Sydney Office Fire - How You Can Help
June 25, 2025 - yesterday
Less than a week ago, our Urban Rec Head Office in marrickville burnt to the (almost) ground. We lost it all, equipment, merch, gear, even our famous Party Cart and Kegorator Bin! The new prizing we just ordered, all the t-shirts staff uniforms, the Netball bibs, ALL OF IT.
But if you’ve played this week, you probably wouldn’t have noticed. And that’s exactly what makes us so damn proud. Our League Managers have pulled off the impossible, keeping leagues running like nothing happened. That’s no small feat, and we’re bursting with pride for how they’ve stepped up in the face of what’s been a pretty traumatic week behind the scenes.
We’ve got a long road ahead. The next six months will be hard, we need to replace 12 years worth of gear, and some of what we lost probably won’t hit us for a while. And before you think “Insurance Job”, think again, we ticked “no” to the section about contents insurance for the office. FML.
Whats been insanely cool is the members and ex-staff coming out of the woodwork to sish us love and support and we want to say a huge hearfelt thank you to all he community in and arround Marrickville who have made the all a little less shit.
Here’s how you can help:
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Bring us any old Urban Rec gear you don’t need, bags, hats, hoodies, cones, balls, old staff shirts, anything you have, we need. The Cupboards are BARE!
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Buy one of our brand-new commemorative t-shirts for $20 – they’ll be online next week, and only a couple of extra dollars will be added onto the cost and the proceeds go towards helping us rebuild.
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Do the biggest favour of aLl… keep playing sport with us this Winter. Bring a mate. Join as an individual. Sign up for that league you’ve been putting off. Every registration is a vote of confidence and a huge help.
We’re not going anywhere. And with your support, you’ll continue to enjoy social sport as always, whilwe embrace our new minimalist lifestyle. 😂
Much love – Mads & The Urban Rec Crew 🖤🔥
P.s. If you want to follow along, I’m going to be doing a little series on TikTok called. “Diary of a Burnt Office” so you can see what we have to do BTS to keep thinks ticking along.