Club Tweed

What Club Tweed does

Club Tweed is a community hospitality and lawn bowls club based in Tweed Heads, New South Wales, Australia. It operates a single multi-outlet venue combining five food and beverage operations — Bistro 16, The Lounge, The Cafe, Green One Sports Lounge, and The Pantry — alongside bowling greens that support both social play and competitive events. The club hosts the Golden Nugget, a prestigious invitational singles bowls tournament attracting international players, as well as the Junior Golden Nugget for under-18 players, and fields the Tweed Ospreys team in the Bowls Premier League and BPL Cup.

The business model is multi-stream: membership subscriptions (general and bowls-specific), food and beverage sales across the venue's outlets, gaming and raffles revenue (NSW-licensed bingo and raffles under a published Responsible Gambling Code of Practice), venue hire for functions and events, and tournament-related commercial activity (sponsors, barefoot bowls parties). Go-to-market is local and physical: the venue relies on walk-in traffic, a public website, Facebook, Instagram, and an e.newsletter for member and community engagement. There is no app store presence, no disclosed API, and no online commerce channel indicated.

The company is structured as an Australian non-profit / registered club (legal name: Club Tweed) with 14 disclosed employees and no disclosed parent company, investors, funding, or acquisition activity. There are no signals of geographic, vertical, or digital expansion beyond local Tweed Heads operations. Operating indicators — refreshed marketing collateral, a new mobile or digital application referenced in 2024-dated creative, active menu programming, and a 2024 responsible-gambling policy update — suggest ongoing operational maintenance rather than material expansion.

Name

Club Tweed

Legal name

Club Tweed

Website

https://clubtweed.com.au

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Club Tweed is a non-profit community hospitality and lawn bowls club in Tweed Heads, NSW, operating five food and beverage venues, bowling greens hosting the Golden Nugget tournaments, and licensed gaming/raffles for local members and visitors.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Hospitality Clubs and Lawn Bowls Facilities

NAICS

Drinking Places (Alcoholic Beverages) (7224), Fitness and Recreational Sports Centers (713940)

SIC

Services-Membership Sports & Recreation Clubs (7997), Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810)

akta.pro industry

PRIMARYTHAFAEAA

Neighborhood & Sports Bars

Travel & Hospitality/Foodservice & Beverage (Restaurants, Cafes, Bars)/Bars, Pubs & Nightlife Venues

SECONDARYMPAGAIAD

Cocktail Lounges & Speakeasies

Media, Entertainment & Sports/Live Entertainment & Events (Concerts, Theater, Festivals)/Nightlife & Live Music Venues (Clubs, Bars)

Keywords

• Community club hospitality
• Lawn bowls tournaments
• Restaurant and bar venues
• Club membership programs
• Functions and events venue

Headquarters

HQ city

Tweed Heads

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Others

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Club Tweed is a community hospitality and sporting club operating a multi-outlet food and beverage venue alongside a lawn bowls facility in Tweed Heads, NSW. It sells casual dining and bar service across five distinct outlets (Bistro 16, The Lounge, The Cafe, Green One Sports Lounge, The Pantry), runs weekly entertainment promotions (bingo, trivia, raffles, live music), hosts lawn bowls tournaments including the Golden Nugget and Junior Golden Nugget, and rents its venue for private functions and events. Membership is required for entry per Australian club licensing rules.

Product overview

Club Tweed is a hospitality and leisure club offering multiple dining venues, entertainment, and lawn bowls facilities. The venue operates Bistro 16, The Lounge, The Cafe, Green One Sports Lounge, and The Pantry as distinct dining options, alongside entertainment services including live music, Bingo, and Trivia Nights. Its lawn bowls division hosts major tournaments including the Golden Nugget (prestigious invitational singles) and Junior Golden Nugget for under-18 players, participates in the Bowls Premier League through the Tweed Ospreys team, and offers Social Bowls and Barefoot Bowls for recreational play. The club also provides venue hire for functions and events, with membership programs available for both general access and bowling privileges.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bistro 16

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Tweed Heads Bowls Club: Bowls-focused club in the Tweed Heads area offering lawn bowls, dining, and bar facilities — directly comparable on the bowls and community club model.
• Club Banora: Small community/bowls club in the Tweed Heads South / Banora Point area, competing for the same local bowling and social member base.
• Twin Towns Services Club: Large registered club located in Tweed Heads directly adjacent to Club Tweed, offering multiple dining venues, bars, entertainment, and bowls facilities to a similar membership and community base.
• Broadbeach Bowls Club: Gold Coast bowls and social club offering dining, bars, entertainment and lawn bowls — same format as Club Tweed but in a higher-density tourist catchment.
• Tugun Bowls Club: Smaller bowls and community club just south of Tweed Heads offering social bowls, dining, and bar — comparable in scale and format to Club Tweed.
• Mermaid Beach Bowls Club: Gold Coast bowls club with multi-outlet F&B, live entertainment, and lawn bowls — operational model closely mirrors Club Tweed.
• Burleigh Heads Bowls Club: Lawn bowls club on the Gold Coast with dining, bars, and entertainment — directly comparable Australian bowls + F&B venue.
• Club Tweed Heads & Coolangatta RSL: RSL-affiliated club in the Tweed Heads / Coolangatta border area offering dining, bars, gaming, and community services — competing registered club in the same catchment.

Broad incumbents

• Southport Sharks: Larger Gold Coast registered club offering dining, sports bar, entertainment, and gaming — comparable format but at greater scale and broader offering.
• Helensvale Club: Larger Gold Coast registered club with dining, bars, entertainment, and bowls (Tweed Heads / Gold Coast corridor) — overlapping audience and offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/clubtweed
• Instagraminstagram.com/clubtweed
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/tweed-heads-bowls-cub

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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