Hawkesbury City Council has finished the job at Deerubbin Park, and anyone who plays, coaches or watches sport in Windsor now has a much better setup to show for it. Council officially opened the park’s upgraded amenities on Wednesday, 2 September 2026, with local rugby and rugby league families turning out to see the changes.
The project cost $1.4 million, split between $1 million from the NSW Government’s Essential Community Sports Assets Program Infrastructure Grants and $416,000 from council. That money went into two buildings: the park’s original amenities block, fully refurbished with new public toilets, a first aid room, a referees’ changeroom, and extra storage, and a brand-new second building next to the sporting fields with modern player changerooms and additional public toilets.
If you follow the Hawkesbury Valley Rugby Club, you’ll know Deerubbin Park well. Senior President Steve Neal has been training and playing there for 25 years, and he’s not shy about how welcome the changes are. He singled out the upgraded carpark and new floodlighting alongside the amenities building as improvements the club had wanted for a long time.
Windsor Wolves fans have plenty to be pleased about too. Club chairman and president Ben Nas says the Wolves are now the biggest tackle-ready rugby league club in New South Wales, and the old facilities simply hadn’t kept pace with that growth. He says the new buildings give players, coaches and volunteers somewhere they can be proud to call home, and he’s thanked council and the Hawkesbury Sports Council for backing a project he expects will serve the club and its families for years.
Local dignitaries turned out for the ribbon cutting, including Member for Hawkesbury Robyn Preston, Mayor Les Sheather, council General Manager Will Barton, and staff from the Hawkesbury Sports Council. Minister for Sport Stephen Kamper said the state government was glad to see the project delivered, and Mayor Sheather called Deerubbin Park one of the district’s key recreational spaces, adding that the upgrades would make it more welcoming and functional for everyone who uses it.
One more thing to look forward to: council has flagged additional lighting upgrades for the park down the track, which should make it safer to use and let clubs get more use out of the grounds later into the evening.
