The Mothers Living Well Research Report: A Vision for Bayswater

The Mothers Living Well Research Report: A Vision for Bayswater and the Mothers Living Well Bayswater Community Plan is about to be launched on the 10th of December during the Play Day Street Party (see notice below). A full report will be available from 10 December at the Knox Community Health Service Website

The research report explores the experiences for mothers in Bayswater and describes the “vision” emerging from the mothers’ conversations, photos, and community workshops about what would make Bayswater the best place to live, connect and get around by walking and cycling.

The Mothers Living Well Bayswater Community Plan will guide the activities of Mothers Living Well Project is presented in two parts: ‘Infrastructure’ and ‘Events & Activities’.

Some quotes from the research report include:

“Support is the absolute for mums. Having a supportive environment”.

“A community centre in the shopping part of Bayswater. Mums could do their shopping and look at the list of courses that are on and maybe think about joining one of them” .

“People would be walking around. People would be happier. Happy people mean happier communities. Kids would be healthy and happy playing outside; doing things.”

“ people talking to each other on the street and people visiting each other. People involved and having groups and thinking that that lady over there has a disabled son and that she can’t get to the shops, so they have a roster and one a month they go in and look after her son…”

“There would be less graffiti and women would feel safer walking the streets and parents would feel more inclined to let their kids play in the park and feel it was safe.”