Letter from the Club Chairman – Re: Club Kitchen & Food Offering

Dear Members,

Rolly and his catering team have finished up in the Club’s kitchen.

The Club was only notified this was happening a bit earlier in the day, yesterday (12 March).

For the Club’s upcoming booked functions and events that are due over the next few weeks, Michael (the Club’s acting GM) will be in contact with event organisers to work through with each booking to provide suitable, alternative, food catering options.

Otherwise, unfortunately, as a result of yesterday’s sudden departures, but only temporarily, the Club’s normal daily dining will be suspended, and the kitchen will be closed for a deep clean.

Be assured that the Club will be taking all appropriate steps to source and select a suitable replacement for its in-house food and catering offering – with that to cover daily dining-in, through to Club events and function bookings – all with the best interest of the Club and its members and guests uppermost in mind.

In the meantime, our first-class Bar service and dedicated team will be carrying on undeterred and uninterrupted!

Leo Macpherson

Chairman 

Notice of Board Appointments of two new Directors

On behalf of the Board, I am pleased to inform members of the appointment of two new Directors to the Board of the Club – Ken Stevens and John Bardsley.

With the Club’s Administration having been ended last December, and the Club now being able to confidently focus on what lies ahead, the Board has taken the opportunity to lift its directorship stocks with two highly experienced and skilled existing Club members.

The Board voted unanimously to invite Ken and John to lend in their knowledge, experience, skills and acumen to the benefit of the Club, each by way of a Board-appointed Directorship for up to 3 years.

John is a recently retired 36+ year career tax Partner of major accounting firm, KPMG. He will lend his considerable knowledge and skills, in particular, towards the Club’s accounting, financial, legal, governance and compliance requirements, and overlay that with his deep experience in all manner of operating businesses as well as bringing forth his budding and rapidly developing lawn bowling skill-set!

Ken will already be known to many members.

Having stepped away from a previous life as an International Marketing Executive with a major US Motion Picture Studio, Ken reinvented as a private prestige property developer in Sydney, setting industry records in that space.

Ken will bring his forthright, can-do approach to all things, and fresh eyes and ideas to the Club’s existing and future operations and its marketing.

The Board is grateful to both gentlemen for stepping up and the giving of their time and effort to the Club, and we very much look forward to their input as the Club moves forward.

Leo Macpherson

Chairman