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39 Gymea Bay Road, Gymea NSW 2227 Phone: 9524 9559 / Fax: 9524 1179 www.gymeacommunityaid.org.au 03 Mission Statement and Objectives 04 Organisation Structure Table of Contens 05 Volunteers' Acknowledgement 06 President´s Report 07 Treasurer´s Report Migrant & Settlement Service 08 Report Gymea Home and Community 15 Care Service Report Community Development Service 20 Report 23 Audited Financial Report Mission Statement and Objetives MISSION Gymea Community Aid and Information Service aims to reduce social isolation and celebrate diversity. OBJECTIVES • To provide an information, referral and advisory service to residents, with the aim of relieving the effects of alienation by identifying personal contacts, community organisations and focal points of friendship within the Gymea and surrounding districts. • To facilitate community development and the establishment of services to alleviate hardship or need. • To provide a general community service accessible to all people within Gymea and surrounding districts. • To assist and relieve poverty, distress, suffering, destitution, misfortune, loneliness, helplessness and personal need. • To give emergency aid and assistance to the residents of the Gymea district. th 39 Annual Report 2012/2013 03 Organisation Structure Management Committee Community Migrant & Home and Development Settlement Community Care Finance and Service Service Aged Service Administration Casework, Community Advocacy Neighbour Aid/ Development Information & Social Support Room Hire Projects Referral Sutherland Shire Settlement Aged Centre- Tax Help English Classes Based Activities Services Sutherland Shire Community Settlement Multicultural Aged Education Support Groups Centre-Based Activities Services Information and Homework Club Special Needs Referral Groups Sutherland Shire Advocacy Multicultural Information & Network Referral th 04 39th39 Annual Annual Report Report 2012/2013 2012/2013 Thank you to our valued volunteers Management Settlement Community Committee: Service : Development Service/ Hatice Ozcan Allyson Blake Administration: Helen Schuler Alyce Taylor Helen Rosner Anne Robinson Linda Winner Brian Archer Cheryl Harte Meredith Gree Cora Montoya Christine May Phillip Squires Curtis Penning Emma O’Hare Russell Barnes Elena Nikiforova Faye Wherry Elena Kravchenko Fernanda Cunha Home and Community Elizabeth Corben Jenny Church Care Service: Graham Scott Joy Cook Heather Clark Joy Salvetti Angela Kiorttzis Helen Rosner Karen Wheatley Anne Silver Irina Annenkova Luz Tan Annette Ng Jan Treharne Maria Thornton Ashley Wei Chen Janet Stirling MarYam Zarineh Tabrizi Deanna Fleming Jiaxin Fang Mark Tatnell Dick Massaar Joan Wyman Mien Ng Elaine Grimley Joan Pinto Norma Pereira Fikry Bassiuoni Joyce Caesar Pearleen Goh (Ngai) Gillian Schuback Judith Dingwall Susan Melbourne Gillian Muslic Judy Cameron Takae Yasutake Jacqueline Shore Judy Lumb Teodora Rieck James Zhang Julie Ann Darlington Usha Patel Jennifer Henderson Ka Lai Vicki Hoare Johanna Massaar Katherine Robles Joy Cook Kathryn Watkins Keith Hutton Kendall Barrett Lynne Rutherford Kerro Lam Maureen Clark Kumudini Powar Olivia Storrie Lawrence McCarthy Olena Kronivets Loga Rengasamudram Paula Douglas Luisa Morton Ray Lightfoot Lydia Clancy Rosemary McKill Margaret Reid Ross Jones Nicole Howard Sandra Holczer Olena Kronivets Susanne Masters Pamela Pitkeathly Terry Cliff Peter Hogan Warren Kennaugh Rogelio Marcelo Wee Lin Han Silvia Espanon Sudha Natarajan Sushma Sachdev Students: Vivien Krepp Wendy Keswick Gerard Donno Yolanda Pena Greyci Zapata Usha Patel th Santiago Pereyra 39 Annual Report 2012/2013 05 President’s Report service. Our Volunteers are truly selfless allowing others in our Community to enjoy better lives. A very warm welcome to special guests representing our Funding Bodies and Sponsors, During the year, the Management Committee to our Clients , highly valued Managers,Staff learned of proposed changes in future to the and Volunteers and Members. funding of some of the key programs we provide. It has been a great privilege and honour over the past 12 months to have served as With this in mind in April 2013, and with President of the Management Committee of support of Sutherland Business Enterprise this very special diversified community Centre, the Management Committee and services group. Our day to day Program Managers undertook a Strategic Organisation comprises 3 Program Review with aim of determining the best Managers who are supported by the approach to capitalise on the skills and Finance and Administration Manager, eleven expertise of the Managers, Staff and Volunteers casual, part time and full time Staff and of Gymea Community Aid and Information some 80 Volunteers. We are blessed to Service. have such a highly committed team who wo rk tirelessly to fulfill our objective to reduce As a result, the Management Committee is social isolation and to celebrate diversity in investigating several options for moving forward our community. in the ever changing community sector. Any In reading this our 39th Annual Report one decision will have the utmost regard to the will truly understand the contributions made ensuring continuity of our programs, by our Managers, Staff and Volunteers, to the maintenance of our funding support and lives of so many members of our Community. retention of Program Managers , Staff and Their outstanding efforts and results are to Volunteers. be applauded. The process we have embarked upon will take Highlights for myself over the past 12 months some time and when we have made a decision worthy of mention include it will be announced on the new website # The special recognition afforded Gymea Finally, Community Aid and Information Service by # the new Website is alive and a highly Sutherland Shire Council, during the informative tool . A very big thankyou is Community Awards Presentations, for the extended to our Managers and staff who contribution made to the local community in spent many hours on this project and I 2012/13. implore our program participants to make use of your new website. # The 2013 Harmony Day celebration featuring the new short film ""I Sutherland Shire # as we move into our 40th year, I extend created in a partnership project between sincere thanks to the Funding Bodies and Gymea Community Aid and Information Sponsors without which we would be unable Service, Inner South West Community to operate. Development Organisation and Sutherland Shire Council which depicts the diversity # and I extend my appreciation to my fellow and richness that many different cultures Management Committee members for the bring to Sutherland Shire.The film has energy and time they provide, and commitment generated excitement amongst those that to assisting the Organisation in achieving the celebrate local diversity in the community. best possible outcomes for those in the Community needing of our support. # The Morning Tea celebration for our Volunteers and the opportunity to personally thank our Volunteers for their highly valued Russell Barnes contributions and recognize those Volunteers President, Management Committee who have provided up to 20 years of continuous th 06 3939 Annual Annual Report Report 2012/2013 2012/2013 Treasurer’s Report Having completed two terms as your Treasurer, major supports, including the Sutherland this will be final report and I start it by thanking Shire Council, to who we are deeply the Centre Managers for their assistance in indebted for their ongoing support meeting the financial obligations of our through financial grants, provision and organisation. This involves the strategic maintenance of premises and managerial budgeting process undertaken prior to the guidance. commencement of each new financial year the careful and painstaking effort to keep I do not intend to provide a summary of expenditure within the bounds of revenue revenue and expenditure within this report, received. as all of this information is available to you in the accounts provided. However, it would This is not an easy task, as revenue received be remiss if I did not thank our financial from grants does not generally keep pace with providers for their ongoing assistance, the increased cost of keeping the organisation including Sutherland Shire Council as going at full strength, particularly when we previously mentioned, the Department of are trying to develop new programs for the Health and Ageing, the Department of community, as well as continuing our existing Immigration and Border Protection, essential and popular activities. The general Tradies and all other contributors. I also annual increase in running such an organisation again thank Vera Au for her assistance as ours requires constant diligence to ensure throughout the year in regard to we do not overspend our financial resources. maintaining the integrity of the financial position of the Centre. It is not an easy task The 2012-2013 financial year has been and Vera performs her duties in a continually tight, as increased costs, particularly professional manner and is a key member wages, has resulted in a “break-even” situation of the Centre’s management team. Also I for the year. To achieve the “break-even”, we thank Rosanna Commisso for driving the have needed to access reserves previous development of the new web-site which is accumulated, including grant monies which officially launched at our meeting today. were earmarked for specific projects. These While all of the Managers and staff had projects have been completed as intended, significant