Fundraising | Petersham Bowls Club

HELP BUILD THE FUTURE OF THE PBC

support our accessibility fundraiser!

Fundraising

Highlight:

Tickets $5 - Drawing June 13th

Our next running raffle is ‘music and gig’ themed and includes these fantastic prizes and will be drawn at a special event at the club on June 13 7pm. (You don’t have to attend - you will be informed by email.)

All money raised goes directly to the access fund.
Thank you for helping to make the club accessible to all!

Mega Music Access Raffle PRIZES

🎸 A guitar signed by none other than Bruce Springsteen himself framed with a custom background and authentication certificate. Absolutely iconic music memorabilia! Valued at $3000.

❤️ Love Police ATM merch bundle (a whole bunch of band merch, think Cold Chisel, Hoodoos, King Stingray, Paul Kelly, etc.). RRP $1000

📀 Repressed Records vinyl, merch, and voucher pack. RRP $600

🎶 Cloud Control tickets to their June 20 Enmore show, plus a signed vinyl and merch pack. Valued at $400.

🎟️ Two tickets to any show at the Metro, Enmore, or Factory Theatre thanks to Century Entertainment. Choose your live gig adventure! Valued at $300.

🦎 King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, collectors vinyl pack. RRP $250

📚 Stuart Coupe signed book bundle; A collection of signed books by the renowned music journalist and author Stuart Coupe.

🥚 Egg Records voucher. Value $100

✨ A PBC Golden ticket, A double pass to any show/event at the Petersham Bowling Club valid for 12 months. This includes our newest monthly event ‘Dust & Groove’ hosted by Robbie Buck. RRP Priceless!

❓ Exclusive mystery music packs. What surprises await? More shall be revealed…

TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF ENTRY

Open to residents of NSW, 18 years old and over. PBC staff & board members, fundraising partners and their immediate family are ineligible to enter.

Full terms and conditions can be viewed here.

Get your Raffle tickets here!

Why we are fundraising

We are working hard on upgrading the Petersham Bowling Club with a ramp and making it accessible to all. After all, everyone should be able to equally enjoy our pokie-free community-run club full of music, recreation and good times. Access is a right for all humans.

If we want to be the amazing little community club our community deserves, we must raise enough money to build this future for the PBC!

How you can get involved

Buying a beer from our special Ramp Tap, seeing a band or a live wrestling show, or simply donating or buying a raffle ticket – there are plenty of fun ways to get involved. Big or small, it really does all count!

Donate to our GoFundMe campaign here!

What we have achieved so far

🎉 PBC Accessibility Fundraiser April 2025 Update, WE JUST HIT 100K! 🎉

We have just hit $100,000 overall for the fundraiser! This includes all of our fundraising activities we are doing at the PBC including onsite fundraising events like SHAM FEST & RAMPAGE, beer sales from our ramp tap, merch, major prize raffles and our go fund me donations, THANKYOU!

Since launching our GoFundMe at the unforgettable SHAM FEST in April 2024, we’ve been riding an amazing wave of community support and hard work to reach our target of 500k to make the PBC accessible. We just had SHAMFEST 2025 and together we topped up the fundraising with 20,000 to reach 100K!

During regular service; raffles with big prizes like The Mega Music Access Raffle, Christmas hams and Hoodoo Gurus tickets, weekly meat-n-veg raffles, and karma kegs from brewery partners plus direct donations via the GoFundMe campaign.

And we have been busy away from the bar as well, speaking to our councillors and MPs about our case for funding, as well as applying for government grants.

Maybe you were there for Rampage, a PWA x PBC pro wrestling fundraiser in February 2025? The energy was unreal when Tuckman body-slammed Ricky South and took the win. It was a knock-out event that raised $20,000 by itself, making the national news the next day.

All the support and excitement we have seen so far say a lot about who we are as a community and how we want to gather, celebrate and organise. We crave live music, sword fighting, baby animals, ham, dancing, beer, waterslides and wrestling – and we want these things to be universally accessible for all!

Keep showing up, donate where you can, buy some merch and share our fundraiser with your friends, so that next time, anyone and everyone can be a performer or punter at the PBC!

Here are all the ways you can show your support…

Lets raise critical funds to make the PBC an accessible place at the heart of our community for music, recreation and good times for all, because access is a right, not a privilege!

Donate online, hit that green button or see us in person at the bar

You can decide however much you want to donate online or onsite with cash or card. Do we take money orders and cheques as well? Yes, absolutely! Just call (02) 9569 4639.

The Ramp Tap – Currently pouring Grifter – Pink Galah

Pop into the club and grab yourself and your mates a brew off the Ramp Tap. All sales go directly to the fundraiser, thanks to the generously-donated kegs from our legendary independent brewery partners.

Major Prize Online Raffles

Check out out Mega Music Access Raffle drawing June 13!

If your business would be willing to donate a major prize to support our fundraiser, or you have the corporate hookups to make things happen, please get in touch! You can mail us at fundraising@thepbc.org.au.

Weekly meat-n-veg raffle

Every Friday evening, we run a classic meat and veggie tray raffle. Tickets are cheap, starting at $3, and all proceeds support the fundraiser.

Events – Next fundraiser event SHAMFEST, APRIL 5-6

The 2025 fundraising event schedule includes major outdoor events such as SHAMFEST and Medieval Day, as well as benefit gigs and the fantastic Ramp Up Disco. The list goes on, and it’s all going to be excellent! Check out our Whats On page or sign up to our fortnightly newsletter to stay in the know.

Buy some merch

All merch sales support the fundraiser. Grab an iconic PBC rainbow shirt from the online shop or at the bar. Also, keep an eye out, as stunning new merch is dropping soon!

Become a PBC member

Join up as a social or associate club member to show your support with tiered membership benefits.

Share our campaign

Can’t come to the club because it’s not accessible enough? Got no money? Maybe you live far away, or you’re just really famous? We get it! Still, you can absolutely help by sharing our fundraiser on the socials.

Donate to our GoFundMe campaign!