• Alerts (3) Click to view
    Current alerts 28 March 2024
    • Due to ongoing maintenance issues, the waterslides will be closed until further notice.

    • The hoist change room is unavailable. You can still access the hoist.

      All day
    • It's happening! Construction is now underway in the internal street as part of our expansion project with the Fremantle Football Club. 🔨

      All day about the expansion
    Load More
  • What's on (3) Click to view
    What's on today 28 March 2024
    • Dance, sing and play at PlayActive! 🤸 6 months to 3 years old.

      9:30 AM - 9:40 AM View Timetable opens in a new window
    • Senior Social Sports competition in the stadium.

      6:00 PM - 10:00 PM
    • Come along to our Intro to Group Fitness Sessions where we break down the moves and show you the proper technique! 🤸💃🚴

      view the classes
    Load More
  • Opening Hours Click to view
    Today's Opening Hours 28 March 2024
    • Gym (staffed hours)

      5:00 AM - 9:00 PM
    • 50m Outdoor Pool

      5:30 AM - 8:30 PM
    • General Entry and Aquatics

      5:30 AM - 8:30 PM
    • Carnaby's Club Crèche

      8:45 AM - 12:45 PM
    • Stadium

      5:30 AM - 4:00 PM
    • Plunge+Co CafĂŠ

      6:00 AM - 3:00 PM
    • Waterslides

      Closed

Cockburn ARC wins national sports innovation award

18Jul2018

Cockburn ARC has again been recognised in a national award, winning the Overall Innovations accolade at the 2018 Australian Sport, Recreation and Play Innovation Awards.

Cockburn ARC – the community’s favourite recreation hub – has again been recognised in a national award, winning the Overall Innovations accolade at the 2018 Australian Sport, Recreation and Play Innovation Awards.
 
The ARC won the award’s Facility Design and Development category and also took out the Overall Innovations Award at the National Sports Convention held at Melbourne Convention and Exhibition Centre on Tuesday, 17 July.

Cockburn Mayor Logan Howlett said it was fitting that Cockburn ARC had won the innovation award, as it was the result of a unique partnership between local government, an elite sporting club and a university in the world’s top one percent of academic rankings.

“ARC has exceeded all expectations and is clearly our community’s favourite recreation hub because it had attracted 1.3m visitors by its first birthday, 560,000 more than predicted,” Mayor Howlett said.

“In partnership with Fremantle Football Club and Curtin University, we were able to combine our resources to consult with the community to develop an innovative, inclusive and sustainable facility that has achieved its mission of ‘more people, more active, more often’.

“This was important because the need for a high quality aquatic and recreation centre to service the growing community was first identified by the City in 2009.

“The local population was predicted to grow rapidly and existing facilities were unable to meet demand and were reaching the end of their lifespan.

“It was also vital to address an increase in negative lifestyle health behaviours and risk factors in the Cockburn community.

“According to WA Health Department statistics 71% of adults were overweight or obese, 36.3% of adults were obese (compared to a 27.4% WA average), and 41.7% of adults were completing less than 150 minutes of physical activity per week.

“The centre has an average 3,736 daily visitors, it is used for weekly training by more than 49 community sporting clubs, more than 5,000 adults and children have participated in a stadium competition and more than 3,000 children participate in the swim school program.

“ARC’s membership base has an aggregated weight loss of 10.5t, more than 141m calories have been burnt by health club users, and cardio equipment in the health club has recorded more than 406,000km since opening, so we are on the right track.”   

The $109m facility has won multiple awards since opening in May 2017:
  • AUSTSWIM Teacher of Swimming and Water Safety Award 2018
  • AUSTSWIM Recognised Swim Centre Award 2018
  • Institute of Public Administration Australia (IPAA) 2018: Best Practice in Collaboration between Government and Non-Government Organisations  
  • Parks Leisure Australia WA: Community Facility of the Year
  • Leisure Industry Communications and Marketing Awards 2017: Local Government Communications and Marketing Award
  • Master Builders WA 2017, Excellence in Construction awards: Best Public Use Building over $20m
 
Cockburn ARC was also a finalist in the 2018 WA Australian Architecture Awards in the Public Architecture category announced on 29 June, and is in the running for a State Government Sport and Recreation Industries Award due to be announced on 8 August.
 
Social Media Share Links below open in a new window
Š COCKBURN ARC - CITY OF COCKBURN Procedures          Privacy Policy     SOCIAL MEDIA GUIDELINES
 
Cockburn Nyungar moort Beeliar boodja-k kaadadjiny. Koora, yeyi, benang baalap nidja boodja-k kaaradjiny.
Ngalak kaadatj dayin boodja, kep wer malayin. Ngalak kaadatj koora koora wer yeyi ngalang birdiya.

City of Cockburn acknowledges the Nyungar people of Beeliar boodja. Long ago, now and in the future they care for country.
We acknowledge a continuing connection to land, waters and culture and pay our respects to the Elders, past, present and emerging.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are warned that this website may contain images and voices of deceased persons.