ANNUAL REPORT - Community Resource...

ANNUAL REPORT

2012 - 2013

CONTENTS

Our Organisation 3

Chairperson’s Report 5

Manager’s Report 6

Project Officer (Capacity Building/POD Project) 8

Project Officer (Capacity Building) 10

Project Officer (Communications) 12

Community Builders Data Collection 14

Treasurer’s Report 16

Financial Statements 17

CRN Members 31

CRN exists to build the capacity

of local community organisations

in Blacktown, The Hills and

surrounding LGA’s.

OUR ORGANISATION

2012 - 2013 Annual Report

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CRN BOARD MEMBERS 2012-2013 Chairperson: Jason Guest (to December 2012)

Catherine White (from January 2013)

Deputy Chair: Patricia Formosa

Treasurer: Stephen Frost

Secretary: Debbie Robertson

Member: Catherine White (to December 2012)

Member: Vikki Hine (commenced August 2012)

Member: Abbas Raza Alvi (commenced December 2012)

CRN STAFF 2012-2013 Manager: Margaret Tipper

Project Officer-Capacity Building: Dev Singh

Project Officer-Capacity Building: Sarah Featherbe

Project Officer-Communications: Anthony Brown

Administration/Accounts: Brenda Ransom

Public Officer: Brenda Ransom (until 21st February 2013)

Debbie Robertson (from 21st February 2013)

Registered Address: 58 Armitage Drive, Glendenning NSW 2761

Postal Address: P.O. Box 149, Plumpton NSW 2761

Phone No: 9832 4762

Fax No: 9832 4802

Email: [email protected]

Website: www.crn.org.au

Auditor: William Tomiczek & Associates

Community Resource Network (CRN) Inc. has been working with Organisations in the Blacktown

Community for 30 years. It was established through some passionate people, including our previous

Board Member, Barbara Gapps, through Blacktown Community Aid in 1983. As CRN moves into its

31st year we continue to maintain the ideals of the original founders.

mailto:[email protected]

OUR ORGANISATION


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CRN continues to deliver on its established framework and CRN’s Purpose, Vision and Values are outlined below:

Statement of Purpose:

CRN exists to build the capacity of local community organisations by:

Empowering their voices

Providing leadership and direction

Promoting and supporting evidence and strengths based practice: and

Building collaborations and partnerships between groups and services

Our Customers Are:

Organisations that support communities in the Blacktown LGA, The Hills LGA and

surrounding areas. These include: Neighbourhood Centres; Government Agencies;

Organisations; Health Services; Interagencies; Individuals; Students; Community Sector

Professionals; Email Subscribers and Church Groups.

Our Vision Is:

For a community sector that empowers local communities.

Our Values Are:

We respect diversity and embrace difference.

We advocate for justice.

We believe:

people and local communities have the solutions to their own problems

strong communities require responsive localised services and groups

learning and adapting to change creates opportunities

CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT


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I would like to welcome everyone to this years’ report and congratulate Margaret, Dev, Anthony, Sarah and Brenda for their excellent work and achievements throughout another busy and productive year. I also acknowledge my colleagues on the Committee – Jason Guest, Patricia Formosa, Stephen Frost, Vikki Hine, Jason Cummings, Debbie Robertson and Abbas Alvis and extend my thanks to all of you for your support and valued contribution to CRN. At the end of 2012, Jason Guest, who had served as a Committee Member for a number of years and more recently as the Chair, resigned from the Committee, at which point I was nominated to this position. I thank Jason for his commitment to CRN.

On behalf of the Management Committee it is pleasing to report that we are in a stable position financially with legislative and accountability requirements having being met. This year has seen the organisation complete the Reclassification process for transition to the SCHCADS Award and review of processes to ensure compliance with the changing Incorporated Associations Act; Work Health and Safety Legislation and ACNC.

The roles of CRN are varied and encompass Learning and Development, Communications and Resourcing as well as Sector Development. To that end we have undertaken a range of activities including:

Sector Development: resourcing and supporting community service organisations and their committees to respond to challenges and promoting best practice

Learning & Development: including opportunities this year for skill development in Good Governance, Financial Literacy, Branding and Marketing and IT

Communications and Resourcing: provision of information; facilitation of interagency and cross-agency information sharing and planning mechanisms; representational roles; networking opportunities and relationship building

We work with a large range of other organisations, government agencies and service providers from outside the non-government sector. I would like to acknowledge the continued support of all our community partners and stakeholders and endorse CRN’s commitment to working collaboratively and maintaining our contribution to strengthening the capacity of individuals, organisations and the local service sector as a whole.

The POD and Connect Projects came to their conclusion with the finalisation of the funding and will culminate in the delivery of the final evaluation reports, which will outline and evaluate both the process and impact of these projects and key learnings for the sector. We hope that results of these fixed-term projects will continue to be built on, even though the targeted programs have finished.

We will continue to source funding to allow CRN to undertake projects that add value to our members and meet the needs of the ever changing sector. In particular, in view of the changing funding environment the Committee would like to explore alternative income streams to reduce our reliance on government grants.

We look forward to collaborating with organisations throughout the 2013-14 year and beyond.

Catherine White, Chairperson

MANAGER’S REPORT


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As always, the year speeds by so quickly, it only seems like yesterday when I was writing last year's

report and, now, here we are at the 2012-13 one! This Report reflects only a part of the work that Community Resource Network (CRN) has undertaken throughout the year. To cover it all in writing would make this Annual Report far too large. So here is a summary of some of the things that CRN did throughout the 2012-13 year.

The 2012-13 year has seen our CRN Team consolidate our roles and knowledge. Sarah Featherbe has settled into her role as Project Officer-Capacity Building and doing a great job in further developing the work commenced by Dev Singh with the Blacktown Combined Interagency and working with NGOs. Anthony Brown, in his role as Project Officer-Communications, is always increasing our technical skills and providing the sector with organisations’ activities across our area and beyond, through the email distribution network, the Agency Contact Lists and the CRN Connect Project. The year also saw Dev Singh finish off his CRN POD Project and leave us in August 2013. Dev has moved onto the development of his own business and all at CRN wish him every success. Brenda Ransom continues in her Bookkeeper/Administration role, which is very much appreciated.

The year saw some short “breathing space” as we settled into many of the changes that occurred during the previous year, i.e. The Pay Equity Case, the Modern Award, the Transition to Community Builders, the Australian Charities & Not For Profit Commission and the harmonisation of the Work Health & Safety Legislation. Many of these are matters that take up much time within an organisation around compliance. Some of these are Board responsibilities around ensuring compliance and the Manager and staff, operationally.

CRN sees our role as supporting organisations, particularly around the area of Governance with Board Members and Managers. This year we organised an introductory session of Governance for Incorporated Associations, which 46 people attended. The session was facilitated by NCOSS and PILCH NSW. There was general feedback that Board Members of NGOs required this training and, therefore, CRN has made arrangements for an advanced training day (but more on that in next year’s report). It is intended that CRN will look to hold further governance training to develop board members skills on a regular basis.

As part of looking at our planning for future activities our financial members were surveyed about how they saw CRN’s role and what they, as organisations, needed in assisting them in their work. One of the comments made by a responder to the survey, crystallised how CRN is seen as “resourcing, information sharing, awareness raising, supporting partnerships and new connections, representation to peaks and sector wide/issue specific bodies, trouble shooting, problem solving, specialist advice and support, advocacy”.

The CRN Board has taken on our Members thoughts and comments and are looking at this in line with our planning for future work. (A survey is currently being prepared to be distributed to a wider network.)

Throughout the year, organisations approached CRN on a confidential basis to assist them with matters that were affecting their organisation. In many cases we could deal directly with the organisation but if there was specialist advice required then the organisation was still supported but referred on.

CRN has developed an expertise around the development of relationships, leading to formal partnerships with many NGOs in the area. One of these was where CRN arranged a meeting around a state government tender in October 2012. 13 organisations attended and it was pleasing to see that some of the organisations formed a consortium and was awarded the tender.

I continued representing the NGO sector from the Blacktown and The Hills area on: the WESTIR Board as Treasurer; as the Regional Representative of the Local Community Services

MANAGER’S REPORT


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Association; the Blacktown Social Plan Committee; the NCOSS Sector Development Forum; the EOI Panel for the Mt Druitt Hub; C2770; and many others. As a sub-regional Peak, CRN has an important role to voice the concerns – positive and negative – of the areas that NGOs work in and we will continue to be involved, wherever and whenever possible.

I continued to be the NCOSS/WSCF representative on the 2 ClubGRANT Committees in the area –

Blacktown and The Hills. To assist Human Services members of these Committees, NCOSS held at two day forum earlier in the year and from this have developed a useful Resource Manual.

CRN sponsored one of the 2013 ZEST Awards and I was part of the judging panel for the 2013 Awards. What a fantastic opportunity to read up on all the great work that is done across the Greater Western Sydney area. The ZEST Awards come out of the Stronger Voice for Greater Western Sydney (SV4GWS) group, which CRN participates in. This year I contributed to a working group of SV4GWS that developed a Federal Election Kit that profiled five specific areas – the Community Sector, Children & Families; Indigenous; Environmental Sustainability and Financial Stress. This was distributed to all candidates (that could be contacted) standing for the House of Representatives in the Greater Western Sydney Electorates and the NSW Senate candidates. CRN hopes to use this Kit to develop local information for use by organisations.

I had the pleasure of being a member of the Blacktown Community Services Conference Planning Team. It was once again, a great event for the community sector workers, which was sponsored by Blacktown City Council.

The 2012-13 year saw the conclusion of our two Community Builders Fixed Term Projects – CRN Connect, for the development of websites for NGOs; and CRN POD (Professional Organisational Development) for NGOs to develop their marketing and branding skills. We are currently reviewing the external evaluations on these Projects. I would like to thank Anthony and Dev for their professional approach to these projects and the sharing of their expertise.

I wish to thank all of the CRN Staff, mentioned previously, for creating a collaborative and enriching workplace. To all of the organisations that CRN supports and works with, and our financial members, thank you for your ongoing confidence in the work that we do.

A special thank you to our Funders: Family & Community Services – Community Services for our core funding under Community Builders Renewable and Fixed Term and the Team at the Community Services Blacktown Partnerships & Planning Office. We also received a three year grant from The Hills ClubGRANTS Committee, commencing from 2013 to prepare an Agency Contact List for The Hills.

My final thank you is to the CRN Board Members, Jason Guest who left the Board last December and the current Board - Catherine White, Patricia Formosa, Debbie Robertson, Jason Cummings, Stephen Frost, Vikki Hine and Abbas Raza Alvi. It is a Board that has representation from all types of organisations (including a resident) from across our area of representation.

Margaret Tipper, Manager.

PROJECT OFFICER (CAPACITY BUILDING/POD PROJECT)


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It’s with great bitter-sweet sentiment that I write my last annual report working with Community Resource Network. I’ve always felt writing an annual report in this position hasn’t been easy, mainly because of the often ambiguous and immeasurable nature of the job and sector. This particular report has been the most difficult, and not because of any ambiguity or immeasurability; rather because I can barely keep track of everything I’ve learned and gained from the opportunity over the past four years.

When I started at CRN, I was bright-eyed and bushy-tailed about making an impact with my work, and anticipated that the nature of the sector and the structure of my role would facilitate that. My first year at CRN, I was barely finding my feet and quickly realized that the work was very different to what I first expected. What I didn’t anticipate was how much the nature of both my role and the sector would change over the next few years, and how much I would be impacted over that time.

In some ways this was frustrating, but thanks to the incredible support and encouragement of my colleagues, at the time mostly Margaret Tipper and John Carrigan at CRN, I gradually began to understand that the job was as much about simply being there as it was about doing anything. To

an outsider this can sound like a ridiculous approach to ‘work’, and a preposterous thing to write in an Annual Report. Four years ago I would have thought the same thing, and considered having a lot of bad coffee, with people discussing a lot of good intentions, an utter waste of time.

However, allowing myself to be there for my clients and colleagues, at times they’ve needed it most, is something I’m still unraveling the magnificent value of, both as a professional and as a person. I would go so far as to say that the very strength of our entire sector sits upon the ability of incredibly passionate and compassionate people remembering to simply be there for their clients and communities first, before feeling compelled to tick any bureaucratic boxes. It’s no secret that I’m still a fan of systemisation and structure – as challenged as I might be with the simplest of administrative tasks at times – but appreciating the value of patience coupled with presence is a life-long gift my second and third years at CRN gave me.

“The very strength of

our entire sector sits

upon the ability of

incredibly passionate

and compassionate

people remembering to

simply be there for

their clients and

communities first.”

However, allowing myself to be there for my clients and colleagues, at times they’ve needed it most, is something I’m still unraveling the magnificent value of, both as a professional and as a person. I would go so far as to say that the very strength of our entire sector sits upon the ability of incredibly passionate and compassionate people remembering to simply be there for their clients and communities first, before feeling compelled to tick any bureaucratic boxes. It’s no secret that I’m still a fan of systemisation and structure – as challenged as I might be with the simplest of administrative tasks at times – but appreciating the value of patience coupled with presence is a life-long gift my second and third years at CRN gave me.

With the successful application to start the Community Builders funded Professional and Organisational Development (POD) Project, in late 2011, I had a renewed vigour in the role and my passion for branding and marketing, and sharing its value for non-profit and community organisations, was given some space to develop, along with my own skills in project development and management. This past year, as the POD project has undergone evaluation and critical assessment, we’ve come to realise that it’s largely been a success in many ways, and yet the challenges organisations face in taking time out to focus on their own professionals development have never been pointed out quite so clearly.

PROJECT OFFICER (CAPACITY BUILDING/POD PROJECT)


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Perhaps most importantly though, what I learned and realised was something much more fundamental and persistent than anything about designing or executing a project. I gained new perspectives and much deeper insights into what drives some of the most inspiring people I’ve ever met to do what they do, and why it is that even in the face of stark challenges and restrictions, they continue to push themselves to serve their clients and communities with a great deal of selfless care.

I’ve grown immensely thanks to this privilege of being able to share in that motivation, and the shape that my career has now taken – working with entrepreneurs and professionals around the world on branding and marketing and their own motivations for success and fulfillment – would not have been possible if it wasn’t for all the experiences I’ve shared with everyone in this sector, including many, many conversations filled with tears, sometimes of pain and sometimes of joy. Ultimately, my own motivation to make my life about something much more than just a job would not have been possible without these past four years with Community Resource Network, and I will always be sincerely and deeply grateful for that.

This expression of gratitude also wouldn’t be complete without me thanking the CRN board, for listening to the outrageous ideas of a new kid on the block with an open mind, whilst still keeping a careful eye on their governance responsibilities, keeping our work grounded and steady. I’d also like to thanks Brenda Ransom, who despite our infrequent interactions made me feel very comfortable and reassured that my administrative mistakes would be forgiven, and I could always count on a warm smile with my payslip.

I’d like to thank Sarah Featherbe, who in a very little time has made a big impact on CRN and in the sector, and has made it that much more comfortable for me to move on from the Capacity Building role, knowing that it’s not only in good hands, but will be grown and enhanced in new and important ways. I’d also like to thank Anthony Brown, who I feel very lucky to call a friend well beyond a colleague, and whose insightful perspectives on our work, the sector and life in general, made my time at CRN significantly more fun and enriching than it would have been otherwise.

Finally, I’d like to thank Margaret Tipper, who hasn’t just been a more supportive and open-minded manager than I could have hoped for, but has been a supportive colleague, friend and even stern-but-caring mother-figure when I’ve needed it in the face of neglecting my own health and personal challenges, and the inevitable frustrations that came with that, which Margaret always handled with a lot of gentle patience and good humour.

If it wasn’t for the team at CRN, I would not have been able to make the contributions to the organisation and the sector that I have, and I certainly wouldn’t have gotten so much out of these four years, and it’s with great joy that I leave knowing I’ve made friends that will last much longer. I wish the board and staff at CRN all the very best in servicing Blacktown and surrounding LGAs for many more years to come.

Dev Singh, Project Officer (POD Project & Capacity Building).

PROJECT OFFICER (CAPACITY BUILDING)


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On the front door of my office I have a sketch of messy web, with the words;

“And you affect the entire web, its shape, its structure, its energy…Because everything is connected to everything”. (Unknown)

It reminds me of the importance of planning together, establishing trusting relationships, sharing knowledge and listening is to the role of “Capacity Builder”.

Interagency Collaboration

Over the last year, I have taken over the role of convening the Blacktown Combined Interagency (BCI). Although the guiding principle of the interagency has remained consistent; to empower organisations working in Blacktown, the development focus has moved beyond professional development to the wider policy context of the sector that we work in.

The reason behind this change comes from my own “personal ethical stance”, a phrase I learnt recently from a training day I undertook with Vickie Reynolds. The biggest concern I have for the community sector presently is that the values of the market, individualism, materialism and competition, are casting a shadow over other values, trust, mutual respect, cooperation, generosity and personal relationships. Many organisations and community workers can feel alienated from the political process; which at present narrowly views progress in material or economic terms.

The BCI provides the chance for attendees to engage in thoughtful, stimulating conversations around key issues and changes affecting the community services sector. I hope they leave with a greater understanding of the larger policies and structures governing and affecting their work. Some noteworthy issues the Interagency has shone a spotlight on are: the cuts to the sole parent payments; the roll out of the new disability insurance scheme and the effect this will have on our current practices; and Australian policies to Asylum seekers.

Other interagencies I have been involved in:

The Hills Generalist Interagency unfortunately looked like folding during 2013, as some of the long standing and committed committee members made the hard decision to step down. However, thanks to Vicki Wilde (Family Worker Training and Development Training) who agreed to partner with me to maintain the Interagency, we managed to find a great organisation, 2realise, who committed their time and resources to convening and running the Interagency in 2013. I look forward to continuing to support them next year.

I’ve also been happy to be a part of the Sydney West Family Child Protection Interagency, the Outer West Domestic Violence Interagency and the Hills Mental Health Interagency, this year.

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Got An Opinion...

Over the past few years I have become a staunch critic of the ‘NGO and donor’ role and argue that the sector is disproportionality led by the agendas of government, largely focused on service delivery in a more top-down model of development. I am a strong advocate that all government, including federal, state and most importantly local, should forge stronger more democratic relationships with community grassroots organisations to pursue more ethical agendas for change. This is the main reason why I value my role at CRN so highly. I sit in a rare position, where I am able to collaborate with a diverse range of people and organisations as well as have the opportunities and time to engage and contribute to public policy and special interest group debates. I am inspired everyday by the grassroots work that people do in these communities, especially with those people who have experienced such traumatic events in their lives.

“I am a strong advocate

that all government,

including federal, state

and most importantly

local, should forge

stronger more

democratic relationships

with community

grassroots

organisations to pursue

more ethical agendas

for change.”

Research

Unfortunately, my research project titled the “Interconnected Web” has had to be put on hold for most of this year. I would have liked to have had it completed by the end of next month, but looks now will not be finished to the end of April 2014. There are many reasons why I am passionate about this project, but perhaps the most significant is the opportunity to shed a meaningful light on the importance of relationships in our sector. Thank you to the CRN board for their support of this work.

A Thank You Note

I am so thankful to work with such caring, motivating, knowledgeable and experienced people. It’s no secret that I have personally endured a very painful medical condition over the last twelve months. The support I have been shown by my colleagues, Margaret and Anthony has been incredible, and no doubt contributed to my speedy recovery. Thank you for being so accommodating and reassuring during a very difficult moment in my life, I am sincerely grateful to you both.

And I mustn’t forget Dev Singh, thank for you stepping back into Capacity Building role while I underwent surgery. You have certainly left your mark on the sector: I have big shoes to fill…..BUT perhaps the biggest lesson you have taught me, is how to more confidently walk in my own.

Sarah Featherbe, Project Officer (Capacity Building).

PROJECT OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS)


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New and emerging technologies are enabling community organisations to promote their work and connect with others in many exciting and cost effective ways. CRN has taken advantage of some of these tools in order to improve its ongoing communication with and for its stakeholders.

We are now able to send and receive emails from anywhere, manage online surveys and bookings for training events, share files and calendars, publish resources on the web, post comments, video’s and photo’s in real time. The options available to communicate are growing every day, but the challenge for me and for many community workers is to find the right balance of effective and good channels of communication with our networks without adding to waves of noise that can consume each other’s time in our inboxes, news feeds and message banks.

Email Distribution Network

CRN’s Email Distribution Network (EDN) provides a platform for local community organisations to promote information about their services & programs. The value of the EDN for community workers is evident through the feedback we regularly receive; the 64% increase in subscribers this year and a growth in demand for CRN to distribute 836 emails.

Agency Contact Lists

Each year CRN updates both The Hills and Blacktown Agency Contact List’s (ACL). The ACL is a resource developed for community workers to quickly access the names & phone numbers of about 300 agencies operating in each the local areas. Over 2,500 copies of the ACL’s were distributed to around 300 organisations & individuals.

Interagency Networks

CRN plays an important role in supporting and strengthening the many interagencies that meet in Blacktown & The Hills. This year I have been involved with the following networks: Blacktown Combined Interagency, Pacific Island Mt Druitt Action Network, Blacktown Mt Druitt Migrant Interagency & Blacktown City Community Safety Coordinating Committee.

Website & Social Media

The CRN website provides online access to news, information, resources and links for community workers, as well as a sign up portal for our Email Distribution Network. CRN is currently planning a redevelopment of our website in order to increase the usability and scope of the content we can provide to our stakeholders. CRN also uses Facebook as a platform to engage with a wider audience around issues that affect the community sector and to promote the work we do through the posting of photo’s and comments.

64%

Increase in CRN email subscriptions

836 Emails distributed by

CRN in 2012-13

2,500

Agency Contact Lists distributed to

300

Organisations

PROJECT OFFICER (COMMUNICATIONS)


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Blacktown Agency Contact List Survey Results

CRN Connect

CRN received Community Builders Fixed Term funding to run a project, called CRN Connect, which aimed at providing local organisations with the opportunity to develop their own website. For each participating organisation the project arranged the necessary web hosting and domain name registration and created a customised website theme. Participants attended 6 training workshops, were given a user manual and received one-on-one support to learn how to update & maintain their website themselves.

The 2 year project came to a close in 2013, with 8 organisations participating through to completion. I greatly enjoyed the opportunity to work closely with organisations to help them learn new skills and to provide an avenue for them to promote their work online.

There were many challenges with CRN Connect, including: the availability of workers to attend all of the training sessions; the change in staff at some organisations; the time required for organisations to generate content for their website; the steep learning curve for some participants to maintain a website; and the constant change in web development technology. Despite these challenges the project achieved some fantastic outcomes, which is documented in an independent report conducted by WESTIR and is available upon request.

The organisations that have benefitted most from CRN Connect were the ones who were able to dedicate time to develop content for their website. Understandably, for some organisations a website may be desirable, however it falls outside their core work in the community, so finding extra time to add and update content to a website is a challenge.

To read more about CRN Connect and to view the websites of participating organisations, go to www.connect.crn.org.au.

Anthony Brown, Project Officer (Communications).

How often do you use

the ACL?

How often do you get results

using the ACL?

What do you use the ACL for?

http://www.connect.crn.org.au/

COMMUITY BUILDERS DATA COLLECTION


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Community Resource Network is primarily funded under Community Builders Renewable from

Family & Community Services of the NSW Government under the service activity descriptor,

Community Sector Development. Community Builders Renewable funding looks at Community

Strengthening through participation, resourcefulness, connectedness, trustfulness and

respectfulness.

During the 2012-2013 year CRN complied with the Community Builders Data Collection

requirements for our funding accountability for the second year of the new funding stream and this is

shown in the following graphs. (The yellow colour reflects our contractual numbers and the blue is

our actual numbers.) Please note, that the data reflects only our Community Builders contractual

requirements and no other work. It is estimated that about 30% of the work that we do has not been

worked into the original Service Specifications (or is no longer occurring) and we have discussed

with Community Services in adjusting this to evidence the contribution that CRN makes to the

community.

In most areas CRN has exceeded our contractual requirements and, where this has not occurred, it

is largely due to activities that formed part of each Key Task area that are no longer running, as

mentioned above. In KT2 please note that our actual number to organisations is substantially lower.

This is due to the fact that our data only records the emails that CRN has directly sent out. As part

of our present Service Specifications we were asked not to report on the emails that we send on

behalf of other organisations through our email distribution network! CRN also complied, and

submitted, with the collection of Surveys that were prepared by the Department of Community

Services.

CRN, for the upcoming year, will continue to record the work that we do and are pleased that

Community Builders Renewable funded organisations can measure the work that they do in

contributing to Community Strengthening.

CRN Sector Development Data

No. of Sessions Held No. of Orgs

Key Task Actual Contract Actual Contract

KT1 Skills/Training Program 9 19 102 209

KT2 Resources Developed 117 9 2761 3260

KT3 Comm Sector Capacity Building 156 38 987 535

KT4 Data Collection Project 3 3 17 12

KT5 Plans Produced 4 4 11 29

KT6 Sector Planning /Consult / Workshops

32 5 114 60

KT7 Partnerships Projects 22 9 213 177

COMMUITY BUILDERS DATA COLLECTION


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TREASURER’S REPORT


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The 2012-13 year has seen Community Resource Network (CRN) show consistency within its finances. The accounts have been audited by William Tomiczek & Associates who advised that the “financial statements present fairly the financial position of the organisation” and that “all reserves and provisions is justified”. Therefore, all financial legal requirements of the organisation have been met.

CRN previously has not charged any management fees and last year implemented a 10% administration fee on all grants, which you will note in the established Administration Account.

All funds from the Community Builders Fixed Term Projects – CRN POD and CRN Connect have now been expended with the completion of these projects.

CRN received the one-off Equal Remuneration Order Supplementary Payment under the NSW Government’s recognition of the Equal Pay Case. An appeal was submitted for a small shortfall but this was not successful.

There is a small surplus on the Community Builders Renewable Funding due to an employee absence who had no leave provisions available and, therefore, a shortfall on wages expenditure occurred. FaCS-Community Services will be notified of this through reporting requirements.

During the year CRN Board Members and Staff had the opportunity to attend a workshop facilitated by Matrix on Board to look at Financial Literacy. (This was funded under the Community Builders Transition Grant.) This was a worthwhile workshop that has led to more concise financial reporting for the Board. Also, Matrix on Board analysed CRN’s financial ratios and we are in a very good financial position. Although, it should be noted that CRN’s primary funding source is Community Builders Renewable from FaCS.

Finally, I would like to thank Brenda Ransom and Margaret Tipper for their operational management of the CRN funds.

In the following pages, I present the Audited accounts for CRN for the 2012-13 year and I recommend engaging our present Auditors, William Tomiczek & Associates to audit the 2013-14 accounts.

Stephen Frost, Treasurer.

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS


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Financial Statements

For the year ended

30 June 2013



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NOTE:

Deborah Robertson should read Debra Robertson

Raza Alvi Abbas should read Abbas Raza Alvi



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THANK YOU


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CRN would like to thank all of our members

who continue to partner with us in strengthening

the local community service sector.

We gratefully acknowledge that in order for

CRN to maintain our ongoing commitment to sector development,

we require the ongoing support of organisations, individuals

and the various levels of Government.

We look forward to working with you in 2013-14.

CRN MEMBERS 2013 – 2014 (AS AT OCTOBER 2013)


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2realise

Ability Options

Anglicare

Australian Foundation for Disability - AFFORD

Australian Red Cross-Greater Western Sydney

Region

Barbara Gapps

Bidwill Uniting (formerly Mt Druitt Com Ministry)

Blacktown City Council

Blacktown Family Relationship Centre -

Relationships Australia

Blacktown Meals on Wheels Inc

Bligh Park Community Services

BREED Taskforce Inc.

Bridges Inc

Cancer Council NSW

Care Connect Ltd

Catholic Care Social Services

ChildrenFirst

Communities for Children - Mission Australia

Computer Pals Blacktown Inc

Debbie Robertson

Disability Services Australia

Family Worker Training & Development

Fusion Accommodation Support Service

Graceades Community Cottage

Hills Community Aid Inc

Hills Family Centre - Wesley

Interaction Disability Services Ltd

Interrelate Family Centres

Junaya Family Development Services

Karabi Community & Development Services

Kittu Randhawa

Marayong House (now BACC)

Mountains Community Resource Network

Mt Druitt Ethnic Communities Agency

Nova Employment

Our Lady of Consolation Aged Care Services

Peckys Ltd

Penrith Womens Health Centre

Quakers Hill Family Centre - Wesley

Redeemed Community Services Inc

Riverstone Neighbourhood Centre & Community Aid

Services Inc

Rosie’s Place

Saints Care Youth Service

St. Michaels Family Centre Limited

STARTTS NSW

Swinson Cottage Family Centre

SydWest Multicultural Services Inc

The Hills Shire Council

The Meadows Schools as Community Centre

The WASH House

TNC Incorporated

Tri Community Exchange Inc.

University of the Third Age (U3A)

We Australians Are Creative Inc

WentWest

Wesley Mission ACHA

WESTIR Ltd

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