The awards just keep on coming for the Satterley Property Group’s Brighton Estate with local resident Doreen Holland being named as a Community Champion by the Injury Control Council of Western Australia.

Doreen is a walk leader as part of a Women’s Health Works exercise initiative and her volunteer work has been recognised as part of WA’s Community Safety Month.

Special certificates will be presented to Doreen and others at the launch of the month-long event on October 1.

Satterley Property Group chief executive Nigel Satterley congratulated Doreen on being recognised for her volunteer work.

“Our organisation values greatly the work of many volunteers across all our estates and it is great to have people in your community who take the time and trouble to contribute so much to their neighbours and to community,” he said.

Doreen has been involved as a walk leader in Brighton for 18 months.

Part of Doreen’s role has been to create safe walk trails.

This entails ensuring the walking route has sealed paths free from pot holes and other lurking dangers, that they are well lit and there is adequate signage and there is seating along the way for those who want to have a rest point.

All Brighton residents can join in the fun walks that are meets weekly.

The organised exercise sessions are free and Doreen believes that the social nature of the walk helps to reduce any feeling of isolation people might have by increasing their social networks.

A big factor in Doreen’s work is that she has organised walk trail that are graded – from easy, to intermediate to hard. In addition the total distance to be walked has been mapped out

So keen is Doreen that she attends walk leader training sessions on first aid, back care and community safety.

Watch out would-be thieves or other criminal-minded individuals in the northern suburbs  – you have been warned.

People living across the Satterley Property Group award-winning Brighton Estate in Butler are after you.

They are putting safety first in a major campaign to protect their property, their children and their community.

A special sub-committee of committed people on the Brighton Estate Residents Association has been formed to deal with all issues surrounding community safety.

Ideas range from putting parents on patrol to appointing community safety champions.

The move follows a community safety forum held recently and attended by key players from the area.

Attendees included the Mayor and Deputy Mayor of the City of Wanneroo, John Quigley, MLA the Member for Mindarie, the four elected North Coastal Ward councillors, the council’s chief executive and police from Clarkson and the Crime Prevention Unit.

“This is a very positive move by residents and it is fully supported by us,” Satterley Property Group chief executive Nigel Satterley said.

“All our community development officers are involved in this initiative so that people can be part of any safety campaign that is introduced.

“It is far better to be ahead of the play than to sit back, do nothing, and just wait for something to happen before responding,” Mr Satterley said.

“We are hoping that our residents’ efforts will see Brighton endorsed as a safe community and receive accreditation for this from the Safe Community Foundation Australia.”

The Brighton residents on the safety sub-committee will promote a range of safety initiatives, including looking at the use by children of computers and cyber space.

Other issues to be looked at are the roles of Neighbourhood Watch, the use of Safety Houses, and the introduction of Walking School Buses where parents walk with a number of children to school.

Further safety measures that the sub-committee will look at includes trying to raise the number of people who understand First Aid in the area and highlight the need for proper maintenance of bicycles used by children.

Attention all Butler Skate Park skateboarders.

The Satterley Property Group has joined the City of Wanneroo’s school holiday program to transport local skateboarders, free of charge, to Yanchep for a competition.

It is all part of the Satterley group’s Community Development program for Brighton.

And everyone involved in the youth program operating from the Butler Skate Park are welcome to board the buses for the Yanchep contest.

Satterley’s community development co-ordinator Ben Hogarth said skateboarders, BMX and scooter riders would use specially hired buses to get to Yanchep.

“We have gone one step further,” he said.

“Satterley will also organise for the Yanchep locals who take part in this Yanchep Youth Program to come to the Brighton Estate and compete in our next Butler Skate Park event

The Yanchep-bound buses are scheduled to leave Butler at 10.30am next Tuesday (July 13) from the Butler Community Centre Skate Park.

This initiative is the first of many that will have Satterley’s community development staff partner the City of Wanneroo for special programs and events.

Scores of Butler and Brighton teenagers have spoken, and Nigel Satterley has responded with a resounding “yes.”

Another big community youth event, Unite Youth 2, will be held at the Satterley Property Group’s award-winning Brighton Estate within the next few months.

The decision follows 150 written responses from local teenagers, and many parents, to the overwhelmingly successful inaugural Unite Youth night at Brighton recently.

More than 800 teenagers, young people and parents at that event had Satterley’s Brighton Estate ‘jumping’ as they enjoyed the community dancing, skating, the arcade games or trying to ride the bucking bull.

“This is simply a fantastic response,” Nigel Satterley said. “Of course, we will support these young people.”

“What a great result and encouragement for the Brighton Estate Residents’ Association, City of Wanneroo, the North Shore Church, local businesses, the Butler Community Centre and other community and sporting clubs who were involved in the previous event.

“That’s what our family first program is all about – providing healthy, wholesome community activities.”

Mr Satterley said it was gratifying that more than 150 teenagers would take the trouble to respond in writing urging another event. Most of them said that Brighton Unite Youth night was the best community event they had attended.

Satterley community and youth staff will again assist the planning, with one big difference - youth who attended the first Unite Youth night will help to plan the next event.

“This next event will be for teenagers and young people and be designed and presented by them,” Mr Satterley said.

He went on: “And what a great result to see the number of young people, and parents, who were able to be linked to local youth programs or dancing, sporting and recreational clubs in the Butler, Brighton and nearby suburbs from attending the first event.”

The spring event planning will revolve around the local community centre that operates ongoing youth outreach programs – the City of Wanneroo on Tuesday evenings and the North Shore Church on Fridays.

Australia’s biggest independent residential land developer Nigel Satterley has staked his success on one key theme – putting the community first.

And the hundreds of young people who had the Satterley Property Group’s Brighton Estate ‘jumping’ at an organised youth event can vouch that the family programs are working. 

About 800 teenagers and younger people danced the night away or took part in a multitude of events at the ‘Unite Youth’ event.

Mr Satterley said the program was a great credit to the Brighton Estate Residents’ Association, the City of Wanneroo, the North Shore Church, local businesses, the Butler Community Centre and other community and sporting clubs involved.

The youngsters had skate, BMX, dance, scooter and Guitar Hero competitions.

A disc jockey played great music. Many participants engaged in bucking ball, Gladiator, arcade games or the rock climbing wall.

“It was refreshing to get so many parents come up to our staff at the end of the night and praise the event,” Mr Satterley said. “Many made special mention of the Butler Community Centre staff who gave out information on the special services available in the area.”

The Satterley Property Group contributed most funding for the event, assisted by the Brighton Estate Residents’ Association, eight local businesses and the Home Buyers Centre.

“We create healthy, family communities and the Brighton marketing slogan - it’s what a community should be - says it all when events such as this are so successful,” Mr Satterley said.

Satterley is the industry pacesetter in assisting local communities to organise a wide range of free family and youth events including single women’s activities, community nursing programs, Carols by Candlelight, concerts and movie nights, art in the park and special occasion activities. The company has built schools, introduced new water technologies and fostered environmental activities.

Satterley pioneered free concerts with first class performers such as James Morrison, Wendy Matthew, Daryl Braithwaite –backed by outstanding local supporting artists – attracting crowds of up to 6000. 

Playgroup, face painting, bouncy castle and visits by City Farm animals are a regular occurrence and hike and bike trails, tree planting, IT training and coaching and mentoring for all ages all help to set Satterley estates, like Brighton, apart.  

It also produces local estate newsletters keeping everybody informed on any youth or other programs and has a local intranet facility.

The award-winning Brighton estate also has many examples of helping its community, such as its $200,000 outlay to build and fund The Shed, an apprentice-training facility teaching young people the ‘wet’ building trades. The Shed fast tracks local Year 10 students into apprenticeships.

Satterley also financed the presence of an Anglican priest, built the first café and convenience store, community meeting places and even paid for extensions to a dual lane public highway.

The Satterley group has donated millions of dollars to support churches, colleges and charity appeals and donated land for several Telethon and other charity homes.

Across Western Australia, Satterley’s community work includes the sponsorship of the Margaret River Fun Run and many other youth initiatives.

The company has spent $1 million to supply new soil and roll-on turf to upgrade the South Yunderup sporting ground at Austin Cove, helped to establish surf life saving clubs at Dalyellup and Secret Harbour and promoted Youth Advisory Councils on residential estates.

The Satterley Property Group employs full time staff for community development and a youth coordinator to organise events close to where the teenagers live.