Member Services & Facilities Report

An excellent all-round year developed with no COVID-19 restrictions affecting our operations therefore achieving our planned objectives.

Tuesday Response Group

To the many and various Repairs, Maintenance and upgrades required to ensure our club facilities are to the required standard for member activities, player preparation and administration operations is the task undertaken by our TRG members.

Our crew - Basil Fuller (organiser) Colin Button / Graham Clark / Kevin Hill / Rob Nylander/ Angelo Porcaro / Jim Simmons / Kevin Smyth / Fritz Vanirsen & Graeme Wilson, all multi skilled to undertake various aspects of their weekly involvement. The club acknowledges and thanks the TRG members for their continued relationship assisting club operations including the retirement after many years of service - Keith Stone and Mick Symons. The TRG also assisted with the clubs Major Raffle with the distribution of all associated tickets / marketing and follow up for returns and the preparation of the drawing presentation.

Club Major Raffle

This annual fundraising project gives members the opportunity to partner the club financially underwriting the support of our community junior clubs and country academies development programs for young district players. Results this year were again encouraging with our development areas benefitting financially to extend their operations. The support of our metropolitan junior clubs and our members is acknowledged as an important feature in this successful project. Thanks are recorded to the many sponsors of this event and their continued support of our endeavours in relation to community junior football development.

Functions

A general increase in club and outside functions guided improved returns being achieved within our Social Club operations. The club promotion of this facility was a contributing factor with this result and will be continued to develop more business opportunities. Noted and successful club events included Outridge Medal, Taylor Medal, Life Members function, NAIDOC presentation and the popular Ladies Day. Presidents home luncheons acknowledged our sponsors, membership groups, junior football administration, coterie groups and special award recipients.

Acknowledgements

The ‘Handsome Stranger’ coffee van provides a popular service to members on match days, and we acknowledge Kitch and his staff for their availability. We thank club caterers Country Kitchen for providing a varied and popular match day food selection for members and guests. As well as Barefoot Entertainment (Brad and Mandi Parker) for assisting in game day activations and providing food trucks as an innovation WAFL service.

Thanks to McKenzie Sheppard for his professional management of our social and functions facility successfully promoting our venue and fulfilling members expectations. We now look forward to successful planning for our 2023 challenges.

Basil Fuller

Board Director