In response to the spate of migrant drownings last Christmas, Canterbury League Club banded together with City of Canterbury-Bankstown Council and Royal Life Saving NSW to deliver a new swim survival program to local primary schools. The pilot program, called Canterbury Aquatic Survival Skills Project, engaged 306 Year 4 students from seven schools including Campsie
For a week in October, Canterbury and its staff were awash in all things pink to fundraise funds for National Breast Cancer Foundation (NBCF) and their fight against breast cancer. During the Club’s October Breast Cancer Awareness Week, Bakehouse Café’s front dessert display cabinet was jam-packed with delicious pink sweets and treats such as pink
Canterbury League Club was announced as the winner of a ClubsNSW Clubs & Community Award at the recent awards night on 15 October 2017 in recognition of the Club’s work to feed the homeless in the city with local Punchbowl group, Maronites on Mission. Awards in nine different categories were up for grabs on the
Since the last magazine, work has really ramped up and there has been a lot of progress on all construction areas at the Western wing of the Club. New bathrooms on the first floor were unveiled several weeks ago – there are now even more toilets in the male and female section, sleek golden doors
Behind the black hoarding, away from public eyes, work is happening at an energetic pace to transform the former Banyan Brasserie into Canterbury’s latest dining offering, The Bistro. At last check, the Western side escalators have been demolished and replaced with new ones. Builders have shifted the angle which connects the two floors so now
Cyril Henry Murray, or more fondly known as Harry, aged 88, passed away on Wednesday 13 September 2017. Born on 29 November 1928, Harry was a Canterbury League Club Member since January 1964, joining not long after the start of another adventurous expansion program of the original ‘Paragon No.1’ building back when the club was known
