The Toronto Workers Club (TWC) plans to demolish the only bowling green and tennis courts in our community to build more units.
The TWC 2024 Annual Report states the club’s short-term goal is to exceed members’ and guests’ expectations in facilities, products, and services. Their long-term objective is to provide the community with high-quality services in a safe and friendly environment, generating profits to reinvest into improved services and community support.
Despite these statements, TWC has directed the bowls and tennis clubs to wind up by June 2025. Both clubs are financially viable and self-sustaining. TWC is pushing for this deadline without lodging a DA with Council or consulting any community or club members.
Residents of the Elements retirement village will also lose access to these on-site activities—facilities they expected when buying their Villas.
TWC is a member-owned, not-for-profit organisation created to provide activities and facilities for the community. Removing bowls and tennis will impact our seniors, local schools, junior bowlers, and tennis players, who will lose these precious facilities forever.
Over 70 people attended a community meeting at The Hub on 4th March to discuss how to stop TWC’s plans. Sadly, no club representative attended. Many spoke passionately about the loss and challenged claims that the bowls green and tennis courts are underused. They are well utilised.
Over the years, TWC has already reduced facilities, removing two tennis courts and bowling greens. Now they’ve told financially healthy, well-attended clubs to close.
Elements residents who bought in when bowls and tennis were part of the lifestyle were not told they’d be removed. They now face years of construction and the possibility of their homes being overshadowed by a motel.
Please give your feedback to the Workers Club at enquiries@torontoworkersclub.com.au.
This is OUR club, OUR bowls green, OUR tennis courts. Our community deserves better. Once gone, these clubs—and what they bring—will be lost forever.
The TWC 2024 Annual Report states the club’s short-term goal is to exceed members’ and guests’ expectations in facilities, products, and services. Their long-term objective is to provide the community with high-quality services in a safe and friendly environment, generating profits to reinvest into improved services and community support.
Despite these statements, TWC has directed the bowls and tennis clubs to wind up by June 2025. Both clubs are financially viable and self-sustaining. TWC is pushing for this deadline without lodging a DA with Council or consulting any community or club members.
Residents of the Elements retirement village will also lose access to these on-site activities—facilities they expected when buying their Villas.
TWC is a member-owned, not-for-profit organisation created to provide activities and facilities for the community. Removing bowls and tennis will impact our seniors, local schools, junior bowlers, and tennis players, who will lose these precious facilities forever.
Over 70 people attended a community meeting at The Hub on 4th March to discuss how to stop TWC’s plans. Sadly, no club representative attended. Many spoke passionately about the loss and challenged claims that the bowls green and tennis courts are underused. They are well utilised.
Over the years, TWC has already reduced facilities, removing two tennis courts and bowling greens. Now they’ve told financially healthy, well-attended clubs to close.
Elements residents who bought in when bowls and tennis were part of the lifestyle were not told they’d be removed. They now face years of construction and the possibility of their homes being overshadowed by a motel.
Please give your feedback to the Workers Club at enquiries@torontoworkersclub.com.au.
This is OUR club, OUR bowls green, OUR tennis courts. Our community deserves better. Once gone, these clubs—and what they bring—will be lost forever.
- Maree Smith
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