WORKERS SPORTS VACCINATION HUB

While the Blacktown Workers Club Group venues were shutdown for our usual activities of delivering our members and guests a range of food, beverage and entertainment wrapped up with a dose of superior customer service, our Sports Club opened its doors with a new purpose.

During a time when Blacktown was designated as a venue of concern and its residents experienced heavy lockdown restrictions, the Blacktown community rallied together and began to break records for vaccination rates, despite no mass vaccination hubs being located nearby.

Part of this was thanks to the Blacktown Vaccination Outreach Program, through NSW Health and along with driving force, Stephen Bali MP. Blacktown Workers Club Group was honoured to be selected to take part in the program.

Workers Sports was transformed into a vaccination hub for a NSW Health Pfizer vaccination team for 10 days through September and October. The management and operations team of BWCG and Workers Sports donated time to the cause, assisting with marketing, booking in vaccinations and operating the hub within the required Covid-19 safe regulations.

Over the initial four days, the team assisted NSW Health in providing Pfizer vaccinations to 400 residents of the Blacktown community, aged 16 years and up. It was extremely rewarding for the team. They came away with stories of vulnerable residents that hadn’t had the opportunity to access the vaccine before, now able to have it in a comfortable, safe environment of their local club.

Those four days of first dose vaccinations were then followed by the schedule second dose a few weeks later. Workers Sports were then invited again to open for another set of dates, which saw the venue closed for half a day during the first week of reopen.

The Workers Sports Vaccination Hub is an example of the Blacktown Workers Club Group stepping up during times of crisis to assist those in our local community, to improve quality of life, and to provide leadership and connection.