It has taken a year to build, but the Jamberoo Bowling Club is now more family friendly thanks to the hard work of volunteers who pitched in to construct a playground.
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Now it’s up, the club has welcomed the community to a family fun day on Sunday, involving barefoot bowls, a BBQ and face painting.
“We’re getting a few new housing estates here so we’re hoping to make the place a bit more family friendly,” Jo Woodward said.
Jamberoo local John Holloway was gifted with the playground last year, when a charity failed to pick it up, and mobilised his mates to move it, piece by piece, from where it was stored in Sydney to Jamberoo.
“It was promised to a charity, and they hadn’t picked it up, it was a pretty big job to collect it,” Jo said.
“Westconnex said if it’s not gone by Christmas it’s all yours.”
The gravel, mesh, poles and fences were donated and the mats were the only thing they had to buy, $6000 funded by a number of raffles and BBQs.
Club members and Jamberoo locals laid the concrete and constructed the playground, and it has passed all of the checks required.
