ANNUAL REPORT History, Winning the Premiers Plate Start to the Season
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/ ANNUAL2017 REPORT18 Financial Year (1 March 2017 – 28 February 2018) CONTENTS Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust 2 LETTER OF SUBMISSION 26 MEMBERSHIP AND MARKETING 3 MINISTER’S FOREWORD 32 MEDIA AND COMMUNICATIONS General Enquiries: (02) 9360 6601 4 CHAIRMAN’S REPORT 34 CORPORATE SERVICES Email: [email protected] 8 VISION AND GOALS 44 HUMAN RESOURCES Trust Office: Administration Office, Level 2, Sheridan Building 10 KEY OBJECTIVES 48 TRUSTEE AND MANAGEMENT PROFILES Moore Park Road, Moore Park NSW 2021 12 MANAGING OUR EVENTS 60 TRUST CHARTER AND CONSTITUTION Postal Address: GPO Box 150, Sydney NSW 2001 18 MANAGING THE ASSETS 62 FINANCIAL INDICATORS sydneycricketground.com.au 22 STRATEGY AND PROJECTS 64 AUDITED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 24 COMMERCIAL 110 CONSUMER RESPONSE 1 MINISTER’S FOREWORD Sport and entertainment events of all kinds were on show at the SCG and Allianz Stadium during the reporting period with the Trust continuing to provide an innovative game day experience. Sell out crowds for the Ashes Series in the ground’s history. A June 2018 Series, Anzac Day Cup and total of $1.4m was raised for the A-League Grand Final were the McGrath Foundation as well. features of the schedule, while The Hon Stuart Ayres MP the College Football Sydney Cup, Australia’s One-Day and T20 Minister for Sport AFLX and Sydney Sevens events Internationals against England GPO Box 5431 and New Zealand were equally SYDNEY 2001 offered something different for sports fans, who travelled far and competitive, while the extended wide to the sporting precinct. Big Bash competition attracted Dear Minister fans in droves to Sixers games. Sydney FC completed the best The Sydney Swans showed Letter of Submission season in Australian football incredible courage after a tough 2017/18 ANNUAL REPORT history, winning the Premiers Plate start to the season. They became SYDNEY CRICKET & SPORTS GROUND TRUST and then the A-League Grand Final in front of a bumper crowd the first team in AFL history to The Trust is pleased to submit the Annual Report of the Sydney Cricket and Sports Ground Trust of 41,546. Their thrilling penalty make the finals after losing five or for the year ended 28 February 2018 for presentation to Parliament. shootout win over Melbourne more games to start the season. The Hon Stuart Ayres MP Victory will go down as one of the They continued to dominate The Annual Report has been prepared in accordance with requirements of the Annual Reports club’s greatest ever moments. club land in NSW, bringing their (Statutory Bodies) Act 1984, Annual Reports (Statutory Bodies) Regulation 2010 and the Public membership tally to 60,000. Finance and Audit Act 1983. The W-League side also competed and the demolition of the stadium at Allianz Stadium last summer, The NRL Season at Allianz will be underway properly, with the alongside the Sydney Sixers WBBL Stadium was one of the most new Sydney Football Stadium to Yours sincerely team who played three matches exciting yet. The Sydney Roosters be built in its place, celebrating the at the SCG and would go on to won nine of their 10 matches at legacy of its predecessor but also win their first Big Bash title. the venue in the regular season providing the modern experience including a 13-12 golden point that our rectangular codes have All five women’s sporting codes triumph to win the Anzac Day gone without for too long. have now been played in the Cup in front of 40,864 fans. JAMIE BARKLEY precinct and a key part of the The SFS has served Sydney well It was a difficult season for Chief Executive Officer Allianz Stadium redevelopment and, when it opens in 2022, the will be to ensure the venue serves Australian Super Rugby sides but new one will be immeasurably our best female athletes and the Waratahs unearthed some new better. Better for the many fans well into the 21st century. stars throughout the Test period. thousands of fans who will visit The Wallabies played matches each year, better for the teams, More than 30,000 fans also came against Scotland and the Barbarians athletes and codes and better for to see an all-female line-up for in front of healthy crowds. the residential and business Sia’s unique live performance in communities that border the SCG The international rugby fanfare December as the precinct adds precinct. I can’t wait. to its long list of international continued for the Sevens World singers to play at Moore Park. Series event on the Australia I’d also like to congratulate staff at Day Weekend. Our Olympic gold the Sydney Cricket and Sports The annual New Year’s Test at the medal winning women’s side Ground Trust for their commitment SCG was an amazing spectacle, blitzed their competition to win the to serving the history of sport and with the event the biggest on the tournament alongside the men, for their ongoing vision for the NSW sporting calendar, creating without dropping a single point. future of live entertainment. thousands of jobs and bringing By the time the Trust’s annual report Level 2, Sheridan Building GPO Box 150 T 02 9360 6601 cricket fans from all over the Moore Park Road Sydney NSW 2001 F 02 9360 1319 globe to the harbour city. is submitted to Parliament, Allianz Moore Park NSW 2021 www.scgt.nsw.gov.au Stadium will be preparing to host Australia’s 123-run triumph over its final events. The NRL Finals England to win the series 4-0 Series beckons, as well as what was a drama-filled spectacle for will be a show-stopping closing THE HON STUART AYRES MP the 182,349 fans who attended concert in October when Michael the Test – the largest five-day Bublé visits Sydney for his only NSW Minister for Western crowd aggregate for an Ashes Australian show. Come summer Sydney, West Connex and Sport 2 Sydney Cricket & Sports Ground Trust Annual Report 2017/18 3 The SFS took its name after intense In the current structure, there can The SFS is anything but a private CHAIRMAN’S REPORT lobbying by then Trustee and never be enough seats for club for the wealthy. Australian Soccer Federation life wheelchair users, female bathrooms, At 1.45pm on Saturday, October 3, 1903 the State Minister for Works Edward member Jim Bayutti – a move that emergency exit doors and countless It is the most public of facilities, foreshadowed the round ball game’s other things to make it compliant open to anyone who can get their O’Sullivan and then NSW Governor Harry Rawson officially opened Sydney’s newest future long before the old soccer/ with modern standards and hands on a ticket and it has been sporting venue. new football transformation led by expectations. To retrofit and keep maintained and operated for more Frank Lowy. operating the venue is more than three decades without a single expensive than to rebuild and dollar of contribution by the NSW The Sydney Sports Ground boasted The final line of The Sunday Times’ As good as the new SFS was back in without major capital investment, is Government – even though it is the the “finest bicycle track in the world” preview of the opening event has 1988, some flaws were easy to see irresponsible in the extreme. property of the people of our state. as well as seating for 6000 resonance today with the writer from day one, with Rugby League spectators and room for 20,000 advising readers: “Tramway Week’s report of the first league The SFS has a conditional certificate We face a little over three years of more on the hill surrounding the authorities are running special trams match observing: “The driving rain of occupancy that expires in 2019 and disruption while the new stadium is playing field. to the ground every few minutes”. saturated almost half of all the mandates how it can be operated built. Most matches will be moved to seating, even though the stadium’s safely. We intend to do that right up the SCG and interim member From that first day, the Sydney One of Sydney’s early newspapers, architects insisted 75 per cent of until the final event later this year. facilities will be provided. The Newsletter, gushed about the Sports Ground became an spectators would be covered. new venue. immediate sporting focal point of The future holds better outcomes for When the new stadium opens in the city, providing the stage for Add in today’s concerns of all users of the stadium, better 2022, there will be new state of the “Some two years ago, the ground champions from all sports. compliance to modern building and facilities for the sports including the art member facilities in the precinct was a fetid refuse tip that grated safety standards and it is easy to see growing elite women’s teams, more as well – improving markedly on the Nowhere else in the world could a upon one’s olfactory nerves if you why we are about to demolish the and better facilities and seats for the current offering. single venue claim to have seen the approached within a mile of it,” the current SFS and deliver a world general public and members. likes of Betty Cuthbert, Arthur The light rail will be up and running paper’s anonymous correspondent class stadium for NSW. Beetson, Pele and Jack Brabham Anthony Shepherd AO It must be remembered, and it is a and the SCG precinct will be wrote. display their individual skills on the As Trustees with responsibility to our point I labour with all I meet, that the realising its potential as a sporting, same patch of ground.