We Heart Cooby
Yes, there is an independent Resident Association in Cooby that’s been around since 2 February 1983!
From 2019 we became a Town Team and added it to the name to foster stronger partnerships with residents, businesses, shops and local government to nurture and improve our town centre, the whole suburb and increase community connection.
Who We Are
We are Cooby residents who love living, working, running businesses, bringing up family, connecting with others (sometimes all at the same time) right here in Cooby.
Membership is free and we have a newsletter list of members that sometimes we actually send an e-news too!
We are all volunteers with a focus on making our beautiful suburb even better.
Any questions or comments to coobyca@gmail.com
Projects
From 2024, City of Cockburn is offering $30,000 in funding for Resident Groups to undertake projects in their suburb. This replaces the normal grants you can find on the City of Cockburn website. So far we have used it for Cooby Fest, developing our plastics workshops and beautifying projects in our shopping centre area. Contact us on coobyca@gmail.com or via Facebook or Instagram if you have any questions or suggestions.
Plastics Workshops
In 2023 we received a Lotterywest grant to purchase two machines -a shredder and an extruder, and together they allow us to recycle plastic bottle tops into objects using a mould - or generating plastic thread which can be used to weave items. Stay tuned for future workshops - drop off your clean milk bottle lids to Cooby Co-Work Mon-Fri 9am-5pm. Cooby CoWork is just behind BWS.
Neighbourhood and Town Boosters
We are delighted to advise we have been chosen to be part of a pilot project funded by City of Cockburn, alongside Bibra Lake and Harvest Lake Residents Associations. In a nutshell, Neighbourhood Boosters is about the power of small actions we can all take. Putting a chair or two out on the verge to sit and encourage conversation with neighbours. Have chalk for pavement art. Encourage kids to play on the footpath (supervised). Wave to neighbours. Swap out the drive to Cooby shops with a walk. Have a regular driveway meetup. Have dinner on the footpath. You get the idea! Town Boosters is a program for our Coolbellup Shopping centre where we will be working alongside them in 2025 to develop events and other strategies to bring our shops to life.
Updates
2025-6 Draft Capital Works Budget is out and on Comment on Cockburn if you want to have your say before Wed 4th June at 5pm. Image created by Bradley Zarins from Bibra Lake Community Group (thanks Brad!)
We’re finally in the queue to get the rest of our suburb on underground power! Western Power has advised that construction work is estimated to start in the second half of 2026 and be finished mid 2028.
The Cockburn Community Infrastructure Plan 2024-2041 is now complete. Tempest Park Redevelopment (page 10) is already approved to (slowly) progress. The Coolbellup Community Facilities Master Plan (Len Packham and the Cooby Hub) is second on the list of proposed new projects (page 38)
In 2024 we got a new Cockitrough in Rinaldo Reserve to keep our birdlife watered during Summer.
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