CEO REPORT

I would like to begin by saying how incredibly proud I am of our team, our Board and all of our associated sport and community groups. Together, we are navigating the uncertainty of a once-in-a- lifetime pandemic and will no doubt continue to do so for some time, while always remaining true to our mission to Make A Difference.

I’ll admit the past two years have been the most challenging of my 30-year career at Bankstown Sports. It began with a major cost-cutting exercise in 2019, which resulted in an overhaul of our operations, including a staff restructure.

Then COVID hit, and we were forced to close all of our clubs and stand down almost our entire employee roster, with no guarantee of when we would reopen.

But, as they say – what goes down must come up, and the day we were able to reopen our venues in June 2020, was definitely one of the best days of my career.

During the months that followed, we reached some major milestones with new developments at our venues, and we had some fantastic achievements within our team. We welcomed Advanced Health Medical Centre, Macquarie Heart Bankstown, Mindwise Health and Wellbeing, and Amcal Pharmacy to the Flinders Centre. We opened Al Aseel and Helmut’s Haus at Bankstown Sports, we introduced Burger Box at Birrong Sports, and Smokin’ Acres has become so popular it now supplies smoked meats to several of our venues, as well as take-away packages for selfcatered parties.

MARK CONDI

CEO

We renovated the former Bankstown Sports administration offices to create new community meeting rooms for our associated sport and community groups to utilise.

And perhaps, the icing on the cake has been the completion of the Lady Banks Rooftop Bar on Level 10 of the Flinders Centre. Due to a second industrywide lockdown in June 2021 due to COVID, we were unable to celebrate the Grand Opening of the venue as planned.

The most recent lockdown has been another huge blow for our industry but we will continue to support our community as best we can.

MICHAEL CLANCY

Executive General Manager

“Michael has been with the Bankstown Sports Group for 22 years”

Leadership transition

It is timely to announce plans for the next phase of leadership for the Bankstown Sports Group.

After 30 years with our organisation, I have decided that we need to start building our senior management team, and share some of the responsibility, allowing me to focus on the big picture and deliver our 10-year plan.

Executive General Manager, Michael Clancy, has been endorsed by the Board of Directors to lead Bankstown Sports Club, and I couldn’t think of a better person to take over the reins.

Michael has been with the Bankstown Sports Group for 22 years, having started his career as a useful, collecting glasses and cleaning ashtrays. He has been the General Manager of our associated venues for the last few years, and is across the operations of all of our clubs.

Through the COVID shutdown, Michael assisted with the closure of our venues and was the sounding board for me when I needed to implement many of the changes we have in place today.

I wish Michael all the best as he takes on this exciting new challenge, and I’m confident we have the right executive team in place to support him.