CLUB LIFE
INTERCLUB • VOLUME 22, ISSUE 1 - 2016
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Club a hub for community events Palmerston North Cossie The Palmerston North Cosmopolitan Club is further cementing its place in the community with a range of important events, including ANZAC Day commemorations, scheduled to take place this year, says club manager Desiree Garrigan. It will be the fourth year that the club has hosted ANZAC Day events for the city with the Dawn Parade march and second parade later in the morning both commencing from the club. A $5 breakfast and a morning tea will be held on the day at the club as well as entertainment throughout the afternoon by live band Joint Effort. On 27 May the Manawatu Jazz Festival Friday night celebrations will be held at the club with one of the major bands taking part in the festival playing live. In 2017 the club will hold the Clubs New Zealand North Island Men’s Golf Tournament. Desiree says that the club has always focused on playing a significant part in the community, including making the club more user friendly for families, children and women. The club has reinstated its annual children’s Christmas party, which is proving very popular, making for a great family day out. The children’s menu at the club’s Pirani’s restaurant has been revamped with fun items named specifically to appeal to children including Crabby Burger and Chips (which references SpongeBob SquarePants in its title), Minions and Chips (mini hotdogs and chips) and Not For Nana Ice Cream Sundae, after club staff noticed that when kids ordered this particular desert
Nanas found it hard to keep their spoon out of the bowl. The club has also been offering more options for women to enjoy the club with speakers and events held last year such as style guru Jackie O’Fee and a Pink Ribbon Breakfast for women to mark breast cancer awareness week. “The club provides a safe place for women to meet their friends,” says Desiree. “We believe there is a market for women who do not want to go into town but still want a night out with friends with good entertainment suited to their needs.” Younger people have also been joining the club in greater numbers. The Palmerston North Cosmopolitan Club has introduced an intermediate membership for young people from the age of 12. “We have some very good young bowlers, 8 ball and darts players but we recognised that they couldn’t participate in club competitions so now they can. We hope this initiative will also encourage other young people into our sports adjuncts and also to learn the values of the club,” says Desiree. “We also have more members joining the club in the 20-35 age group. They can come and have a drink and meal in a safe environment as well as play a game of snooker, which has become quite popular, with their friends.” The initiatives are part of a move to bring the next generation into the club after the club reached a big milestone ,celebrating its 125th anniversary a couple of years ago. Established in 1889 one point of difference for the Palmerston North Cosmopolitan Club is that it has fought to retain its permanent charter, which the club sees as a valuable part of its heritage. With the club’s new mezzanine bar recently
Green was the theme at the Palmerston North Cossie Club’s housie evening on St Patrick’s Day. completed it is giving the Palmerston North Cosmopolitan Club more options to hold functions, meetings and social gatherings with full catering and bar options supplied if required. The mezzanine bar can hold around 100 people so it offers a more
New Plymouth initiatives make it ‘a club like no other’ A number of new initiatives and improvements, driven by recently retired president Ian Gyde, are helping the New Plymouth Club membership to grow, according to acting club president John Yandle. Among the changes the club’s popular initiative of subsidizing taxi rides to and from the club has received a further boost when the subsidy was increased to $10 per ride, meaning people can continue to visit the club safely. Investment in the venue has also been made with the club boasting a new computerized till system using Swift POS, which is increasing efficiencies. The new system allows members to simply swipe their membership card at the door to enter draws as well as benefit from the club’s loyalty system which sees $1 credited to the card for every $50 spent as well as access to brand specials.
The club offers draws on Thursday and Friday night jackpotting after a maximum of six weeks to $1500 for the larger of the draws. John says it is not unusual for the maximum jackpot to be reached. In the restaurant, menu boards are now computerized screens. The restaurant offers weekly specials as well as the usual favourites such as seafood baskets, burgers, roast of the day, rib eye fillet and lamb shanks as well as some international dishes. In a bid to increase its profile in the community and better communicate what the club offers a marketing firm has been employed. Initiatives such as open days have so far helped to raise awareness of the important part the club plays in the region. For example the club offers five local schools $1000 scholarships to enable promising young students to
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further their studies. John says the club will continue to seek to communicate opportunities it is offering that help to benefit the community. John admits he may be biased but he reckons the New Plymouth Club is one of the best in the country. It is certainly ranking highly in certain areas such as its sporting adjuncts. The New Plymouth Club and recently held the 43rd National Chartered Clubs Outdoor Bowls Tournament with 136 teams of four which was run with very successfully with the assistance of the Taranaki Bowling Centre, says John. The club has also had several of its junior members competing in both 8 pool and snooker including some that have played in overseas tournaments and against ranked professional players with very good results. The club currently holds the Clubs New Zealand tournament trophies for euchre, cribbage and 500. The New Plymouth Club is over 100 years old after celebrating its centenary in 2008. “We offer a restaurant with uninterrupted views out to the Tasman Sea and the New Plymouth coastline, excellent bar facilities and best of all great staff who welcome patrons and visitors with a smile and go that one step further to make sure everyone is happy,” says John. “The New Plymouth Club is certainly a place like no other.”
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