The Forrest club remains alive and kicking, buoyed by a busy diary of bookings and money brought across after members from two other clubs joined it.

President Geoff McKay said the club had hosted hundreds of people in pre-Christmas functions so far this season, and more were due to come before the holiday.

In a regular week, about 150 patrons would spend time at the club on its greens, while others use it as a venue for fundraisers fetching up to $40,000 in donations for their causes. End-of-year functions would bring in an additional 50-130 people each event.

"It's our biggest revenue raising time of the year," he said.

Two new synthetic bowling greens installed at Canberra Bowling Club will also help it to save $40,000 a year on maintenance, not including water costs, while new solar panels will cut power charges.

"It's these sort of things we're doing that keep us viable," he said.

Many other clubs facing problems had allowed their finances to deteriorate too much before acting, a mistake Canberra Bowling Club set out to avoid.

"Even though we are very financially sound, we're not prepared to sit and get into a position where heavens, we've got no money."

A $75,000 grant from the ACT government had assisted with installing the synthetic greens, and money brought by the South Canberra and West Deakin bowling clubs when a majority of their members moved to the club had also grown its coffers.

"These changes will guarantee our future for a long time."