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THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TRUST ANNUAL REPORT 2007 THE FUNDRAISING ARM OF THE RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL FC.indd 1 11/7/08 11:22:59 AM Annual Report 2007 01 Contents An Extraordinary Hospital for Africa’s Children /02 The Vision and Mission of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital Background The nature of services provided by the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital Specially mandated services A centre of learning Patients come from far and wide The role of outreach Demands on the Hospital The Children’s Hospital Trust /05 The Children’s Hospital Trust Vision The Role of the Children’s Hospital Trust Governance of the Children’s Hospital Trust The Year in Review /07 The Chairman’s Message The CEO’s Message Trust Projects and Programmes /10 Financial Review /18 Independent Auditor’s Report Income Statement Balance Sheet Statement of Changes in Trust Fund Cash Flow Statement Notes to Financial Statements Detailed Income Statement Income Pie Chart Income and Expenditure Graph Donations Review /36 Developing long-term relationships – Trusts and Foundations Eventful Fundraising Gifts-In-Kind Donor Report /38 Major Supporters Event Supporters Gifts-In-Kind Getting Our Children Home Where They Belong /46 Trust Our Team /50 Board of Trustees, Patrons and Committee Members /51 CHT Annual Report 07.indd 2 11/4/08 3:05:00 PM CHT Annual Report 07.indd Sec1:1 11/13/08 2:01:45 PM 02 The Childrens Hospital Trust Annual Report 2007 03 The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital An Extraordinary Hospital for Africa’s Children Vision The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital strives to be a leader in specialised health care for children. Mission To be a leading national specialist children’s hospital providing quality health care to our clients, as well as valuing and advancing the frontiers of child health. BACKGROUND The idea to build the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital goes back to the Second World War when a group of South African soldiers of all races resolved that when they returned home, they would create a place of healing in honour of their fallen comrades. They contributed part of their salary to a special fund and once back on South African soil, planned the Hospital together with the Red Cross Society and Cape Provincial Government. The Hospital had relatively humble beginnings when it opened in 1956, but today, 52 years on, it is a cornerstone of paediatric health care in southern Africa – not only treating extremely sick children with great success, empathy and commitment, but, importantly, training others to treat them as well. THE NATURE OF SERVICES PROVIDED BY THE RED CROSS WAR MEMORIAL CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL The Hospital provides comprehensive specialist services for children. The staff of this Hospital function as a team in delivering these specialist services. In other words, the services are child- “EVERY CHILD BEGINS THE WORLD AGAIN...” centred, completely integrated and absolutely age- appropriate. Teaching, training and research are – HENRY DAVID THOREAU – fundamental elements of these services, as is constant medical self-audit and critical clinical evaluation. CHT Annual Report 07.indd 2 11/7/08 11:31:50 AM CHT Annual Report 07.indd Sec1:3 11/4/08 3:05:02 PM 04 The Childrens Hospital Trust Annual Report 2007 05 HIGHLY SPECIALISED SERVICES PATIENTS COME FROM FAR AND WIDE The Children’s Hospital Trust The Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital is the The Hospital’s young patients come from throughout regional centre for cardiac surgery in children. Some South Africa and from countries beyond its borders. quaternary (highly specialised) surgical procedures, The vast majority are from poor and marginalised such as liver transplantation, are performed at the communities and approximately one third of the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital which is children are under a year old. a national centre. In respect of public sector patients, renal transplants, complex paediatric neurosurgery THE ROLE OF OUTREACH and cancer surgery is provided almost entirely by the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital. Despite the great demand on the Hospital’s services, the professional staff manage to run an active In the Western Cape almost all complex surgery in programme of outreach, transferring paediatric skills the public sector done on children under the age of to fellow specialists in large regional hospitals – both 5 years, and almost all the surgery done on children in the Western Cape and in neighbouring provinces. under the age of 2 years, is performed at the Red In addition, the Hospital is something of an umbilical Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and Tygerberg cord to many doctors and specialists throughout Hospital. southern Africa in the sense that it provides telephonic advice and support on the diagnosis and treatment of A CENTRE OF LEARNING really complex cases. This service applies to doctors working in both the public and private sectors. Even In association with the University of Cape Town’s the general public has direct access to the Hospital Health Sciences Faculty, the Hospital is a major centre through its invaluable Poison Centre hotline. of learning, with the School of Child and Adolescent Health (SCAH) on campus. A wide range of paediatric DEMANDS ON THE HOSPITAL disciplines is taught and important medical research into the diseases of childhood is done at the Hospital. But while the Hospital does much to restore health This is particularly relevant because it is research set and maintain hope, the number of patients needing in the South African context and, as such, contributes its services and the number of parents needing to the advancement of children’s health in developing comfort and guidance grows steadily every year. countries worldwide. 250 000 patients were treated and approximately 8 000 operations were performed during the past year alone. “LET US PUT OUR MINDS TOGETHER AND SEE WHAT LIFE WE CAN MAKE FOR OUR CHILDREN.” – SITTING BULL – CHT Annual Report 07.indd Sec1:4 11/4/08 3:05:05 PM CHT Annual Report 07.indd 5 11/7/08 11:34:16 AM 06 The Childrens Hospital Trust Annual Report 2007 07 Vision The Year in Review The vision of the Children’s Hospital Trust is to support the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital in order to ensure that it maintains its status as the centre of world class excellence in children’s health care, training and research on the African continent. THE ROLE OF THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TRUST GOVERNANCE OF THE CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TRUST The Red Cross War Memorial Children's Hospital The Trust has a long record of outstanding is funded by Government, which pays its annual administration, project management and donor operational costs, an amount of nearly R300 million. stewardship. It is guided by its own Governance The Children’s Hospital Trust is an independent charity Charter, which provides all stakeholders with written and the offi cial fundraising arm of the Red Cross War guidelines on the effective and effi cient administration Memorial Children’s Hospital, proudly assisting it of the Trust itself. This comprehensive document aligns for more than a decade to upgrade and maintain its the Trust with best business practices recommended buildings and equipment. The Trust does not fund the in the King 2 Report. The Charter also sets out the operational costs of the Hospital such as staff salaries requirements for the meticulous fi nancial control of or utility bills. The Trust is a non-profi t organisation that all funds placed in its care, determines the objectives relies on the benevolence of donors to realise its aims to achieve best possible donor stewardship, describes and objectives. It enjoys a record of sound fi nancial the working relationship between the Trust and its administration, good governance and through careful main partners and ensures that fundraising initiatives planning, is able to assure donors that every last cent are always aligned to the Trust’s mandate and to the donated is spent on improving the Hospital. Hospital’s own priorities. Over the past 14 years, the Trust has raised over An evolving governance structure was approved R300 million in funds to address many pressing needs, by the Board in 2007. This is to align the Trust but much has yet to be done. Many challenges still face with its strategic objectives. New Sub-Committees the Red Cross War Memorial Children’s Hospital and were agreed to in 2007 including a Programme these must be addressed if it is to maintain its interna- Committee to fully interpret the Hospitals needs, an tional reputation as a centre for paediatric excellence. Audit and Risk Committee, an Investment Committee The multi-disciplinary approach and whole child care, and a Remuneration Committee. Each will have an the special equipment needed for the smallest of appropriate number of Trustees serving on it, together children and keeping up to date with modern paediatric with members of the community who have the relevant medicine are all integral to saving children’s lives. The expertise and the generosity of spirit to give their time. Trust continues to play its part in making this possible. This will ensure that the Trust maintains the highest standards of fi nancial control and accountability in DON’T COUNT EVERY HOUR IN THE DAY, MAKE dealing with donor funding. EVERY HOUR IN THE DAY COUNT.” (Trustees, Patrons and Committee members listed on pages 51 – 53) – ENGLISH PROVERB – CHT Annual Print ready Wayne.indd 6 11/18/08 2:48:01 PM CHT Annual Report 07.indd 7 11/7/08 11:36:57 AM 08 The Childrens Hospital Trust Annual Report 2007 09 THE CHAIRMAN’S MESSAGE THE CEO’S MESSAGE The Children’s Hospital Trust has developed into a successful and effective institution over the Upon returning to the Children’s Hospital Trust in March 2007 to take up the reins, I anticipated past number of years, and 2007 was a particularly important year in that progression.

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