The Society conducts four general meetings a year, one of which is the Annual General Meeting, usually in September. Meetings are frequently held with a guest speaker as the focal point of the evening. Past speakers have included many early residents and identities such as Les McGuire, the first headmaster of Avalon Public School, Wal Ward who worked with his dad in the first service station and formed the first scout group. Others include Sam Meek who worked on the Careel Bay dairy and who was also our first butcher and Max Watt who, as a member of the Woolloomooloo Police Boys’ Club, obtained his Bronze Medallion with the Avalon Beach Surf Club in 1945, and patrolled the beach for the next 60 years.
The Society has conducted tours to historic homes throughout the area and guided walking tours around Avalon Beach. Members were also witness, from the observation deck, to one of the last firings of a torpedo from the original torpedo base at Clareville in 1983 before it was demolished to make way for the present naval diving school.