About Us

Moses Mifsud had a dream of forming a group of New South Wales lawn bowlers of Maltese origin, who can get together on a regular basis to enjoy a game of bowls, socialize, create new friendships and have a good time. This would also give retirees an opportunity to get outdoors and make new friends with bowlers of the same background.

His dream became a reality on the 6^th December 1998, when nine Maltese-Australian bowlers met for their first official game at the Bexley Bowling Club and gave birth to the Maltese Bowlers Social Group NSW. Thanks to those founding members and the great enthusiasm and continuous hard work of Moses, the association grew and matured having been built on sound foundations.

The following year, in July 1999, the association moved to the Auburn Bowling Club making it its first official home base. A couple of years later, on 22 June 2001, we were certified as an incorporated association by the Department of Fair Trading. After the closure of the Auburn Bowling Club on 1^st May 2005 we moved to the present home base at the Rosehill Bowling Club. In December 2008 we celebrated our tenth anniversary.

We organize monthly friendly games of lawn bowls at different NSW bowling clubs and hold social functions for Australian lawn bowlers of Maltese origin, their partners and friends. Our activities are aimed to give opportunities to Maltese-Australians to regularly play and promote their favourite sport and uphold their culture and heritage and good standing in the community of which we are all very proud. We are well respected and proud to run a well-managed club.

We are combined member with The Royal NSW Bowling Association Inc. We support the Australian representatives of the Malta Lawn Bowls Federation. Our club is an active member of the Maltese Community Council of NSW. Our club logo incorporates the red and white colours of the Maltese flag, the Maltese cross and the Australian green and gold sporting colours.

We are honoured to have Lino Vella AM as our Patron and appreciate the assistance we receive from our major sponsor Breakaway Travel and Simplicity Funerals. We also receive good publicity support from a number of Maltese language radio programmes in Sydney that include 2RRR 88.5fm, 2GLF 89.3fm and SBS 97.7fm.

Annual Pairs and Triples Championships are held within the membership. Apart from many games at the Rosehill Bowling Club, our programme always includes a number of games at other NSW registered bowling clubs. At every game our bowlers wear the club’s official club shirts and our flag is raised on the greens. Social functions and day trips are typical social activities that are organised. The main function of the year is the combined Annual Awards Presentations and Christmas Lunch.

A monthly newsletter is published and is available to all members free of charge. We provide free coaching and lending of bowls to new members. We are a non-profit organisation run by a nine-member management committee and depend financially on sponsorship and fundraising activities amongst our members.

Currently the club averages 80 members of both genders who also play at their respective registered bowling clubs in all grades. We have members that compete and have done well in major competitions including representing Malta in lawn bowls.