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TGBC Monthly challenge – #beerwithastranger
September 05, 2019
This challenge was about getting outside your normal circle and getting to know a goon you don’t know much about. Blokes have a reputation for not being good at getting out there socially so it was great to see the goons putting a major...
Read MoreTGBC Camp 2019
June 19, 2019
We've been to a mountain range national park, a high-country lake, the rugged southern coast and now we're headed to Victoria's longest river. It's difficult to capture a TGBC camp with words. It's different things to everybody. It's slow and steady or intrepid and...
Read MoreThe Monthly Challenge
May 07, 2019
Encompassing more than just reading a book each month, Tough Guy Book Club has challenges for members. This started with a yearly reminder to get a blood pressure test and some fundraising activities for men’s health initiatives, over time, these challenges have evolved and...
Read MoreLismore Chapter Kick Off
April 01, 2019
We’ve done it. We’re proud to announce that with a LOT of help from our friend and new Chapter President David Harris, we have finally opened our 2nd chapter in New South Wales. Join us in welcoming the lads of the Northern Rivers to...
Read MoreHeyfield Chapter Opens
March 05, 2019
Though most of the region is on fire the mighty Heyfield Chapter could not be stopped opening tonight. Seriously, there’s bush fires all over Gippsland and the town of Heyfield is real smoky today but with the experienced hand of Clean Pete at the...
Read MoreCastlemaine Chapter Founded
February 15, 2019
TGBC is pleased to announce that we will be opening a chapter in the Victorian town of Castlemaine in March. Castlemaine is a town with a long history, great bookshops and many fine drinking establishments. It was meant to be and now it is....
Read MoreGoon Profile – Alex Dobson
February 12, 2019
Name: Alex Dobson **Chapter: Sydney Who are you: Wine wanker, pasta nerd and passionate lover of, and advocate for, all forms of creative expression from fashion to fine art. How long have you been with TGBC: TGBC: March 2015? How did you end up...
Read MoreTGBC Book Swap 2018
February 12, 2019
Yet again piles of our goons have participated in our end of year book swap. This year we had 140 goons get involved and send guys they have never met a book, or books, or books and booze, or books and booze and a...
Read MoreWindsor and Yarraville Chapters Kick Off
February 05, 2019
2019 is off to a flying start with 2 Melbourne Chapters opeing tonight. The first is one directly between the existing Footscray and Williamstown Chapters in the notoriously civilised but likes to party suburb of Yarraville, which continues our ongoing expansion into the western...
Read MoreTGBC Movember Team – 2018
December 05, 2018
This last month a bunch of our goons grew moustaches (or ran k’s) to raise money for vital men’s health research and there was truly some shockingly bad ones. Seriously, on its best day this clubs not exactly an oil painting but the mo’s...
Read MoreHemingway Month 2018
July 03, 2018
Every year we have Hemingway Month. We do this because he is interesting. He’s an icon of 20th century masculinity, with all the drinking, women and guns but he’s also a mean, misogynistic alcoholic who was worried about how much of a man he...
Read MoreCanberra Chapter Opens
June 13, 2018
When surveyor Charles Scrivener was charged with finding a suitable site for our fledgling nation’s capital in 1904, little could he have imagined what was to follow over one hundred years later. Anyone who has ever been on a school excursion to Canberra (and,...
Read MoreGoon Profile – "Clean" Pete Collings
May 31, 2018
Name: "Clean" Pete Collings **Chapter: Castlemaine East Who are you: An ordinary bloke with extraordinary dreams. I'm also a proud husband to an awesome woman and father to two awesome teenage girls. How long have you been with TGBC: My first meeting was in...
Read MoreNow recruiting in Adelaide
May 31, 2018
We have chapters all up the east coast of Australia but now it is time to move west. We are looking for people who live in Adelaide and are interested in helping us get a chapter off the ground there. If you know anyone...
Read MorePoint to Pinnacle (The Outcome)
November 19, 2017
I didn’t sleep. I had an early start and I was worried I’d sleep in. I was too hot under the medium thickness spring/autumn doona and kept stealing sweaty glances at the clock. 23:17 00:43 03:56 04:32 I got up before my alarm and...
Read MoreBendigo and Ballarat Incoming.
November 05, 2017
To round out another great year for our club we are opening two Chapters this December, the long overdue Bendigo and Ballarat. We’ve been planning on open many more central Victorian Chapters after our success in Castlemaine and these two towns are the obvious...
Read MoreTGBC Ocsober Team 2017
October 31, 2017
This year to change things up a bit, instead of participating in Movember as a club like we usually do, we decided to put a team together for Ocsober. It’s a charity fundraiser where you promise to lay off the beers for a month....
Read MoreCastlemaine Billy Cart Challenge
October 23, 2017
It started out in 1949 as The Apex Soap Box Derby. In 2017 it would return as the Castlemaine Billy Cart Challenge. When our goons in the Victorian town of Castlemaine got wind of the challenge, they got romanticising. Naturally, nearly everyone had great...
Read MoreGoon Profile – Sam Stops
October 18, 2017
Name: Sam Stops **Chapter: I feel most at home at Hobart chapter. Who are you: I’m your average man in his late 30s. I have a beautiful wife who’s way out of my league and we own a home in South Hobart. We have...
Read MorePoint to Pinnacle
October 10, 2017
Point to Pinnacle On the 19th of November, well know goons Wash and Sam Stops Presedent of Hobart Chapter are tackling the self proclaimed “World’s Toughest Half Marathon”. It starts at sea level and over the 21.1 Km course ascends 1270m to the pinnacle...
Read MoreThe Camp of Frost Lake - Daniel McMahon
October 06, 2017
You’re hanging from a wire, attached to a dead eucalyptus tree, suspended over a freezing lake in alpine Victoria. Your zipline harness pulls your thighs up to your shoulders and your testicles up somewhere around your chin. Your breath is choking hot, because for...
Read MoreGoon Profile – Steve Bruce
July 11, 2017
Name: Steve Bruce **Chapter: Williamstown Vic Who are you: An older dude with modern thoughts, who can be found blowing harp, skiing, writing or reading (not necessarily in that order). How long have you been with TGBC: My first meeting was To Kill a...
Read MoreToowoomba Chapter Founded
June 06, 2017
Today we welcome on-board our newest crew, the mighty Toowoomba Chapter. This first meet will be tonight the 7th of June at the Spotted Cow around 7pm. If you never been to “The Cow” before it’s a great local boozer with an excellent beer...
Read MoreCamp 2017 Tickets Now On Sale
March 31, 2017
Tickets for TGBC Camp 2017 are now for sale on this website via the Store tab. You can buy full tickets or you can buy a tenth of a ticket. If you have bought 10 of these by camp you have a whole ticket....
Read MoreCastlemaine Chapter Founded
March 01, 2017
In an exciting club first, TGBC has broken away from its metropolitan roots to establish its first regional chapter. An hour and a half north of Melbourne, in the Victorian Goldfields district, our new Castlemaine Chapter has moved into The Bridge Hotel. At the...
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