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Annual Report | 2014 We see the ability within. Annual General Meeting Time: 2.00pm Date: Wednesday 21 October Place: Town Hall Reception Room Annual Report | 2014 - 2015 StGiles Therapy StGiles PAT You can find us at Amy Road Offering specialist Speech Launceston, and Pathology and Occupational Gant Street, Lenah Valley. Therapy support to help you We are a highly skilled explore assistive technologies team of professionals to suit your individual needs. that supports • Physiotherapy, • Occupational Therapy, • Speech Pathology, • Psychology and • Social Work. StGiles World of Giving Our highly trained We are located at our professional team are in touch Amy Road Head Office in with the latest developments. Launceston and in Gant St Lenah Valley. We are constantly in touch with the Tasmanian community, raising awareness and funds to go towards new play equipment, through to chair StGiles Support Services development. If you would like To help you and your family to help with fundraising, are along the way, we provide a part of a club or team or would wide range of personalised like to personally volunteer your plans, accommodation, family time or services we welcome support and respite services. your call. It’s an important part of what we do. StGiles SEMAT We’re a unique service offering customised seating, prescription and provision including wheelchairs, shower chairs, office and lounge seating. StGiles Society Inc. President Director, James McKee Chief Executive Mayor of Launceston, Elected Director in 2010, Mr McKee Ian R Wright Alderman Albert van Zetten has recently been appointed to the role of Director-Northern Cities Major Development Initiative. Board of Directors Executive Team Mark Deverell Chairman, John Dent OAM Director, Hon Justice Robert Director-Service Delivery Pearce Mr Dent was elected chairman in & Development 2012. He is a registered land surveyor Past Chairman who was elected to Kirsty Bartlett Clark in private practice in Launceston and the Board in 2003. Mr Pearce is a Director-Service Innovation is a parent of two children, one of member of the Northern Tasmanian & Enhancement whom has a disability. Mr Dent has Health and Medical Human Research an active community life including Ethics Committee and is a Member Amanda Bailey former State President and National of the Bench of the Tasmanian Director-People & Culture Vice President of Rural Youth. Through Supreme Court. his involvement with the Launceston Senior Management Rotary Club, he is a Paul Harris Fellow. Director, Tiina Sexton Philip Lynch Ms Sexton joined the Board in Chief Financial Office Deputy Chairman, Martin Rees May 2014 as its first representative Ally White Mr Rees was elected deputy chairman from Southern Tasmania. She is an Operations Manager of Allied Health in 2012 and has been a director of experienced non-executive director Danielle Blewett StGiles since 1997. He is currently who has consistently demonstrated Community Engagement contracted to KPMG with a focus a strong ability in ethics and corporate & Fundraising on providing commercial advice to governance. a small number of corporate clients Jim Sullivan Information Technology & while undertaking valuation and other Director, Kym Goodes consulting assignments. Communication Services Appointed to the Board in 2014, Ms Goodes recently accepted the position Director of Finance, Ben Coull of Chief Executive of TASCOSS. She Elected to the Board in 2010, Ben is has broad experience in the public a partner at Synetic Group and is a and private sector and has a proven Fellow of the Institute of Chartered ability to operate at a conceptual and Accountants. strategic policy level. Director, Arthur Dobson Director, Anne Gott StGiles longest serving Director since Ms Gott is a practising solicitor 1978 and Life Governor Emeritus of in Devonport and is also a board StGiles. member of Melaleuca Home for the Aged Inc. Director, Mike Lichtendonk Mr Lichtendonk was elected to the Board in 1992 with a background in banking and finance. From the Chief Executive and Chairman... From the Chief Executive Planning in order to be able to play a meaningful role in a scheme which in itself is still evolving has proven At the end of 2014 we very challenging. Our staff have styled our year in review been challenged, our finances have publication as ‘’ A Rewarding been challenged, our relevance has Year”. The financial year been challenged and our ability to adapt quickly and regularly has been ended 30 June 2015, just challenged. concluded, continued to Our long and proud history clearly be a rewarding one albeit demonstrates our ability to react and tempered somewhat by the adapt to challenges we encounter. increasing pressures arising Our altruistic purpose sits proudly from the transition to the at the front of everything we do and as such we are very committed to National Disability Insurance meeting, what is quite clearly the Scheme. greatest test we have faced, head on. StGiles has quickly become a After sharing and agreeing our vision significant provider of services under with the Federal Government some the auspices of the NDIS trial which five years ago this year saw the has now entered its third year in completion of the re-development of Tasmania. The benefits of the scheme our Amy Road site in Launceston. This and the changes it is clearly able to has given us a state of the art facility bring to the lives of people living with which is more in tune with our present disability are already very apparent. As day services and allows us to deliver a provider of nearly 78 years standing those services in an environment this is particularly uplifting to us all at much more conducive to our clients’ StGiles. needs. With the development of our The magnitude of the change from new facility in Lenah Valley a couple the state based block funding model of years back we now have the ability to the individually funded national to deliver best practice services in scheme has always been apparent. modern facilities at both ends of the With two years of the trial site scheme state. We are particularly grateful to behind us and with less than 12 the Federal Government for seeing the months till the full scheme rollout value to the people of Tasmania by begins the magnitude of that change investing in both these facilities. and the transitions required have Perhaps the most powerful aspect become more and more apparent, not of the NDIS is its inherent ability to to mention real. change the lives of people living with disability and to value their gain for Australia and hope and new role of Chairman of StGiles. contribution to our society. Whilst the opportunities for participants in the It has been a privilege and an scheme has the necessary framework scheme. honour to serve in this role. to encourage this the ultimate success Three years ago we celebrated or otherwise will be dependent our 75th anniversary and received From them both... on us as a community. True social tremendous community support inclusion envisages that everyone will around the many events that were StGiles continues to be about people. have access to the resources and held. I continue to be amazed and The people we directly support, the relations that make life healthy, happy heartened by the extent of community people we and productive. Regardless of what support for StGiles and the work it indirectly support, the people in the systems are in place true inclusion will does. However, we must not become community, the people who fund not be achieved unless our community complacent, as there is always so us, the people who philanthropically as a whole allows it to occur. We all much more we can do that will not support us and the people who deserve the right to be treated equally be funded by the NDIS. Your support deliver our services. We are very and with respect. All of us at StGiles is truly appreciated and is continually proud of those relationships and thank work very hard to ensure this is the needed. each and every one of you for the case and we ask that you all do the I want to thank my fellow directors for opportunity to be part of your lives. same. their collective expertise, dedication During the past twelve months we and wisdom in setting and monitoring have continued to engage regularly the future direction StGiles will with our community. We always seek take. It is not always easy for a to do this in a way that sees us able totally voluntary Board to keep up to to give something back to the people date with the continually changing Ian Wright John Dent who so readily support us. Our very environment we find ourselves in but I Chief Executive Chairman successful Niche markets, iKnow am confident the Board will continue Trivia, The Balfour Burn and Walk to make the right decisions in the best with Me continue to be appreciated interests of StGiles and the people we events by all those that take part. help. This year saw us introduce something I also want to acknowledge the very special in the form of the Black extraordinary people who work at Diamond Dinner. Despite the antics of StGiles. The difference they make to ‘’that damned Rabbit’’ the night was a so many lives needs to be seen to be joy for all those it touched. believed. It is inspiring. There has been significant change From the Chairman... over the last three years and I expect At next month’s Board meeting I there will be even more in the next will hand over the Chairmanship of three years as the NDIS is hopefully StGiles after having the privilege to rolled out in Tasmania.
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