeroom, and ablutions. The Community Centre will bring economic and social benefits to the close knit community of Preston Beach.
The Preston Beach Progress Association have wasted no time in promoting and utilising the facility, hosting a number of activities which encourage an active, healthy lifestyle and to socially engage the community.
A snippet of the activities you will find at the Community Centre include: carpet bowls, pilates, Christmas in July, yoga, craft groups and holiday activities.
Preston Beach currently has around 250–260 permanent residents and this increases to as many as 2,000 day visitors during the summer months, making the Community Centre incredibly important.
Not only does it provide a venue for meetings and events, but also offers office space for community members and visiting services, as well as functioning as an evacuation centre during fire emergencies.
The new centre features more bookable office space, which is conducive to the collaboration and community building that comes with shared space, and the centre now also allows disabled access making it more readily accessible to more of our community members and visitors.
The centre is managed by the Preston Beach Progress Association and the upgrade in facilities was made possible with funding support from the Australian Government’s Building Better Regions Fund, the State Government’s Royalties for Regions program and Local Projects Local Jobs, Lotterywest, the Shire of Waroona, and the Alcoa Waroona Sustainability Fund.
This centre will now provide the Preston Beach community an adequate and innovative space that is able to meet a range of this community’s needs.
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www.waroona.wa.gov.au
This article was first published in the Peel Magazine, Spring/Summer – vol 5.2 – to read and download the full magazine, click here.