ConnectUp

Have you ever tried padel? 🎾✨Well, we think you should!

At Padel Perth Reabold, everyone belongs - it’s a welcoming space where people come together to play, have fun, move their bodies, and connect with others 💙

The best part? You can come and try padel for yourself at the ConnectUp Launch Party! 🎉

is a new app helping people with disability and carers connect through inclusive sport, physical activity, and shared experiences in the community.

Join us for an afternoon of fun, connection, music, food, and try-it sports activities - including padel with the amazing Padel Perth Reabold team!

📍 Bendat Basketball Centre, Floreat📅 7 June⏰ 2:00–4:30pm

No experience needed - just come along, give it a go, and meet new people 💫

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🌊 Brooke Amos, the new Disability Program Lead for is extremely excited to attend the Launch Party and can’t wait to meet people interested in starting or pursuing their swimming journey.

🏊‍♂️Why should I consider swimming?

The water creates a low-impact environment that supports movement, strength, coordination, flexibility, and independence for people of all abilities.

🏊🏾‍♀️ Swimming can improve mobility, cardiovascular fitness, muscle development, and overall wellbeing while reducing pressure on joints and the body.

🏊🏾 Beyond the physical benefits, swimming creates meaningful social connections. Being part of a swim team helps individuals build friendships, confidence, routine, teamwork, and a sense of community.

🩱The pool becomes more than a place to train, it becomes a place where everyone belongs, feels supported, and can achieve personal success.

Inclusive swimming environments empower athletes to participate, grow, and thrive at every level, from learn-to-swim programs through to competitive para swimming pathways.

Everyone deserves the opportunity to feel welcome, capable, and valued in sport — and swimming is a powerful way to make that happen – so make sure you come along, say hello, and find out ways you can get involved in swimming! ✨

Perth Launch Party - Sunday 7 June! 🎉

Join us to celebrate the launch of ConnectUp - helping people with disability and carers across WA get more socially and physically active.

Free community event
📅 Sunday 7 June, 2-4:30pm
🏟️ Bendat Basketball Centre
ℹ️ https://www.facebook.com/share/1EFcS7Yzf5/
🎟️ https://events.humanitix.com/connectup-launch-party

Huge thanks to our our amazing community lived experience co-designers who've helped bring this to life, and to our partners Carers WA, Carers Australia, Alike WA, Ballroom Fit, WA Disabled Sports Association Inc, Ramsay Health Care, People With disabilities WA

We'd love to see you there! Fully accessible event, everyone welcome.

Tagging friends who might want to share: Autism Association of Western Australia, Developmental Disability WA, VisAbility, Rocky Bay, Identitywa, Community Services Sector Perth, Support Workers, Carers and Families in Perth

More about ConnectUp: www.connectup.org.au

ConnectUp Launch Party We are launching the ConnectUp app with a 'try new sports' Launch Party! Carers, people with disability, family, and friends all are warmly welcome!

📸✨ Who doesn’t love a picture opportunity?

At the ConnectUp Launch Party we’ll have a photo station ready for snaps with friends, family, and new connections 💙

🎉 Try activities
🤝 Meet new people
📱 Discover the ConnectUp app

📍 Bendat Centre, Floreat🗓️ 7 June | 2:00–4:30pm

Tag your photo buddy and come celebrate with us!

Come and meet at party 🎉

Rebound WA is a not-for-profit organisation dedicated to supporting Western Australians living with physical disabilities. For over 60 years, they’ve helped individuals lead more active, connected, and fulfilling lives through sport, recreation, and community engagement.

Try and meet them at Bendat Centre, Floreat, Perth. 7th June, 2pm start! 🏀🧑‍🦽🏆

At our Launch Party 7th June, Bendat Centre, you will be able to meet team! 🧗

is Perth’s first dedicated adaptive climbing group. The group is for people who have a disability that would like to try rock climbing in a supportive and inclusive way. Sports Physiologist, climbing coach, Dave Barretta and Occupational Therapist, Evelyn Sim, with a team of volunteers run regular groups in climbing gyms across the Perth Metropolitan area.

Come and meet them! ✨

💪 We’re thrilled that will be joining the ConnectUp Launch Party on 7 June at the Bendat Centre, Floreat! 🎉

Ability Gym creates a supportive, inclusive, and empowering environment where people with disability can improve their fitness, health, confidence, and movement skills through exercise, sport, and active participation. Their programs focus on making physical activity accessible, enjoyable, and social for everyone.

At the launch party, will run interactive “try-it” activity station, giving attendees the chance to get moving, try something new, and experience inclusive fitness in action.

✨ Connect with others
✨ Explore new activities
✨ Build confidence through movement
✨ Celebrate community and inclusion

Join us for a fun, active, and welcoming day! 💙

A new approach to movement.

supports inclusive, participation-focused physical activity that meets people where they at.

We are excited to share that the team from will be joining us at the ConnectUp Launch Party! 🥳

is dedicated to ensuring that people living with blindness or vision impairment across Western Australia can participate in sport and recreation in ways that are right for them.

Through supporting accessible sport, building the capacity of affiliated organisations, and promoting inclusion within the community, they help create opportunities that improve health, wellbeing, and connection.

Come along and meet the team at the Bendat Basketball Centre on 7 June.

Can’t wait to see you there!

You can use to:

🙋🏼‍♀️ Connect with people in nearby locations
💬 Chat and schedule in person meet-ups
🗓️ Create events and invite others to join
🏀 Find accessible physical activities in your local area
📩 Share your feedback about activities and places

🏹 Archery a sport for all, for life.

We are excited to introduce sports that will be joining us during launch party 🎉

7th June, Bendat Centre, Floreat, Perth 🚀

“Come and Try” sessions are designed for people who want to give archery a go without needing their own equipment. You will learn the basics of safety, technique, equipment, etiquette. It’s the perfect first step to get started in a welcoming environment ✨