Albany RSL salutes the organisations who help plan Anzac Day with annual function for supporters and sponsors

Albany RSL hosted its final formal 2025 Anzac event earlier this week with its supporters and sponsors enjoying an evening at its Stirling Terrace clubrooms on Monday.

Services director Michael Tugwell welcomed more than 50 representatives to the function, which recognises the up to 65 organisations that play a part in Albany’s Anzac story each year.

Support ranges from heavy involvement on the day to months of planning beforehand, Mr Tugwell told the audience, citing the RSL’s longstanding collaboration with the City of Albany events team as an example.

Certificates of appreciation were handed out as Mr Tugwell promised that 2025 would prove to be an exciting dress rehearsal for Albany’s bicentenary in 2026.

PR officer Nicole Edmonds thanked everyone involved.

“It’s amazing to see all the groups, the volunteers, the businesses, the City of Albany events team, and Albany RSL working together like clockwork,” she said.

“When I looked around me at the dawn service and saw all those people watching in the rain, the sky starting to light up, I felt very humbled by what we had managed to do again this year.

“It would be a very hard task without all our volunteers.

“Everyone involved is there because they want to be part of Anzac Day Albany.

“We should all be proud of what we have achieved again this year.”