Glen Innes Services club is one of the state's most decorated establishments after winning a Clubs NSW award for the second time in three years.
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The club took the 2019 Arts and Culture award for the 2018 Outlandish Gathering of fans of the Outlander series on Saturday night. In 2017 they won the same award for hosting the Celtic Music Awards.
That makes them one of the smallest of the state's 1440 clubs to win more than one of the most prestigious Clubs and Community Awards.
Julie Clement, the club's Events and Entertainment Manager, and brains behind the event, was on hand in Sydney's Darling Harbour to receive the award.
"The first feeling I had was, like, it was unbelievable," she said.
"It was like a dream, it was just so amazing to be recognised within the club industry for the work we did with Outlandish."
The club smashed a field of nine, including the famous Blacktown workers' club, Woolongong's Dapto League's club and the Ettalong Diggers club from the Central coast, all much larger towns.
Julie Clement said Glen Innes should be proud of their club, which is now one of the smallest multi-award winners in NSW.
"That's quite impressive," she said.
"To win two awards in two years is quite amazing, which goes to show we really do go to every detail to deliver something.
"There were a couple of people that actually came up to Pat to say we're so happy for you to win another award so soon!"
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She said the key point of difference was that Glen Innes Services Club wasn't afraid to build something from the ground up.
The event, held in October 2018, celebrated the Scottish-themed TV show Outlander, welcoming 578 obsessives to Glen Innes from as far as the US, Germany, Afghanistan, and even Scotland itself.
The key word was authenticity. From period dress to correct food to dressing up the town's finest establishments as a perfect replica of the show's set, everything had to perfect for the potentially loyal uber-fans.
It was a massive, stressful job for the club's Events and Entertainment Manager, who said the award has dispelled doubts she sometimes had about the enormous effort that goes into the club's larger projects.
"Suddenly you're on the stage down at Darling Harbour at the Grand Ballroom of the Conventio Centre it just whacks you in the face that you've just won this amazing thing!"
She said Glen Innes will have to wait and see what amazing idea the Club comes up with next.
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Andrew Messenger
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
Politics, environment and energy journalist at the Northern Daily Leader. I also write about health, bushfires and occasionally music. I'm a Brisbane boy by way of Charleville and Hobart who now lives in in beautiful New England. Get me at andrew.messenger@austcommunitymedia.com.au
