Community at Windsor RSL — Hawkesbury’s Home

The Hawkesbury is more than just the place we’re located — it’s the community we belong to. For over 66 years, Windsor RSL has stood as something bigger than a club. We are woven into the fabric of this region: through the families who gather here, the veterans we honour, and the quiet, everyday acts of giving that rarely make headlines but change lives all the same. Every meal enjoyed, every round of golf played, every evening spent with friends under our roof — it all comes back to the community that gave us our purpose.

In the 2024/25 financial year, Windsor RSL invested over $330,000 into the Hawkesbury community, reaching 65 organisations and 40 individual projects spanning health, education, sport, veteran support, arts, family services, and animal conservation. Through the ClubGRANTS program — one of Australia’s most significant club-driven community funding models — we partnered with groups doing extraordinary work across our region. We contributed $20,000 to the Fair Fight Foundation’s Super Tee project, which saw 384 superhero-themed medical garments packed and delivered directly to Hawkesbury Hospital — each one a reminder to a sick child that our whole community stands behind them. We supported Link Wentworth’s Safe Start Essentials Package, helping people flee unsafe homes with the dignity of a fresh start. And we proudly funded RuffTRACK’s Hunter’s Walk for Hope — a powerful day of remembrance, resilience and wellbeing for those who have experienced profound loss.

Some of the work we’re most proud of begins in our own backyard with some of the most vulnerable members of our community. Windsor RSL is honoured to be a key supporter of The Jeremiah Project, founded by the remarkable Jacky Turano — a grassroots outreach service that provides food, warmth, and human connection to the homeless in the Hawkesbury and surrounding areas. Our largest single ClubGRANTS allocation this year went towards The Jeremiah Project’s Bunker in Windsor, underwriting its operations and helping ensure that no one in our community has to face hardship alone. We also championed an initiative that won Windsor RSL a ClubsNSW Community Award in the Education category: our partnership with First Aid For You brought life-saving CPR and emergency response training directly into classrooms, reaching over 90 students in Years 3 to 6 at Windsor Park Public School. These are children who now know what to do in a crisis — and that is a gift that belongs to the whole community.

Windsor RSL is also deeply committed to the men and women who served our country. Our RSL Sub Branch continues its vital work supporting veterans and their families across the Hawkesbury, and this year we took another significant step by providing space at our Argyle Street home for the Temporary Hawkesbury Veterans and Families Hub — a federally funded initiative offering veterans a single, welcoming point of access to housing support, financial assistance, employment services, and wellbeing programs as they transition back to civilian life. It’s a project born from the findings of the Royal Commission into veteran suicide, and we are proud to have played a part in bringing it to our community as quickly as possible. When you become a member of Windsor RSL, or simply walk through our doors, you are part of all of this — part of a club that believes looking after each other is the most important thing we can do.