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Annual Report 2013 Celebrating 60 Years Annual Report 2013 CELEBRATING 60 YEARS www.selwyncare.org.nz A Annual Report 2013 Contents 1 The Year in Review 2 Chair’s Report 4 Chief Executive Officer’s Report 6 Charity 8 Learning 10 Community 12 Villages 14 Heritage - Celebrating 60 years 16 Chief Financial Officer’s Report 18 Consolidated Financial Statements 24 Corporate Governance 27 The Selwyn Way 28 Donations and Bequests 2013 29 Foundation Contacts The Selwyn Foundation, PO Box 8203, Symonds Street, Auckland 1150. Level 4, 1 Nugent Street, Grafton, Auckland 1023, New Zealand Tel: (64-9) 845-0838, Fax: (64-9) 845-0700 www.selwyncare.org.nz CELEBRATING 60 YEARS • We had another successful • The new role of Volunteer year financially, with increased Programme Manager was operating profits flowing established to develop a through to an increase in structured and comprehensive The Year in Review grants and charitable activity. volunteer programme at each of The Foundation maintains a our villages and care facilities. positive outlook for its future Volunteers give of their time, financial position. talents and skills in many varied Highlights ways, and their support adds • Selwyn House, our innovative great value to Selwyn’s work to new community living home for 2013 promote a culture of ageing well. for single older people, opened at Hansen Close in Birkenhead. • Three new independent living The new facility provides apartments opened at our high quality, supported rental larger villages in Auckland – accommodation and marks the 26-unit Newman-Reid an exciting addition to Selwyn’s Apartments at Selwyn Village, range of community-based and the Gowing and Kay Hawk services. Apartments offering a combined total of 45 new homes at Selwyn • New Selwyn Centres opened Heights village. for the first time in the Waikato and in Christchurch, bringing • The next phase in the the total number of Centres development of Selwyn Heights to thirty-nine. village got underway, with the • Our residential care facilities construction of a prestigious achieved excellent results in five storey building which will Ministry of Health certification comprise 56 apartments and audits, and our independent additional community amenities. living facilities attained The new complex, due to open the maximum three years’ in November 2014, is to be accreditation following audits named the Reeves Apartments, by the Retirement Villages in honour of the late Right Association of New Zealand. Reverend and Honourable Sir Paul Reeves, Archbishop • Our fourth annual gerontology and Primate of New Zealand nurses’ professional and Governor General of development conference was New Zealand. the largest yet. This major in-house training event is also open to gerontology nurses from the wider healthcare sector and is the only conference of its kind in the country. • The Selwyn Centre for Ageing and Spirituality continued its nationwide education programme, with a series of seminars on spiritual care in healthcare and a conference on the latest New Zealand research on ageing and spirituality, contributing to raising awareness of the subject amongst pastoral caregivers, chaplains and health and aged care workers. The Selwyn Foundation 1 This year’s Diamond Jubilee is This philosophy - founded in great cause for celebration, and Faith - makes us unique in the also cause for reflection – for aged care and retirement Chair’s Report taking stock of what has been village sector and illustrates our achieved over the last sixty years, authenticity and breadth of activity. as well as looking to the future This will be our framework as we and the ever more pressing go forward, encapsulating the challenges that an ageing society essence of the Selwyn Mission and Tradition and will present. Many have been driving our charitable Mission, helped and supported over the research interests, community innovation years through Selwyn’s Mission, support and culture within our but – in 2014 – we find there is village environments. combine to much still to do. As we look to the future, we create new In reflecting on how far we’ve do not forget those whose come, we’ve also spent time endeavours have contributed to opportunities considering how we can use the Foundation’s enduring success. our experience, knowledge and In marking sixty years of service surpluses to benefit as many older and operation at Selwyn Village people as possible, especially, on 22 May 2014, we will observe those who are vulnerable or in our inaugural ‘Founders’ Day’ to greatest need. To this end, in honour the courage and foresight addition to implementing the first of Selwyn’s founding fathers in objectives of our five-year Strategic establishing a dedicated service Plan (designed to deliver on for the welfare of ageing people. our strategic goals for the As part of a broader programme, medium-term), our CEO and to establish long-lasting traditions Senior Leadership Team have that will preserve the Foundation’s developed a comprehensive, ten history and significant milestones, CHAIR, KAY HAWK year Growth Plan that will see we are keen to commemorate us build new facilities, revitalise in a meaningful way those our villages and expand our individuals who have influenced offering to a wider section of the and enriched the development older population. of the organisation since 1954. Therefore, on Founders’ Day, we Whilst reviewing our business will acknowledge and thank all in this way, we have reflected our Life Members, Companions on our branding and how we and Friends of Selwyn who have communicate to our various provided visionary leadership and audiences the range of services given so generously of their skills, we are able to offer. In reaffirming time and resources and in many who we are and why we exist, we other ways to make Selwyn the have aligned our areas of operation respected name that it is today. into a simple brand structure – that of Charity, Learning, Community With regard to the overarching and Villages – and developed a roles and responsibilities of key statement that describes and The Selwyn Foundation Board informs all our activity: of Trustees – and its input into Selwyn’s ongoing development – to care for older additional terms of reference have people, you have to recently been formulated relating to the governance and oversight of care about them. the work of the Foundation as In other words, everything we a whole. do is focussed on caring about older people. 2 Annual Report 2013 CELEBRATING 60 YEARS Specifically, the frequency of the Selwyn Board for their valued In this, our 60th Board meetings has increased to service and our sincere thanks for monthly, with progress against their skilled business management anniversary, the each of the seven strategic goals advice and support over the years. Foundation is proud to be reviewed twice a year, and members of the Senior Leadership In this, our 60th anniversary, of its past, and Team invited to attend the the Foundation is proud of its ambitious for all relevant sub-committee meetings past, and ambitious for all it can it can achieve for as required. We have developed achieve for ageing people in the and implemented a process for years to come. With the combined ageing people in the Board succession. In 2014, the talents and commitment of our years to come. Board will continue to refine excellent Trustees, Executive team, its process of self-review and management and staff – and evaluation of the performance of with the best of tradition and the CEO. Our understanding of innovation coming together to Tikanga and how to incorporate provide a unique positioning this into the way we govern will for the Foundation – the Selwyn continue to be developed, and brand will continue to be relevant, we will be assisted in this process progressive and well grounded by the Venerable Lloyd Popata, in a future that most certainly Archdeacon of Tamaki Makaurau, will be dynamic and flexible in who was appointed to the role of how services will be provided to Pou Tikanga for the Foundation the ageing and most vulnerable last year. of society. I would like to thank my fellow Board Members for their expert advice and guidance in the last twelve months, and formally welcome our outstanding new Kay Hawk appointees, Helen Melrose and Chair Jan Nichols, who joined in 2013. The Selwyn Foundation As our colleagues, Deputy Chair March 2014 John Cameron and Jim Frater, will both be retiring at our 2014 AGM, I would like to express my deep appreciation on behalf of The Selwyn Foundation 3 In 2014, we celebrate the Similarly, by our funding of 60th anniversary of Selwyn research studies in gerontology Chief Executive Village. This iconic retirement and aged care, and grants to Officer’s Report community was the first of its charitable groups concerned with kind in New Zealand, out of the welfare of older adults, we have which The Selwyn Foundation endeavoured to use our resources was formed in 1967. Sixty years to maximum effect. on, both Selwyn Village and Building The Selwyn Foundation are In what was an extremely busy going from strength-to-strength year, I would mention the following for an – each with renewed impetus, highlights: great potential and an exciting • The excellent results achieved exciting future ahead that will benefit by our care facilities and ever greater numbers of older retirement villages following future people in New Zealand. their respective certification Over the past twelve months, the audits, and the highly-prized Foundation has continued to focus Cornerstone accreditation on innovation, excellence and awarded to our Selwyn Village our customers in terms of how we Medical Centre by the Royal provide services not only within New Zealand College of our retirement villages and care General Practitioners. facilities, but also in our outreach • Our focus on clinical governance to the wider community.
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