Gosford RSL Club

Year Round Support For Teens In Crisis

In 2025, Gosford RSL expanded its community partnership with We Care Connect to create a structured, staff-led initiative supporting teens in crisis. What began as a Christmas appeal has evolved into a year round commitment responding directly to identified local need.
In October 2025, our Volunteer Squad packed 150 gift bundles at the charity warehouse before launching Baubles of Hope in venue. Members, guests and staff purchased two-dollar and five-dollar baubles, with funds directed toward teenage boys identified as under supported in seasonal giving. Volunteers then purchased and delivered requested items for distribution across the Central Coast.
Recognising that hardship extends beyond Christmas, the Club introduced Wrapped in Care, a winter appeal focused on practical essentials including jackets, blankets and school supplies.
Led by staff and supported by paid volunteer hours, this growing initiative combines partnership, visibility and structured annual planning to deliver practical support, dignity and hope to local young people doing it tough.

Holman Barnes Group West Ashfield

A Good Barbecue

Holman Barnes Group (HBG) and Wests Ashfield have a long and meaningful partnership with The Rev. Bill Crews Foundation, supporting people experiencing homelessness, poverty and hardship. In 2023, the Club deepened this commitment by launching a monthly Community BBQ, a staff‑led initiative that has become a valued and dependable event for guests who rely on the Foundation’s services.
Held on the third Wednesday of each month, the BBQ serves more than 200 guests with fresh food, conversation and dignity. Wests Ashfield funds all food, equipment and operational costs, while staff volunteers manage cooking, service and pack‑down — donating hundreds of volunteer hours each year. For many guests, the BBQ offers something they rarely experience: connection, warmth and a celebratory atmosphere.
The success of the program has expanded into additional annual support, including Easter activity days and Christmas hamper preparation. These events are embraced by staff, strengthening relationships and deepening the culture of compassion within the Club.
Through consistent presence, funding and hands‑on volunteering, Wests Ashfield demonstrates what meaningful community impact looks like — supporting not only basic needs, but restoring dignity, inclusion and hope for those doing it toughest.

Liverpool Catholic Club

Bringing Christmas Joy to Children

For many families facing hardship, Christmas can intensify feelings of stress and uncertainty. In 2025, Liverpool Catholic Club stepped in to support two separate initiatives so vulnerable children across the Liverpool region could experience the joy and excitement of the season.
Through the Department of Communities and Justice, the Club funded and personally prepared gifts for 50 children in out-of-home care. Each present was thoughtfully chosen, including for teenagers who are often overlooked, ensuring children experiencing instability or severe trauma had something special during Christmas.
Separately, the Club supported Community Café Outreach Service’s Christmas celebration by contributing funding so every child attending received a gift from Santa. For many families doing it tough, this removed the quiet worry of not being able to provide a present. Building on a partnership that has delivered more than $93,000 in support since 2022, Liverpool Catholic Club helped bring comfort, dignity and genuine joy to children when they needed it most.

Bankstown RSL

Honouring Those Who Served & Their Families

Bankstown RSL has long upheld a deep commitment to honouring and supporting Australia’s veterans, war widows and their families. In partnership with the Bankstown RSL Sub‑Branch, the Club provides year‑round social, emotional and practical support through inclusive initiatives that ensure no veteran is left behind. Complimentary access to facilities, meeting rooms and social spaces allows veterans to gather, share stories, remain connected and maintain a strong sense of purpose.
The Club proudly supports significant commemorations including ANZAC Day and Remembrance Day, hosting public services that bring together people of all ages to honour the sacrifices made by service personnel. These events strengthen intergenerational understanding, community unity and local pride.
Bankstown RSL also shows exceptional care for war widows through regular hospitality gestures, morning teas, luncheons and celebrations that reinforce their ongoing importance in the RSL family. Recognising that many veterans face disability or mental health challenges, the Club ensures accessibility, tailored support and pathways to specialist services through collaboration with welfare officers and health professionals.
For Bankstown RSL, supporting veterans is not an obligation — it is an honour. The Club stands as a guardian of legacy, a champion of inclusion, and a constant source of connection, respect and community belonging.

Bankstown Sports Club

Ability in Action!

Bankstown Sports Club is proud to partner with Disability Sports Australia (DSA) to create more accessible sporting opportunities for children and adults with disability across the Canterbury‑Bankstown region. Through an initial $16,778 ClubGRANTS investment, the Club funded two Abilities Unleashed Kids Programs and two volunteer workshops, giving local families access to inclusive sporting experiences many had never had before.
Abilities Unleashed is a free introductory program connecting people with disability to modified, supportive versions of mainstream sports. Delivered locally in collaboration with Bankstown Basketball Association and 12 participating schools, last year’s programs welcomed 311 participants who had the chance to try football, cricket, boccia, badminton, basketball, frame running, hockey, athletics and karate. Teachers praised the sessions for building confidence, connection and uncovering new strengths in students.
Bankstown Sports has now committed $20,000 to expand the program in 2026, delivering four additional Abilities Unleashed events across Canterbury‑Bankstown and Cumberland. The Club also partnered with DSA to upskill volunteers from 38 affiliated sporting clubs, helping them make their programs more accessible and inclusive.
This partnership is delivering real, measurable impact — opening pathways, removing barriers and ensuring people with disability can participate fully in local sport.

Bathurst RSL

Raising Hope with The Orchard Bathurst

Bathurst RSL Club is deeply committed to supporting women and children experiencing domestic and family violence. In 2025, the Club strengthened this commitment by implementing a comprehensive Domestic & Family Violence Action Plan for both staff and patrons. In creating the plan, the Club undertook extensive consultation with Plus Community and its emergency accommodation service, The Orchard Bathurst, gaining first-hand insight into the critical support the organisation provides.
To raise awareness and much‑needed funding for The Orchard Bathurst, the Club dedicated its annual Mother’s Day Online Raffle to the cause during Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Bathurst RSL covered all raffle expenses and secured $2,898 in donated prizes from 15 generous local businesses, adding a further $842 of its own. With coordinated social media promotion, radio sponsorship acknowledgements and marketing support, the initiative united local businesses and the community behind a vital service.
The raffle raised a total of $8,425 for The Orchard Bathurst, ensuring more women and children can access safety, shelter and support during crisis. Bathurst RSL’s leadership demonstrates what community‑driven action looks like — practical, compassionate and deeply meaningful.

Broken Hill Musicians Club

Championing Disadvantaged Youth in the Far West

In one of the most remote and disadvantaged regions of NSW, the Broken Hill Musicians Club has become a lifeline for young people through its powerful partnership with PCYC Broken Hill. With limited youth services, long travel distances, high financial stress and reduced access to structured programs, young people across Broken Hill, Wilcannia and Menindee often face barriers that urban communities rarely experience.
The Musicians Club stepped in to close that gap. Through ClubGRANTS and direct support, the Club enabled PCYC to deliver subsidised or free youth programs including driver education, school holiday activities, Fit for Life early‑intervention sessions, weekly sport and targeted school‑based support for high‑risk youth. PCYC staff travel more than 500km each week to reach isolated communities — access made possible through this partnership.
The Club also played a critical role in empowering Far West First Nations youth to represent the Barkindji Nation at Nations of Origin, covering accommodation and travel‑related support for participants who travelled up to 1,100km to reach Sydney. This ensured cultural pride, school engagement, leadership development and safe participation for young people who would otherwise miss out.
The Broken Hill Musicians Club has become a transformational force in one of NSW’s hardest‑to‑reach regions — proving that genuine community commitment can change the trajectory of young lives.

Cabravale Club Resort

Transformed for the Future, Built to Belong

For 100 years, Cabravale Club Resort has been a place of belonging. Founded in 1925 by returned servicemen seeking connection and support, the Club remains guided by that founding principle today: community thrives when no one is left behind. As the Club entered its centenary year and became Australia’s first integrated Club Resort, it made a deliberate commitment to expand — not change —i ts culture of inclusion.
Social inclusion is reflected daily across the Club’s shared spaces, where generations and cultures mix naturally. Few venues in western Sydney can match Cabravale’s ability to bring people together with such consistency and warmth. The Club continues to honour its veteran heritage through daily commemorations and dedicated memorial spaces, ensuring its origins remain respected and visible.
Cabravale’s long-standing partnership with Australian Unity’s Multicultural Respite Network provides weekly social support groups for more than 100 older people from Cambodian, Chinese and Middle Eastern backgrounds. Through in‑kind room hire, grants and culturally sensitive dining options, the Club helps reduce isolation and strengthen community connection.
Looking ahead, Cabravale is investing in youth wellbeing through its partnership with The Sebastian Foundation, bringing the Open Parachute mental‑health program to local students in 2026. Initiatives like the Club’s $20,000 Wishing Tree further demonstrate its belief that inclusion is built through kindness, dignity and everyday acts of care.

Club Central Hurstville

Strengthening Community Through Connection & Care

Community Connect, an initiative of Georges River Life Care (GRLC), has become a lifeline for more than 500 people experiencing hardship across the Georges River region. Supported by Club Central Hurstville through a Category 1 ClubGRANT and monthly volunteering, the program blends food relief, social connection, case‑managed support and long‑term empowerment pathways to help individuals and families stabilise, rebuild and thrive.
What began as a COVID‑19 response has evolved into a multi‑layered, community‑led model of care. Every fortnight, GRLC distributes around 120 pantry hampers and 100 fresh food hampers, responding to demand that has grown by over 400% since inception. But the impact extends far beyond essential food: Sunday gatherings with children’s activities, financial counselling, advocacy and personalised support help people move from crisis into sustained community belonging.
Club Central Hurstville plays a pivotal role in this growth, contributing $50,000 in 2025/26 to expand food‑rescue capacity and providing ongoing hands‑on support through monthly volunteer‑run BBQ lunches. In 2025, 80% of relief recipients also engaged in Community Connect programs — a powerful shift from transactional assistance to meaningful participation.
Community Connect is dignity in action: practical support, genuine connection and long‑term resilience built through partnership, compassion and community strength.

Club Lithgow

The Power of Friendship Day

Club Lithgow's Friendship Day began with a simple but powerful idea: create a welcoming, safe and joyful space where people of all abilities could come together, connect and belong. What started as a small gathering of 30 disability clients and their carers has, over just three years, grown into a beloved annual celebration embraced by local bowling volunteers, disability services and the broader community.
Hosted by the Club, Friendship Day invites participants to learn the game of lawn bowls in a supportive environment, guided by patient volunteers who coach, encourage and cheer every success — often with a few victory dances along the way. After bowling, everyone shares a club‑provided lunch, prizes and plenty of laughter. Each year features a fun theme, with appearances from favourites such as the Easter Bunny and Santa adding extra excitement.
The event has now outgrown its original function room, with multiple disability services requesting to join future celebrations. Friendship Day has become a highlight on community calendars — a testament to the power of inclusion, kindness and shared experience. It demonstrates what can happen when a club opens its doors, its heart and its greens to everyone.

Club Maitland City

Hope Has a Home with Carrie's Place

Club Maitland City, through its charitable arm the CMC Foundation, has forged a powerful and compassionate partnership with Carrie’s Place, supporting women and children escaping domestic and family violence across the Maitland region. Since its inception in 2023, the Foundation has contributed more than $123,000 in direct financial support, alongside extensive in‑kind assistance, volunteer engagement and community advocacy.
The partnership began with a meaningful first donation of essential whitegoods for a transitional home, enabling a local mother and her children to escape violence safely. Since then, the Foundation has supported winter appeals, donation drives, Christmas programs, food assistance and emergency vouchers — ensuring families receive help when they need it most. In 2025, the Foundation acted swiftly during Beyond Bank’s Double Donation Campaign, turning a $10,000 contribution into $20,000, helping raise more than $30,000 in 48 hours.
Most notably, in September 2025, the Foundation committed $80,000 to fully furnish three new crisis‑accommodation units provided to Carrie’s Place, ensuring women and children arriving with nothing have immediate access to safe, dignified, welcoming spaces.
This partnership represents long‑term, unwavering commitment — providing safety, stability and hope, one family at a time.

Club Quirindi

Club Cares to Be Inclusive

Club Quirindi is proud to champion community wellbeing through its growing partnership with Quirindi Inclusive Care, a local charity supporting vulnerable, isolated and mobility‑restricted residents. What began as a simple act of kindness — offering the Club’s courtesy bus each Monday to help residents attend group lunches and activities — has evolved into a vital, region‑wide outreach service.
Within just six months, demand expanded beyond the Quirindi township, prompting the Club to extend the service to Willow Tree, Wallabadah and Werris Creek. This ensures that lack of transport, distance or mobility challenges never prevent community members from staying socially connected.
In addition to transport support, Club Quirindi strengthens the charity through weekly Sunday raffles and fortnightly Friday raffles, providing a reliable fundraising stream that enables Quirindi Inclusive Care to sustain and grow its programs.
Together, these initiatives create a lifeline for vulnerable residents, helping them maintain independence, build friendships, feel supported and be regularly checked in on by familiar faces.
Club Quirindi is honoured to stand alongside Quirindi Inclusive Care — fostering a stronger, more inclusive and more connected community for all.

DOOLEYS Lidcombe Catholic Club

Partnership in Action, Dignity in Practice

What began as a simple discussion between DOOLEYS and St Vincent de Paul in late 2024 has grown into a highly effective, place‑based wellbeing program that now supports some of the most vulnerable residents in the Cumberland region. Since March 2025, the weekly program — delivered in partnership with Cumberland Council, St Vincent de Paul, 4Voices and DOOLEYS — has assisted close to 1,000 people experiencing homelessness, food insecurity and social isolation.
Designed around flexibility and dignity, the program brings essential support directly to where people are. St Vincent de Paul provides case management, housing pathways, crisis supplies and food support, while 4Voices offers mentoring for women, hot drinks and digital access for job searches and essential online services. DOOLEYS contributes volunteers, resources, knitted winter items and a substantial pub‑style meal once a month — prepared by staff through the Helping Hands program using paid volunteer leave.
The program also delivers preventative health outcomes through partnerships providing on‑site dental, optical and medical checks. Its strength lies in sustained collaboration and a commitment to meeting immediate needs while building long‑term stability, social connection and wellbeing for people doing it tough.

Holman Barnes Group West Ashfield

Let’s Get Going! Pathways to Independence

Holman Barnes Group, through Wests Ashfield Leagues Club, has built a deeply meaningful six‑year partnership with Let’s Get Going, a charity delivering inclusive sport and wellbeing programs for neurodivergent adults. Central to this partnership is the Supported Work‑Experience Program, which provides young adults with varied abilities the chance to participate in a real hospitality workplace — safely, confidently and with genuine support.
Participants Danielle and Ash are welcomed into Club operations and guided through hands‑on tasks including food preparation, customer service etiquette, communication and teamwork. For many, this is their first exposure to a professional environment. Families consistently describe the experience as transformational, building confidence, routine, social connection and dignity — critical stepping stones toward independence and long‑term participation in community life.
Wests Ashfield provides all support in‑kind, including structured placements, dedicated mentors, staff time, workplace resources and consistent weekly engagement. The program has expanded carefully and deliberately, deepening social inclusion and strengthening pathways for young adults who may otherwise face isolation.
This long‑standing partnership demonstrates Wests Ashfield’s belief that meaningful community engagement requires more than funding — it requires action, inclusion and sustained commitment.

Hornsby RSL Club

Superstar Sally ― Two Decades of Inclusion

At Hornsby RSL, social inclusion is not a slogan — it is a daily promise. For 20 years, that promise has been embodied by one remarkable team member: Sally. Since joining the Club in April 2006 through a partnership with Jobsupport, Sally has become a beloved and essential part of the Hornsby RSL family and a powerful example of meaningful, long‑term disability inclusion.
Sally’s warmth, consistency and dedication have shaped the member experience for two decades, particularly in The Courtyard, where regulars know her as a friendly, familiar face. Her employment has influenced more than operations — it has helped define the Club’s culture.
Disability inclusion is a pillar of Hornsby RSL’s Community Program, reflected in partnerships with Guide Dogs Australia, CNS Precision Assembly and Rainbow Club. Through Jobsupport, Sally receives tailored workplace assistance, enabling independence, confidence and long‑term stability.
For staff, she is a colleague and friend. For members, she represents the welcoming spirit of the Club. For the broader community, her 20‑year milestone demonstrates that true inclusion is not a program — it is a relationship built on commitment, opportunity and belonging.
Hornsby RSL proudly celebrates Sally’s extraordinary contribution and the inclusive culture she continues to inspire.

Liverpool Catholic Club

Breaking Barriers on the Ice

Liverpool Catholic Club is committed to ensuring children with disabilities can access safe, inclusive recreational opportunities within the Liverpool region. Through its Inclusive Skating Program and targeted holiday initiatives, the Club removes barriers to participation.
In July 2025, the Club supported the Skate Ability / Minifit Day for Visually Impaired Children at the LCC Ice Rink. Delivered by Skate Ability, Minifit Australia and Guide Dogs NSW/ACT, the program combined inclusive ice skating with adaptive small-group activities. Through $4,000 in ClubGrants funding, specialist coaches provided hands-on support for 16 participating children.
The initiative builds on weekly Inclusive Skating sessions, established in 2020, which have supported more than 130 individual skaters, alongside Come & Try events engaging hundreds more families, strengthening access and opportunity across the community.

Moama Bowling Club

Community Wheels Turning Young Lives Toward Opportunity

Moama Bowling Club has reaffirmed its deep commitment to youth opportunity, regional safety and social inclusion through its renewed investment in the TAC L2P learner driver mentor program. In 2025, the Club donated a new vehicle to replace the original car it funded a decade ago — a vehicle that enabled hundreds of supervised driving sessions and helped young people overcome one of the biggest barriers to independence: access to a safe car and an available supervising driver.
Delivered locally through the Campaspe Cohuna LLEN, the L2P program supports young people aged 16–21 who face genuine obstacles to completing Victoria’s 120 required driving hours. By providing a reliable program vehicle, Moama Bowling Club ensures learners continue gaining structured, safe driving experience — supporting pathways to employment, apprenticeships, training and social participation in a region where public transport is limited.
The program is powered by dedicated volunteer mentors who guide learners through every stage of their journey, building confidence, judgement and responsibility. Each hour completed in the L2P vehicle contributes to safer roads, stronger futures and more connected communities.
Moama Bowling Club’s leadership demonstrates how targeted, practical community investment can remove barriers, empower young people and create lasting regional impact.

Moorebank Sports Club

White Cane Mingle ― Empowering Independence Through Community

Moorebank Sports Club’s White Cane Mingle is creating meaningful social inclusion for people who are blind or have low vision, offering a safe, welcoming and ongoing community space designed in partnership with Cocky Guides and Sensory Tourism Australia. Developed in response to the isolation and barriers often faced by people with vision loss, the initiative aims to break down practical and social hurdles while fostering confidence, connection and participation.
The inaugural Mingle, held in November 2025, featured a guided orientation tour of the venue, followed by morning tea with guest speakers from Blind Sport & Recreation NSW/ACT and Cocky Guides. Since then, additional events — including one coinciding with International Day of People with Disabilities — have strengthened the group’s connections, with many attendees now staying for social lunches and forming new friendships. Sporties also supports transport needs through its courtesy bus and has raised additional funds for Cocky Guides through community raffles.
Participants report increased confidence and a renewed sense of possibility, while partners praise the Club for creating an inclusive community hub. With regular events planned throughout the year, White Cane Mingle reflects Moorebank Sports Club’s long‑term commitment to proactive, practical and compassionate inclusion.

North Ryde RSL

Creating Pathways from Crisis to Belonging

North Ryde RSL has taken a bold, compassionate and comprehensive approach to supporting victim‑survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV), ensuring that no one in crisis must face their journey alone. In 2025, the Club contributed more than $786,333 through ClubGRANTS and community support, with a deliberate and strategic focus on DFV prevention, crisis assistance and long‑term recovery.
Partnerships sit at the heart of this work. Through Escabags, the Club provides emergency assistance and hosts a permanent on‑site collection and distribution point, supported by staff volunteering to pack essential items. With RiZeUp, North Ryde RSL has helped fully furnish seven homes for families leaving violence — transforming empty properties into safe, dignified and stable environments. Programs delivered with the Be Unstoppable Foundation and The Northern Centre strengthen emotional resilience, rebuild confidence and reduce the risk of returning to unsafe situations.
DFV awareness training is embedded across all staff, ensuring compassionate, informed responses. Visible initiatives such as DV Safe Phone, Purple Shirt Friday and sponsoring the Make A Stand Against Abuse Walk reinforce the Club’s leadership.
North Ryde RSL demonstrates what community responsibility looks like — providing safety, dignity and connection from crisis to recovery.

Parra Leagues

Sanctuary & Strength for LGBTIQA+ Refugees

Walk On Walk Strong is a lifeline for LGBTIQA+ refugees and asylum seekers — people who have fled persecution only to face new barriers of isolation, trauma and systemic exclusion in Australia. Through its partnership with STARTTS, Parra Leagues has played a pivotal role in strengthening this groundbreaking program, enabling culturally safe, trauma‑informed support for one of the most vulnerable communities in the country.
ClubGRANTS funding ensured the delivery of a transformative multi‑day retreat in May 2025, bringing together participants from more than a dozen cultural backgrounds for healing, connection, capacity building and leadership development. The project delivers peer‑led support groups, casework, psychosocial care, inclusive practice training and co‑designed resources. More than 3,000 service providers have now received inclusive practice training from lived experience trainers, reshaping systems and improving safety across the sector.
Participants consistently report profound outcomes — improved mental health, stronger confidence, cultural pride and the ability to live authentically without fear. With Parra’s ongoing support, Walk On Walk Strong continues to grow its advocacy, training programs and storytelling initiatives, helping ensure every participant feels seen, valued and included.

Revesby Workers Club

Inclusivity in Action - Empowering Every Ability

Revesby Workers’ has strengthened its long-standing commitment to disability inclusion through more than $200,000 in community investment, delivering accessible infrastructure, therapeutic programs and inclusive sporting initiatives that improve the lives of children and adults with disability across the Canterbury–Bankstown region.
Across 2024–2025, the Club funded two major school projects totalling $155,300, including a purpose‑built inclusive playground at Broderick Gillawarna School and a full hydrotherapy pool redevelopment at Caroline Chisholm School. These upgrades have transformed daily learning, therapy, mobility and wellbeing for nearly 200 high‑support students.
Revesby Workers’ also delivers ongoing inclusive programs — including adaptive fitness through MiniFit, modified football and netball sessions with Football NSW and Netball NSW, and expressive weekly music therapy across three specialist schools.
Beyond childhood programs, the Club supports adults with disability through tailored life‑skills, sensory, cooking, sports and wellbeing initiatives delivered with partners including Scope Australia, ABI Services and Rainbow Club.
More than 350 individuals benefit annually from Revesby Workers’ sustained, strategic commitment to accessibility, dignity and opportunity — ensuring people of all abilities are valued, visible and supported to thrive.

Ryde Eastwood Leagues Club

Protecting Our Community When It Matters Most

Ryde‑Eastwood Leagues Club has taken a bold, compassionate and deeply community‑centred approach to supporting victim‑survivors of domestic and family violence (DFV), positioning itself as a visible, trusted and proactive source of safety. In 2025, the Club set a new benchmark by allocating Club‑owned residential properties as short‑term transitional accommodation for individuals and families escaping violence — secure, fully furnished homes designed to restore dignity, stability and hope.
Delivered in partnership with specialist DFV organisations and community housing providers, these residences offer immediate refuge while connecting families to case management, emotional support and long‑term housing pathways. Demand has been strong and immediate, prompting the Club to expand the program with additional homes in 2026.
This housing initiative is part of a broader DFV response that includes distributing Ecabags, participating in the Make A Stand Walk, hosting DV Safe Phone collections, supporting prevention programs across local sporting clubs and delivering specialist DFV training to frontline staff and managers. As a late‑night venue and key community hub, Ryde‑Eastwood has also responded directly to real‑time crises, providing emergency protection until police and support services arrived.
Ryde‑Eastwood Leagues Club demonstrates what true community responsibility looks like — an unwavering commitment to safety, dignity and inclusion.

Seven Hills RSL

Standing Strong with Families

Seven Hills RSL is deeply proud to support Save Our Sons Duchenne Foundation, Australia’s peak body for Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy. These rare, progressive genetic conditions primarily affect boys and place immense emotional, physical and financial strain on thousands of families. For the Club, supporting Save Our Sons is an act of inclusion, compassion and solidarity with those facing some of life’s toughest challenges.
Each year, Save Our Sons hosts the national Walk for Duchenne, uniting families and supporters from every corner of Australia. Seven Hills RSL General Manager Joseph Bayssari has walked with them year after year, raising more than $160,000 and inspiring countless others to join the cause. His dedication reflects the Club’s belief that no family should face Duchenne or Becker muscular dystrophy alone.
In 2025, the Club was deeply honoured when founder Elie Eid visited Seven Hills–Toongabbie RSL to present a framed commemoration marking the 100th anniversary of the Victoria Cross — recognition of the Club’s meaningful, ongoing support.
Seven Hills RSL is proud to stand beside Save Our Sons, walking together toward increased awareness, improved care and hope for a future free from Duchenne and Becker muscular dystrophy.

Tuncurry Beach Bowling Club

A Place to Belong

Tuncurry Beach Bowling Club is proud to be formally recognised by Dementia Australia as an organisation “working towards becoming dementia‑friendly". This milestone reflects the Club’s commitment to building a more inclusive, respectful and compassionate community for people living with dementia, their families and their care partners.
Guided by Dementia Australia’s Dementia‑Friendly Communities Program, the Club implemented a tailored action plan shaped through direct consultation with individuals living with dementia. Over the past year, staff, members and community groups have participated in dementia‑awareness workshops such as Dementia Friends and It Starts With You, helping reduce stigma and deepen understanding. Venue improvements — including clearer signage, improved lighting and staff training in communication and customer assistance — have enhanced accessibility and comfort for visitors.
The Club’s leadership has also encouraged local businesses to adopt dementia‑friendly practices, sparking broader community awareness across the Forster‑Tuncurry region. Families now report feeling more supported, and staff feel empowered to provide compassionate, informed assistance.

Twin Towns

A Bus For All Abilities

A $140,000 donation from Twinnies Gives and the Twin Towns Services Community Foundation has enabled Banora Point High School to purchase a new 25-seater bus.
In just a few short months, the impact of the new bus has been profound.
The most significant benefits have been experienced by the school’s Special Education Unit. Access to dedicated transport has opened the door to vital off-site learning, weekly work placements and swimming lessons — opportunities that are essential to building life skills and real-world confidence.
The bus has also eased financial pressure on families, who previously shared transport expenses for excursions and work placements, costs that exceeded $10,000 annually.
Most importantly, the initiative has strengthened independence, inclusion and confidence for students with additional needs.
Beyond its practical value, the bus represents a long-standing partnership between Twin Towns and the Special Education Unit, built over eight years of collaboration. It is both a well-used community asset and a mobile reminder of how local clubs support their community.

Wollongong Golf Club

A Legacy of Service Preserved Through Partnerships

For nearly a century, City Diggers has been the spiritual home of Wollongong’s veterans — a place of camaraderie, remembrance and community since 1929. From its origins after World War I to the opening of its grand 1935 clubhouse by Prime Minister Joseph Lyons, the venue has long stood as a living war memorial where generations of servicemen and women have sought support, advocacy and connection.
When financial pressures threatened the Club’s future, the City of Wollongong RSL Sub‑Branch safeguarded its legacy through a 2004 Deed of Provisions, ensuring that no matter who operated the venue, City Diggers would remain their home. That protection continued in 2021 when Wollongong Golf Club stepped in, honouring and preserving the Club’s traditions, identity and veteran‑focused culture.
Today, a remarkable partnership between the Sub‑Branch, Wollongong Golf Club and the Globe Project developers is giving City Diggers a new life. A modern venue bearing its historic name will reopen on‑site, with a 40‑year commitment to honouring its heritage.
City Diggers’ spirit endures — its future rebuilt, its legacy preserved and its doors set to welcome veterans and families for generations to come.