Irvine Club

Our Story

Established in 2004, the Irvine Club was formed in honour of Australian cricketer Jock Irvine after capturing our hearts and imaginations as younger lads. He held the 12th man position for the Australian cricket team in all tests for the India and South Africa tours in 1969/70.

"Like Jock, we too have had sporting aspirations and ambitions that we did not quite fulfil, despite the tall tales we may otherwise tell."

As with any team, we come together as friends and associates and share a common goal. We share a passion for life, a passion for our sports and a passion for growing to become a greater force for good. Our events feature guest appearances and raise funds for much-needed charities. We laugh and may cry, and together we have true mateship that enables us to be proud of who we are.

OUR PURPOSE

To create and enhance our relationships and bring together a community of friends and extended associates in a social environment to share our love of sports. In addition, our events raise awareness and funds to support local charities.

OUR WHY

Together we're a stronger community. We share stories and unite our friends and associates to collaborate in business and become a greater force for good. Through our social events, we raise awareness and funds for much-needed charities.

OUR GOAL

Our goal is to make a difference; to our friendship groups, business associations, networks and broader communities. Our social events have proudly supported Beyond Blue, Interplast, The Lighthouse Foundation, Cure for Life Foundation and many more.

OUR GIVING

The Irvine Club is a not-for-profit organisation. Through the incredible generosity of our members, our guests and supporters, we are proud to have generated funds well over $2,000,000 towards local, national and international charities.

OUR PURPOSE

OUR WHY

OUR GOAL

OUR GIVING

Charity Partners

The Irvine Club proudly support charities such as Beyond Blue, Interplast, The Lighthouse Foundation, Cure for Life Foundation, Spinal Cord Society of Australia, Let’s Beat Bowel Cancer Foundation, Reclink, Yooralla Foundation, Kids Foundation, Footpath Library, James McCready Bryan Foundation, Zaidee’s Rainbow Foundation, Heartkids, Brainlink, Save our Sons, Challenge, Heartwell, Life’s Little Treasures, Westpac Life Saver Rescue Helicopters, LifeAgain, Windermere Child & Family Services, KidsXPress, Shine, The John MacLean Foundation, Kind Cuts for Kids, Sport and Tourism Youth Foundation, The Lord Taverners Vic, The Will Murray Foundation, McGrath Foundation, Ponting Foundation, Challenge and Charlie Teo Foundation.

We are incredibly proud of what the Irvine Club now represents, enhancing our personal and professional network and embracing organisations that assist those less fortunate.

Our Events

March 2022

Anzac Day 2021

November 2019

Gallery

Irvine Club Gallery of Events.

Speakers

The Irvine Club has several businesses and individuals that actively support our lunches and help us with our fundraising activities.

Speakers at previous Irvine events have included the likes of Bill Lawry, Vivian Richards, Sir Richard Hadlee, Sir Ian Botham, Allan Border, Rodney Hogg, Damien Fleming, Robert Murphy, Luke Beveridge, Kim Hughes, Mark Ella, Dr Turf, Peter Moody, John MacLean, Kerry O’Keefe, Mark Bosnich, Sterling Mortlock, Sam Newman, Rex Hunt, David “Bumble”, Nathan Sharpe, Rod Kafer, Matt Cockbain, Nathan Grey, Peter FitzSimons, Mark Geyer, Dermott Brereton, Billy Brownless, Jack Newton, John Silvester, Robbie Slater, Kevin Muscat, Kevin Sheedy, Sam Kekovich, Steve Bradbury, Tim Watson, Stan Alves, Tim Lane, Laurence Mooney, Neil Balme and Dave Grant.

At the inaugural function held at the Kelvin Club, we started with 70 guests and grew to 140 and 210 at the Irvine lunch events two and three. Our current lunches now exceed over 400 guests and attract some of the most prominent speakers in the world.

Testimonials

We can only hope the money we raise at our lunches makes a difference to the work our partner charities do. This is what moves us and we are grateful for the recognition

Scott Taylor

I sincerely thank all those at Irvine and wish them continued success in the great work that they do in assisting grass roots organisations like Heartwell.

Nick Murray (Nov 2016)

We were blown away by the incredible support that we received for Will from the Irvine Club and everyone involved who helped make last weeks lunch such a great success.

Sharon Strugnell

BrainLink take seriously the responsibility of spending such funds so as to effect maximum support and benefit to those most in need. We would be happy to provide an update on the project in the future.

Gareth Andrews

It was always going to be a special day because of the effort put into it by The Irvine Club. Their support to the Life Again Foundation was amazing, as was their attention to every little detail throughout the process.