According to Valleys Cricket Club president Greg Garlick, it's been the way it has been for most of the club's 40 or so years of existence.
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"Whenever anyone's been in a bit of trouble within the club, whether there's an illness or anything like that, the club's always done their best to help them out," Garlick said, a man who for a long time been synonymous with the business of local cricket.
"They always rally around each other... There's a bond within the club that's always been pretty special."
However, 10 years ago, the situation wasn't as comfortable as it is now, with the club in a precarious position financially.
"We hit a really rough spot - finance and numbers," Garlick said.
However, thanks to the efforts of people at the Valleys, it found its way through the trough, one which affords it the ability to be closely involved with the community.
"We nearly folded... We worked really hard, we got it back into a really big financial position and now we feel we're in a position to help people so yeah, we just do."
While sporting clubs like the Valleys nearly always rely on the community's goodwill and support, Garlick is eager for Cowra residents to know that the Cowra Valleys - who affectionately call themselves "the People's Club" - are ready and willing to support those in the Cowra area who need assistance through a difficult situation.
Starting with fundraising for breast cancer research as part of Jane McGrath Day, the club has only got more attuned to opportunities to help people out, moving on to using traditional club events to Ladies' Day to raise money, and then broadening its ambitions further.
"We just thought, 'What else can we do?'" Garlick said.
"Every time we see an opportunity arise, we grab it with both hands."
And that's certainly evident from the club's track record over the past three years.
In 2017, the club raised money for a former club member that was battling cancer. While they declined the money, that player eventually donated funds the club raised, as well as the yield from his own personal efforts, to the Cowra Hospital.
This was followed in 2018 by $770 of fundraising for a local man - unrelated to the club - who suffered a brain injury, the money going to help accommodations costs for his wife after the man was forced to stay in Sydney as part of his recovery.
However, this year they've again intensified their efforts.
After the death of local Thomas Sharkey earlier this year, his family took part in the Blackmores Running Festival, with the Valleys donating $500 to the family, so they were sponsored as part of the 10km event.
The McNaught family, a prominent part of Valleys club, helped organise the club's second effort of the year, which will be a prominent part of the Answer for Cancer dinner to be held at the end of the month.
The club donated $475 to a company that does finger painting with sick children, which designers then turn into an artwork.
The Valley's have purchased one of the subsequent paintings, with 60% of the funds going to a charity chosen by the sick child's family.
However, it is their most recent effort that is taking up the bulk of their time and focus.
One of several efforts designed to help local child Mackenzie Hazleton, the club will be using their weekly Friday raffle, this week on August 23, to bring together staff from both the Cowra and Mulyan Primary Schools to raise funds for Hazleton, who is battling serious illness.
Cowra Meat Processors have also donated additional prizes for the fundraising, which will take place from 5.30pm to 7pm.
Garlick is eager to make a big push to ensure the occasion raises much needed funds for Mackenzie, and said the motivation was straightforward.
"We're all young fathers... so we put ourselves in the shoes of this family... We thought: 'How can we help?'
"All money raised goes to this little girl, she's fighting a fight that a five year old, six year old girl shouldn't have to."
However, while he was happy to put some help forward, he wanted to make clear it was nothing compared to what Mackenzie was going through.
"People always say it's a great idea, it's brilliant, well done, fantastic... it's nothing compared to what this girl's doing.
"It's very, very little, but any way we can help, we will."
Additionally, Garlick believes the club's focus on off-field culture has translated to its results on-field, with semi-finals last season a reward for a year of solid performances in Lachlan Premier Cricket.
"I think it's really good that our players and our club don't just focus on how many runs you've got or how many wickets you've got... we're playing the game and we're all together," Garlick said.
"A team that sticks together, wins together."
He also added that the community focus has helped create a sense of culture where players are able to not worry about where they are placed within a sporting club's broader infrastructure.
"That success has come on the field because players are more relaxed; they're not stressing about where they sit within the club ... everyone's equal."
Ultimately, though, Garlick believes the community fundraising has helped foster a healthier mindset towards the game.
"I think we came to the realisation that cricket is just a game," Garlick, who is also president of the Cowra District Cricket Association, said.
"In the end we're a small country town that just loves going out and playing a sport with our mates."
He also believe their efforts will pay off the long term health of cricket in the area even if it isn't necessarily his club that receives the good will from their efforts.
"We've worked hard to get ourselves in a great position where we're there to support the community around where we can.
"In return, people talk cricket, they think highly of Valleys Cricket Club... they might want to play cricket, it might be junior cricket, it might be cricket for another club in Cowra.
"[In] some way cricket is benefiting from the club's involvement in the community."
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