First met on March 22nd 1977 and was chartered on March 10th 1978. At the Charter Dinner 286 Apexians and wives and friends attended.
Toowong/Kenmore Apex Club was our founder club.
Founded a summit Club in 1978, due to changing circumstances of the participating young people caused the membership to drop dramatically and it decided to disband in 1983.

In 1978 saw the first Santa Sleigh. It has been run yearly since then. The SLeigh has been revamped over the years and gives the young and old joy at Christmas time. Manned by members it is towed around the Centenary Suburbs 2 weeks prior to Christmas.

Also that year was the construction of the Apex Catering Van. It was a construction workers van purchased for $50 from John Holland Constructions. With many working bees, the van was converted to a catering van used at many fetes and fairs. It was eventually sold in 1997 to Bundeberg Apex Club.

Jindalee Apex Club was heavily involved in the construction of the Apex Camp at Mudjimba Beach 1981/82 with the help of Geoff Casey. Many a working bee was performed, and club members enjoyed the challenge.

The Club was incorporated in 1984/85.

1985/86 Four members from Jindalee Apex formed The Jindalee Jets, and participated very successfully in " It's A Knockout".

Two club members participated in zone 6 Work Party to Papua New Guinea to construct a women's Resource Centre in Goroka Eastern Highlands Province. A party of 26 Apexians from Zone 6 worked alongside fellow Apexians from clubs in Papua New Guinea.

This coming October, will see two other of our club members participate in a Work Party to help fellow Apexians in Calcutta, India, carry out repair work on one of their schools.

Apex is Proudly Australian Made

o Founders - Ewen Laird CBE, Langham Proud CBE and Sir John Buchan CMG.
o Birthplace - Geelong Apex Club on March 10, 1931.
o Apex Week is held each year during the week including March 10 and/or as published by the National Office.

Apex is unique. Though there are other service clubs in most towns...Rotary...Lions...Quota...Jaycees... Apex is the only one formed in Australia. It started in Geelong, Victoria, in 1931.It was at the height of the Depression.
Three young Geelong architects had decided that the hard times of those days could be turned to good account by giving young men a chance to help others, and so give a lead to the community, which like all others at the time, was hopeless and despondent.
Needless to say, women came into it. The idea, so the story goes, originally came from a group of young women that formed a rather similar kind of club. The men said "Well, if women can do it, why can't we?" Anyway, Apex started from there. History doesn't record what became of the women's group, but no doubt many of the women were wives of the first Apexians.
Apex was an instant success. Here was a chance for young men to make their mark in the community.
Realising they had created something worthwhile, to be shared by all young men in Australia the "architects" of Apex began forming clubs throughout Victoria. The movement went over borders...into New South Wales, Queensland, South Australia...and across Bass Strait to Tasmania.
By 1939,Apex was firmly established in all states, with over 40 clubs and 1500 members
War broke out, Apexians...young, intelligent, vigorous...were just the kind of people the Services were looking for. Hundreds volunteered for service and Apex, like many other organisations ,had to go into virtual "cold storage".
After the war, Apex sprang from strength to strength, until in 1980 there were over 800 clubs with approximately 18000 members.
Clubs have been formed in towns and cities throughout Australia, until today there is scarcely a town of any note anywhere in Australia that has no apex club