A Friends Group is a volunteer community group that works together with the City of Joondalup to preserve, protect and manage their local natural area within the City. Our Friends Group members are passionate individuals who love the natural environment and want to protect and conserve it. Friends Groups can vary from informal, small groups to a more formal incorporated body.
Valuable natural environment
The City of Joondalup’s natural environment is biodiverse and unique, with many natural areas that provide a rich and valuable resource for residents, visitors and native flora and fauna. Natural areas provide valuable habitat for our native wildlife and they are also important for recreational, educational and aesthetic value within our community.
Friends Group activities
Friends Groups may be involved in a variety of activities for a particular reserve, with the aim of restoring the reserve’s conservation values and the community’s appreciation of the natural environment.
Friends Group activities include:
- gardening and planting
- monitoring and recording of flora and fauna
- weed control/removal
- rubbish clean-up
- seed collection
- community events and education
- revegetation and planting.
How to join or form a Friends Group
The City is lucky to have 19 Friends Groups. There are many benefits to joining a Friends Group, including:
- Making a real difference to the environment and helping to create a sustainable future by protecting local biodiversity and natural areas.
- Networking and learning the expertise of managing urban bushland.
- Meet new people and join a community.
- Physical and mental health benefits, and well as improvement of general wellbeing.
- Being outdoors in nature and enjoying your natural surroundings.
- Experience seeing native wildlife and rare flora and fauna species.
- Relive stress and keep your mind and brain healthy.
- Placing an order with the City for free native plants to plant in your reserve.
- Access to environmental training and workshops.
- Access to various City grants.
Most groups work within an area of bushland located near their home. Interested in joining or creating a Friends Group? Fill out our form below and a City officer will be in contact to help.
Friends Group Expression of Interest form
Visit the City's Community Directory to find a Friends Group near you. If there is no existing Friends Group in place for the reserve, then the City encourages the establishment of a new Friends Group. You can express your interest in establishing a new Friends Group by contacting the City via info@joondalup.wa.gov.au.
