We need help!

There is a lot of work to do to get the club open and we would love your help. In the coming weeks we will host working bees as well as offer volunteer opportunities. If you’ve got skills or enthusiasm, we would love to connect with you.

Volunteering is a great way to get to know your community, while helping to create a great space for your community to enjoy. The more members who contribute ideas and get involved at the club will help bring us closer to our goal of a stronger, more connected Moorooka.

Bar staff

Are you happy to do a bar shift now and again? If meeting and serving your community is up your alley, please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

Greens Maintenance

In October we were successful in securing a grant to return one of the greens to social bowling standard. We have been lucky enough to meet a local expert who has agreed to help us restore the green. We are looking for a bunch of volunteers to help with the restoration across the next six months.

We are also looking for volunteer/s to regularly mow the other two greens and the grass that surrounds the club.

If gorgeous grass is your thing, please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

Storage Shed working bee

We have a dusty shed that needs help! We are looking for someone who can fix/replace the roller doors and volunteers to pressure clean the shed, tidy it up and help with storage solutions.

If tidying and cleaning is your forte please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

Gardening Club

The Clubhouse Moorooka is fortunate enough to have lots of gardens to nurture and grow. We would like to form a gardening club which tends to our rose bushes (which we understand were planted in memory of past members), along with creating new garden designs and tending to these.

If growing things is your thing, please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

Events management

We are looking for people to assist with our opening event. You don’t have to be an events expert, but if you are willing to lend a hand on the day or in the lead up, please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

Construction of high-bars and trellis frame

We have fallen in love with high-bars with gardens in the centre which we spied at the Petersham Bowls Club. We would love some handy folk to bring their tools to the club and help construct these.

To create more shade we also fancy creating a trellis for vines to grow on, much like the one in Koala Community Garden.

We are looking for someone to design and oversee construction and some handy folk to help. If you're skilled in design or handy with tools, please fill out this form and we will be in touch.

Gift registry aka good donations!

Like a wedding gift registry, except in line with our sustainability goals, we are looking for pre-loved items with plenty of life left in them.

Please note, we don’t need heaps of the following and we don’t want to be overwhelmed with stuff we can’t use or store.

If you have anything to gift, please get in touch, email theclubhousemoorooka@gmail.com with the subject line: GIFT and a description and photo of your donation.

• Goods or services that could be contributed to a raffle

• Trestle tables

• Large eskies

• Gazebos

• Outdoor kids play equipment (ride on toys, climbing frames, toddler busy board etc)

• Indoor kids toys that can be easily sanitised

• Board games

• Commercial grade wine and water glasses

• Commercial shade sails / umbrellas

• Commercial grade chairs and tables (we have picked up some beauties from demo jobs)

• Gardening equipment

• Plants for hanging pots

• Recycled hardwood timber

• Children’s high chairs, with straps and are easy to clean (no padding)

• Quality paint brushes

• High pressure washer

• Lawn mower

We will continue to update the list

Christmas came early to The Clubhouse

In the week leading up to Christmas we were feeling the festive spirit; The Clubhouse was gifted $870 from Cromwell Property Group and we finally received the keys to the club (one year after finding out our tender was successful!).

On Christmas Eve, Lesley, a local community member, messaged us to explain she had nominated The Clubhouse Moorooka as an organisation Cromwell employees could choose to donate to in the lead up to Christmas. Cromwell also contributed as well. We were blown away by Cromwell and their employee's generosity. Thanks Lesley!

On 21 December we finally received keys to the club. It took a year and a day of negotiations and works by Council (which aren’t complete yet) to get to this point. It was definitely a milestone to celebrate!

As a result of the negotiations with Council we are pleased to report the Main Bar in the building has a new cold room and bar flooring, with a bar frame coming soon (it’s our job to fit it out). The Dining Hall has new ceiling tiles and will have new carpet soon. The kiosk (which will serve The Garden Bar) has had the cold room removed and due to the floor falling away underneath, it also has new flooring and walls.

We would like to thank locals James from JDA Co and Shaun from All So Cool for quickly swinging into action and expertly guiding us in this space.

The Main Bar - cold room constructed, with doors to be cut.

A view from the kiosk out to The Garden Bar

Earlier this year we were successful in two grants, a Federal Stronger Communities Grant which has funded a new dishwasher in the kiosk and some chairs and tables for The Garden Bar, as well as a Lord Mayor’s Better Suburbs Grant, which will fund the restoration of one of our greens to social bowling standard (see our volunteering opportunities for more information).

Now that we have the keys to the building we are looking to opening the venue in late January. Watch this space for opening details and volunteering opportunities to make it a reality.

Check out more construction photos on our instagram feed: https://www.instagram.com/theclubhousemoorook