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2024 UPDATE

2024 has been a big year for the Hungarian Club of SA.

With the able assistance and hard work of our volunteers we vacated the premises early in the year, saying a fond farewell to some of our regular hirers. The Club’s precious and archival possessions have been moved to storage, and we are operating our office remotely- including the 2024 membership renewal period. We extended memberships to two years for 2024-6 while the Club is closed, with the next renewals due in 2026 when the new building will be launched.

Hungarian Caritas, among whose members we count many long-standing members of our own Club, have continued to provide lunches every Wednesday at the Lithuanian Club in Norwood. There the members of both organisations have been able to share news, enjoy lunch, and continue to purchase a range of Hungarian goods.

We have held our regular Committee meetings there throughout the year, and most recently gathered for our Annual General Meeting on 24th November. We thank Krystina and our friends at the Lithuanian Club for their continued support in allowing us to hire their excellent facilities and making us welcome.

If you have been past the Club site on Osmond Tce lately you will have noticed that demolition and groundworks have now been completed. The hoarding around the site features our club website address so that we can direct people there to find out what is going on.

Regular project meetings are held between the Club’s executive and Sarah Constructions, where we receive updates on the program, and deal with any issues that may arise. The Sarah Group are responsible for some of Adelaide’s key developments including the new Adelaide Aquatic Centre.

As we say goodbye to 2024, we look forward to perhaps the most exciting period of our journey, as the massive cranes move onto the site and the actual construction commences in January 2025. We will now see our new building take shape, and we will share images and news via this blog throughout the new year.

As we move closer to our re-opening, we will be finalising our plans for the operation of the new facilities and a series of opening events including exclusive member previews leading up to our grand reopening gala!