Port Fairy Bowls Club is hosting a Tradies Challenge in December

But in a fortnight they'll put down the tools and have a bowl themselves.

The bowls club will have a three- night Tradies Challenge for the community to celebrate the end of 2020.

It'll be held 6-8pm each Friday for three weeks, starting on December 4.

It's $10 per person which includes a sausage sizzle and bowls.

Participants are encouraged to enter a team of up to five people, including partners, family and friends.

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President Jack Smits explained the club wanted to get more people involved in the sport.

"We're trying to encourage some of the young ones down onto the green with their families, ready for a great Christmas break-up" he said.

"It's been traditionally an old man's sport and we're trying to bring it up out of the 1960s and into the modern era."

Lady president Jill Oswin said it would be a great way to build community spirit.

"Especially with the young tradies, obviously they'll bring their partners and wives along on the last night and the children and we'll have Father Christmas," she said.

Smits said current club upgrades weren't too far away from completion.

"They've (building supervisor) given us a completion date of December 14," he said.

"We're all hoping and pleading with them that it will be right by that date."

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