While the club is not in immediate danger of closing, there is a potential $37,000 debt hanging over its head.

This potential debt combined with poor financial months to begin the year were the main reasons the meeting was called.

Club President Neville Twigg said the club was very important to the Yenda community. 

“In December, January and February we were running at a loss so we weren’t getting enough income to cover our expenses,” Mr Twigg said.

“If that trend had continued then we would obviously have been in financial trouble.

“We would have been put in the hands of the financial controller and lost all control, to remedy that we thought the best thing to do was try and pay off our debt and start off with a clean slate.

“When you witness an event like Anzac Day that was so fully utilised you can see the definite need for the club.

“As somebody said to me the other day it’s like it’s the town hall of Yenda, it’s the focal point or the main building in Yenda where we hold all these functions and if it closes then people won’t be able to have that any more.”

To combat the potential financial problems the motion was brought forward that would give the Yenda club the ability to sell a sufficient number of poker machines to remove the debt and allow for the continued survival of the club.

“The selling of three poker machines would garner the club $35,000 and they have to be sold in lots of threes, they can’t be sold individually,” Mr Twigg said.

“I do stress that the poker machine sale is a last resort and that passing this motion doesn’t automatically mean that we are going to sell them.”

The motion was eventually passed after much discussion among the members.

Mr Twigg stressed that without continued support the club would not be able to survive.

“We need more support, if we don’t get the added support then whatever we do in the future just won’t work,” he said.

“It is nice to see that people have already offered money, offered ideas and volunteered support in an effort to save the club.”

“We’ve got a big function coming up with our Elvis night so hopefully people can get behind that.”

The ‘rock ‘n’ roll pasta and wine night’ is on Saturday, May 16.

Tickets cost $50 which includes a two course meal, wine and a show. They are available for purchase at the Yenda Diggers Club or at Valentines on Banna Avenue.