ANNUAL REPORT 2019 BOARD MEMBERS CONTENTS Erick Acker President Peter Topp Sport Development Director William (Bill) Ker Secretary General Gary Reynolds Events Director President’s Report ....................................................................................................................................... Page 4 Aaron Jones Finance Director Margaret Hoekstra Governance Director Secretary General Report ............................................................................................................................ Page 6 Operating Highlights ................................................................................................................................. Page 8 OUR PEOPLE Board Activities .......................................................................................................................................... Page 8 COMMISSIONS Member Relations .................................................................................................................................... Page 9 Looking Foward .......................................................................................................................................... Page 9 REFEREE COMMISSION COACHING COMMISSION Events .................................................................................................................................................................. Page 10 Chair - Ian Matthew Chair - Peter McNeven Kenneth Golden Anne Goh World Cup 2019 ............................................................................................................................................ Page 10 Christopher Dolahenty April Jiang World Cup Highlights Page 11 Dave Field Labeeb Levy ................................................................................................................................. Erene Devall Sue Salter Test Matches ................................................................................................................................................ Page 11 Stewart MacDonald Monica Wallace Darrin Sykes Glenn Hayes Future Events ............................................................................................................................................... Page 12 Sarah Mason John Singh Sport Development ...................................................................................................................................... Page 13 Alister Stevenson Patrick Caroll Andrew Timoti Contributions to World Cup ...................................................................................................................... Page 15 Berkie Kapa Coach Development .................................................................................................................................. Page 16 YOUTH DEVELOPMENT WOMENS COMMISSION COMMISSION Referee Development ................................................................................................................................ Page 17 Chair - Alex Waldren Chair - Jassy Bhullar Nadeema Levy Women In Touch Development .............................................................................................................. Page 18 Jordan Zhu Cindy Toms Kaitlin Sigado Lily Singh Youth Development .................................................................................................................................. Page 19 Benjamin Smith Governance ........................................................................................................................................................ Page 20 Donna Fraser Michael Singh Governance Program ................................................................................................................................. Page 21 EVENT COMMISSION David Parker Chair - Gary Reynolds Finance ................................................................................................................................................................. Page 22 Adam Collins MEMBER RELATIONS Finance Report ............................................................................................................................................ Page 22 Hamish McLean COMMISSION Ian Milne World Cup 2019 .......................................................................................................................................... Page 23 Chair - William (Bill) Ker Kevin Hill Federico Black World Cup Referees 2019 ........................................................................................................................... Page 24 Rhonda Togipau General Account ......................................................................................................................................... Page 25 Financial Statements ..................................................................................................................................... Page 28 COMMITTEE EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Income and Expenditure Statement ..................................................................................................... Page 28 Constitution Committee Gwynne Ker Detailed Balance Sheet .............................................................................................................................. Page 32 Chair Erick Acker William (Bill) Ker Notes to Financial Statements ................................................................................................................. Page 34 Margaret Hoekstra Gregg Cropper Statement by Members Of The Committee ........................................................................................... Page 35 Garry Foran Stephen Upton Auditors Report ................................................................................................................................................ Page 36 Graham Quinlivan Nicolas Van de Rijt Prepared as at 30 June 2020 PRESIDENT’S REPORT PROJECTS UNDERWAY OR COMPLETED ERICK ACKER • Organisation of a workshop attended by • The search for sponsors. almost half of our member nations. It is my pleasure to present the 2019 Federation of International Touch (FIT) Annual Report, my • The development of a new graphic • The Touch World Cup financial eighth as President. identity for the Federation. reconciliation. The year 2019 was successful for FIT with our first I also believe the COVID-19 experience highlighted • Participation in and organisation of • The revision of the provisional budget for ever Asian World Cup staged in Malaysia and a the importance of sharing information and having various international meetings (Asian test future years. workshop in France valued by all participating in place key contacts and networks across the series, Pacific Games). members. regions that could increase the effectiveness of • A review of different policies such as measures designed to appropriately communicate • A revision of the Constitution. Governance and Eligibility. FIT’s accomplishments in 2019 were the result of during a pandemic. the leadership, professionalism and dedication • Launching a review of the playing rules. • A discussion on our risk management shown by its Directors, as well as the efforts of Shared governance would have allowed the strategy ensuring the integrity of the its Commissions and Committees. The outcomes representative members to agree on the measures • Appointments of Chairpersons, followed sport of Touch and the safeguarding of its outlined in this Annual Report were only to be implemented to protect players and safeguard by Panel Members at the Sport Direction participants (including the management possible through the commitment of passionate our sport, and I suggest members would more level. of COVID-19). and committed volunteers who willingly and readily accept the decisions quicker. A possible enthusiastically shared their expertise. hindrance to a shared governance approach is the diversity of the national Touch organisations due to The Impact of COVID-19 their quantitative representation, financial position, The Board, for its part has continued to be active and political, and cultural environment. engaged in progressing several initiatives, including Like the rest of the world, Touch was not exempt the establishment of its technical commissions, from the impact of COVID-19. However, the The Outlook For 2020 And Beyond examining its governance, reviewing certain disruptions have provided an opportunity for competition rules, finalising an events program each of us to rethink our way of engaging, sharing, for 2021-2023 and undertaking a comprehensive working, and being more in solidarity with others. As we look at 2020, it will be a year without revision of our constitution. international competition, although it is a year Constitutional Revision of reflection and positive action. This pandemic The list above is not exhaustive and shows that our has certainly caught everyone off guard, not just Federation is in perpetual renewal. Regarding our Constitutional revision, the Touch our sport. My challenge to each of us as we look governance model was established in the 1960s. to post COVID-19 and the future of our sport - is I would like to acknowledge the effort and work However, COVID-19 has revealed a need to build simply, is it time to change FIT’s way of operating of all stakeholders including our volunteers, a greater level of trust with members by giving and if so, what might that look like? and members of the Board as well as the National