Link Club – ALBURY RSL SUB BRANCH – 527 Wilson Street Albury

The Link RSL Day Club

Every Thursday

10am to 2pm

The Link Day Club is a not for profit community organisation run by a keen group of volunteers at ANZAC House, 527 Wilson St, Albury NSW

Our activities include gentle exercise for senior Residents from Albury/Wodonga plus quizzes and games along with guest speakers/entertainers and movie days.

Morning tea and lunch are provided for a nominal fee and local transport is available for members. ANZAC house has disabled facilities.

New members and volunteers are always welcome, just drop in on a Thursday and have a talk to the volunteers and the members.

Please note:- Members do NOT have to be veterans or RSL members, our club is open to everybody.

Please contact

Danny Coordinator

Phone 0477 224 751 linkclubdanny@gmail.com

Jan Administrator

Phone 0418 418 159

email:- dayclub@alburyrsl.org.au

A Brief History

Day Clubs were established in NSW in 1977 as a joint venture between the RSL (Returned and Services League of Australia, (NSW Branch) and the Australian Government Department of Veterans’ Affairs (DVA), NSW Office. It is sponsored by the RSL and supported by the DVA,

Who runs the Club?

The club is supported solely by volunteers from the community. Anyone is welcome to volunteer. Training is provided.

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The Link Day Club recently celebrated 18 years of continuous operation

A Little Bit of History

On the 4^th October 2007 the Link RSL Day Club began its first day of operation.

Prior to this there had been meetings and an advertising effort to make people aware of the commencement of the club.

On the first day there were 49 present.

One of those members was Coral and another was Danny.

Joy joined on the 5th June 2008

In those days the Club days were held at Legacy House as the kitchen at ANZAC House was not up to scratch.

Rent was being charged at Legacy House and over the years this began to grow. We were being charged for the use of the hall plus extra to use the kitchen. It became necessary to move to ANZAC House.

To prepare the sandwiches a table was put up in the centre of the kitchen.

In 2016 the President of the Sub Branch Graham Docksey obtained a large grant which was used to demolish and rebuild the kitchen at ANZAC House thus making the kitchen and all facilities available to the Day Club. This was done over the Christmas break with minimal disruption to the Club.

In 2017 Danny became the Coordinator and Jan became administrator when the Club coordinator and all Kitchen volunteer staff retired, with the exception of Judith Crawford who then became kitchen coordinator. Judith recently retired and Akuien Deng with help from Ken Anderson looks after the kitchen