Together Together Annual Report 2013-2014 Report Annual for better for Together for better ENDEAVOUR FOUNDATION Annual Report 2013-2014 Our focus is to provide opportunities for people with a disability so they may participate in the everyday life of the community. OUR CORE VALUES respect inclusion integrity accountability OUR VISION To be a full service provider in the community services sector with a focus on the individual needs of vulnerable people especially those with an intellectual disability To advocate for people with a disability To deliver leading services to ensure people have choice in the services they acquire To be a sustainable and influential organisation Contents 2 21 47 64 Chairman’s Innovation in Corporate Financial Report Client Services Overview Services 3 53 70 CEO’s 27 Corporate Summary Report National Governance Financial Strategy Report 4 58 Year in 31 Corporate 91 Review Leadership, Governance With 2013-2014 Advocacy & Framework Thanks Membership 9 60 92 Disability & 37 Board of Corporate Community Fundraising, Directors Information Services Corporate Supporters & Community 62 15 Events Executive Employment Management Services Endeavour Foundation Annual Report 2013-2014 1 Chairman’s Report It is with great pleasure that I introduce the 2013-2014 Endeavour Foundation has recognised the many challenges annual report detailing the activities, finances and which the NDIS presents, and we have positioned ourselves performance of Endeavour Foundation. accordingly. We are now better equipped to ensure that people with a disability have choice and the opportunity to It has been an extraordinary year in many ways. Realisation control their own life. of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS) and steps taken by Endeavour Foundation in readiness for the We are moving from an underfunded grants-based system new disability landscape have been top of the agenda. The to a structure whereby people with a disability and families organisation is moving forward at a great pace, and we are will make their own choices about services and supports. Together for Better in many ways. Endeavour Foundation is preparing the new models and systems to become a service provider of choice. At the official opening of the Kawana Waters Learning and Lifestyle on the Sunshine Coast I spoke about the The new ventures, such as mergers and acquisitions, give importance of Endeavour Foundation being at the forefront Endeavour Foundation strength in depth which we have not of the disability sector. To do that we must continue to had before. Our footprint is larger than ever because this is evolve and be inspired by our forebears. Over the years, an organisation which has never believed in being limited in thousands of people have shown amazing enterprise and its scope. Since our formation in 1951, we have welcomed fortitude to drive this organisation forward. opportunities to broaden our horizons and challenge the norm. Disability does not recognise boundaries, and neither At the beginning of the fiscal year on 1 July 2013, the do we. rhetoric became reality and the NDIS was launched. Trial sites involved were in Tasmania, for young people aged The establishment of the National Council is also an 15-24, in South Australia for children up to the age of 14, exciting and positive development, which opens another and in the Barwon area of Victoria and the Hunter region of channel of communication for stakeholders. The Council New South Wales, for people up to 65 years old. is made up of members from every Endeavour Foundation Area Committee. It has a voice in the governance of the This year it has been launched in the Australian Capital organisation, by assisting the Board of Directors to review Territory, the Barkly region of the Northern Territory, and the supports and services and providing feedback for the people Perth Hills area of Western Australia. It is also expanding in we support, their families and carers. In the future, people the Lake Macquarie area of New South Wales. in organisations which merge with Endeavour Foundation The progressive roll out of the full NDIS across all states will have immediate representation after forming an Area and territories will start in July 2016. All eligible residents will Committee approved by the Board. be covered by July 2018 in New South Wales and by July Endeavour Foundation has been strengthening its position 2019 in Queensland and Victoria. in readiness for the NDIS and beyond. For decades our Yes, it seems to be taking an age, but we are getting there. staff, supporters and most of all the people at the heart of It must not be forgotten that the NDIS was still an issue what we do have adapted to challenges and opportunities for debate as emphasised on this page in the 2011-2012 as they have arisen. We must continue in that spirit as we annual report. In two years we have made enormous strides face an exciting future together. towards person-centred support for people with a disability. Then it was a hope; now it is happening. Grant Murdoch Chairman of the Board of Directors 2 Endeavour Foundation Annual Report 2013-2014 CEO’s Report Endeavour Foundation has moved forward in many service providers, such as our organisation, challenge ways during 2013-2014. As an organisation we have themselves, assess who we are and where we want to responded to changes in the disability sector, and we go, and face choices which can lead to difficult decisions. are establishing a solid foundation on which to build However, we will not forget why we are doing it. We must into the future. Our trading results are pleasing given ask ourselves at every turn whether it will bring greater the significant ongoing challenges in the areas in which choice, control, independence and inclusion for people with we operate. a disability. If – there’s that word again – we are confident that what we are doing is ensuring better outcomes, then we The National Disability Insurance Scheme is bringing are meeting these criteria. many opportunities. Endeavour Foundation’s Board of Directors, Executive Management team, staff and wonderful In 2013-2014, Endeavour Foundation completed further volunteers are striving to ensure we are ready. Through all amalgamations with other like-minded organisations. of this though, only one thing matters. We must never lose Merging with VATMI Industries in Victoria, and making the focus of why we were established: to support people sure that 68 people with a disability on the Fraser Coast with a disability. had continued support after Bay Support Services Group relinquished its Queensland government contracts, has There was much discussion in the 2011 Productivity given us a larger footprint and an increased range of service Commission Inquiry Report on Disability Care and Support offerings. Since June 2014 we have also amalgamated with about how the sector must put people with a disability at the Capricornia Respite Care Association (CRCA), Compass heart of what we do. Much was said about capacity-building, Whitsundays, Community Solutions Group (and newly skill-development, and independence. It was and remains merged entities Personnel West and Acclaim). This gives valid and true. However, this is not new. us enormous breadth and diversity as a community service In 1951, a group of distressed but committed parents provider. It is an important step which will help us face the started the journey which led to the formation of Endeavour exciting future with increased confidence. Foundation. They followed the simple strategy that We continue to talk with other organisations about potential everything they did, every dollar they raised, was for the mergers which would broaden the scope of Endeavour people they loved to have greater opportunities in life. Foundation. It is necessary that we form strategic This established the absolutely fantastic tradition of putting partnerships because the National Disability Insurance people we support at the heart of what we do. This must Scheme world is an open market and consumers will shape always be the case. the services through their choices. We must adapt our If we can ensure that all of our strategies, all of our plans, all approaches to ensure we can offer the best services to of our thoughts about the way forward, and all of our actions people with a disability, while applying proper due diligence have the same simple philosophy then we will succeed. I to safeguard the benefits people currently receive. am reminded about Rudyard Kipling’s powerful poem ‘If’. There have been challenges, opportunities and changes Kipling challenges the reader: ‘If you can dream – and not throughout 2013-2014, and there will be more over the make dreams your master. If you can think – and not make next few years. Together we can create our own future by thoughts your aim’, emphasising that we must work to ensuring that people with a disability remain at the core of achieve our goals. In much the same way, the parents who all that we do. Thank you for joining with me to be part of it. set out to change the way their children were treated more than 60 years ago set the tone for us. The National Disability Insurance Scheme is one of Australia’s greatest social achievements. It is bringing choice, independence and control for people with a disability where there was once none. It also ensures that disability David Barbagallo Chief Executive Officer Endeavour Foundation Annual Report 2013-2014 3 Year in Review 2013–2014 JULY 2013 SEPTEMBER 2013 Action packed Queensland 2013 Golf challenge Great Endeavour Rally Sixty-eight golfers teed off for Endeavour Foundation’s Corporate Golf Challenge at the Virginia Golf Club. The 3,500km odyssey took 42 teams and their vehicles Golfers had a fun day on the green and vied for a hole- from Caloundra to Far North Queensland via the reefs, in-one prize valued at $50,000.