The Albury-Wodonga branch of the Association of Independent Retirees is closing down at the end of the month after about 30 years.
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Administrator John Harris said the group was lacking new blood and couldn't find anyone willing to volunteer in the committee's leadership roles.
"For the past 12 months we haven't had a president or a secretary," he said.
"We've been sharing [those duties] between five of us and we've also approached people and advertised via our newsletter for people to fill these positions for the 2021/22 year.
"But at this stage we haven't had any volunteers for a president, a secretary, a treasurer or a newsletter editor.
"So we've had to shut it down."
Mr Harris said when he first joined the association 13 years ago there were more than 200 members from Albury-Wodonga, but now there were about 50.
"It's greatly declined over the years, but what I think we're missing is this voice that we have," he said.
"It's been an advocacy group mainly for state and federal politicians.
"We'll get a local member like Sussan Ley or Justin Clancy to come to our meetings and talk on a subject, like the budget or things like that, and then we'd have 30 or 35 people here that ask questions.
"So it was an interaction with those people and we're just going to miss that terribly."
Long time member and former president of the retirees group Ken Curnow said it was a loss for retirees in the community.
"It's losing that ability to be an advocate for services," he said.
"We try to improve our life in the community, nationally as well as locally, that's what we're losing."
Mr Curnow, said the association had struggled to recruit younger retirees.
"It's a bit sad, but that's the way things go these days," he said.
"All my vintage are either down there or still kicking, and we can't get younger people to come and join the organisation.
"When I say the younger person, the 70s, they wont join these things these days.
"I've got two sons who are more or less retired in their 60s, they'd no more come and join a thing like this than fly.
"All sorts of things around our community are declining, because no body in this baby boomer age grouping is prepared to commit to keep these communities going."
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Mr Harris said he wasn't sure if retirees weren't interested in volunteering for leadership positions or if they weren't capable for health reasons.
"I'm not sure what the average age was when I first joined, but I'd say it was probably in the high 60s, but now it's probably in the high 70s, our committee of five I worked that out I think our average age is 83," he said.
"I'm going to miss it, I like to come along and socialise and we usually go somewhere for lunch afterwards.
"It's just disappointing, I think we're a good organisation."
Mr Harris said the committee would consider staying open if a flood of new members joined, but he wasn't expecting them to.
"Our last meeting we had people from UPA talking about after home care and the other speaker was from WAW talking about fraud," he said.
"It was very interesting, but we only had 13 of our members and 5 visitors here.
"It's disappointing when you have these business people who come to the meeting and give up their time and you don't get a big audience."
Mr Curnow said the committee had done everything they could to attract new members.
"We've always had very good speakers and it's an embarrassment to have these speakers come to so few," he said.
The association is set to close on July 31.
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