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BLIGH PARK COMMUNITY SERVICES INC.

ANNUAL REPORT 2016

Incorporating: The Neighbourhood Centre OOSH Youth Centre

Bligh Park Community

Services Inc.

Main office is located at Neighbourhood Centre 4 Sirius Road Bligh Park NSW 2756 02 4572 5898 [email protected]

OOSH Before & Afterschool Care and Vacation Care Cnr Guardian Crescent & Alexander Street Bligh Park NSW 2756 02 4572 7119 [email protected] Youth Centre 139 Colonial Drive Bligh Park NSW 2756 02 4572 0529 [email protected]

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Report 2016 - Bligh Park Community Services Inc. Page 1


Contents About BPCSI – Our Services ................................................................................................................ 3

Our Mission, Vision & Values .............................................................................................................. 4

President’s Report............................................................................................................................... 5

Our People .......................................................................................................................................... 6

Organisational Chart ........................................................................................................................... 7

Manager’s Report ............................................................................................................................... 8

Community Development Worker’s Report ..................................................................................... 10

Bligh Park OOSH Report 2016 ........................................................................................................... 11

Youth Worker’s Report ..................................................................................................................... 15

Facilities Report................................................................................................................................. 17

Our Achievements ............................................................................................................................ 18

Highlighting Achievements – Neighbourhood Centre and Youth Services ....................................... 18

Treasurer’s Report for the 2016 Financial Year ............................................................................... 21

Financial Reports ............................................................................................................................... 22

End of Report .................................................................................................................................... 37


About BPCSI – Our Services

Bligh Park Community Services Inc. (BPCSI) comprises:

Bligh Park Neighbourhood Centre,

Bligh Park OOSH and

Bligh Park Youth Centre. BPCSI offers programmes and services according to the needs identified by the communities of Bligh Park and South Windsor. As a strengths-based organisation we believe in people and their potential. Bligh Park Neighbourhood Centre provides a broad range of services and programmes. These include: Information and referral services Assisted referrals Advocacy Events Learning Mentoring Social groups Bligh Park OOSH provides a child and family centred approach to:

Before & after school care Vacation Care Incursions & excursions Direct access to family workers Bligh Park Youth Centre provides youth services and activities: In school programmes After school programmes Holiday programmes Assisted referrals Learning Events Mentoring BPCSI administers the hiring of Bligh Park Neighbourhood Centre, Tiningi Hall and Tiningi Youth Centre. Our regular day hirers in 2015/16 were AFFORD & Eagle Arts & Vocational College, Jelly Beans Play Group, Pumpkin Patch Play Group, Diabetes Support Group, NDIS Community Connect – Information to the community, OMNI and Craft Ladies, Red Cross Craft. Afternoon & evening hirers were Guitar Group, Pilates; Tang so doo, Hawkesbury Spiritual Connections, Weight Watchers, Bligh Park Physical Culture, Taekwondo, and Scottish Society.


Our Mission, Vision & Values

OUR MISSION

Bligh Park Community Services Inc. is committed to working with our community to identify needs

and to provide high quality services to meet these needs.

OUR VISION

Bligh Park Community Services Inc. is committed to operating with integrity and accountability in a

framework which is accessible, affordable and responsive to social justice principles and the

identifiable needs of a changing community.

OUR VALUES

Helping Other People

Commitment

Personal Development

Integrity


President’s Report

The 2015/16 financial year has again been a very challenging but rewarding year for all of us involved at Bligh Park Community Services Inc. (BPCSI) As President of BPCSI all Board Members are aware of how much work is involved in managing the service, which includes the Neighbourhood Centre, Out of School Hours and Vacation Care (OOSH), the Youth Centre and Facilities Hire. I would like to thank Catherine Murphy and the team for all their hard work this year. I am happy to report that all our yearly targets – set by our funding partners – have been met. Our major funding partner for community services is the NSW Department of Family and Community Services (FaCS). This funding supports the work of the Neighbourhood Centre and the Youth Centre. FaCS have been undertaking sector reform over the past three years. This has led to a lot of uncertainty regarding the continuity of FaCS funding across our sector. Unlike many other small to medium sized services, BPCSI have managed continuity of staff and have increased service delivery in this difficult time. The Neighbourhood Centre showed an increase in numbers attending existing programmes and services; and leveraged partnerships to deliver new programmes, including: Engaging Adolescents, access to the No Interest Loans Scheme (NILS) and the Diabetes Support Group. This year saw a large increase in numbers of people dropping in to the Neighbourhood Centre. Many of these people had complex needs and no one left without assistance or on-referral. As we are running our OOSH and our Facilities Hire as Social Enterprises that make a small profit; we were able to pay staff to spend the time needed to assist these people. If this trend continues to grow we will need to explore opportunities for other funding opportunities. Our OOSH has once again provided the highest quality out of school hours care for our primary school children. Most sessions are at capacity and for some sessions there are waiting lists. In June this year OOSH received a formal assessment against the National Quality Standards from the Department of Education and Training. Bligh Park OOSH performed exceptionally well. This is a direct result of the hard work, professional expertise and dedication of all OOSH staff, led by our Director – Debbie Doeland. Our Youth Service has continued to grow. BPCSI provide youth activities and programmes and a drop in service out of school hours. In school hours our Youth Activities Worker – Ricky Atkinson – also works in schools to assist primary and high school students with anti-bullying techniques, mentoring and anger management. Well done Ricky. Being part of a diverse, local, community service has given the Board the opportunity to be part of steering BPCSI to identify gaps in local service provision and to run services and programmes to ameliorate these gaps. The Board plays an important role in assisting the Manager by providing advice and assistance, in planning services and programmes and in ensuring that BPCSI remains in a sound financial position. I’m certain that 2016/17 will see us continue to grow and provide much needed services for our community. Garry Baldry President BPCSI


Our People

BPCSI Management Committee Office Bearers

Garry Baldry President & Pubic Officer Andrew Bracken Secretary Lynda Husar Treasurer Shirley Chambers Ordinary Member Gabrielle McIntosh Ordinary Member

BPCSI Staff – Neighbourhood Centre

Catherine Murphy Manager Jenny Wilczak Community Development Worker Skye Humphreys Financial Administrator Lynette Penfold Facilities Manager

Student Placement

Belinda Leader

Volunteers

Glenda Gavin Maria Sarina

OOSH Centre

Debbie Doeland Director OOSH / Vacation Care Jenny Marscham Assistant Director Kathryn Wheeler Educator Leighton Doeland Educator Jeanette Hall Educator

Casual Educators

Rebecca Worthington Jarrad Eldridge

Youth Centre

Ricky Atkinson Youth Development Worker Sarah Vassallo Assistant Youth Development Worker

Student Placement

Ben Armytage


Organisational Chart


Manager’s Report

The 2015/16 financial year has been a very busy time for all of us at Bligh Park Community Services Inc. (BPCSI). Managing staff who specialise in a number of disciplines, across three different locations, is both challenging and rewarding. Our staff specialise in: working with primary school aged children (OOSH); working with youth (Tiningi Youth Centre); community development; training; finance and facilities hire (Neighbourhood Centre). In 2015/16 we achieved all our funding targets. In addition to reaching, and in most cases exceeding, our funding targets; we also increased the programmes and services available for our community. Our successes this year are due to the hard work, expertise and professionalism of our staff. In addition to our paid staff we have had the support of our volunteers and our students undertaking placement. We have invested a lot into staff training and development this year including attendance at conferences, workshops, training sessions, meetings and webinars. Individual staff reports highlight our achievements during the year. I would like to thank all our staff, students and volunteers for their dedication, hard work and commitment. The funding landscape for small not for profit community organisations is constantly shifting. At BPCSI we have been in a privileged position compared to many other local services. This is because we operate both the Bligh Park Out of School Hours and Vacation Care (OOSH) and our Facilities Hire as Social Enterprises. We would not be able to do this without the support of Hawkesbury City Council (HCC) who allow us to use the buildings for community purposes free of charge. All profits from the 2015/16 financial year were used to run additional free school holiday youth programmes, our Active Youth Programme; and to assist the increasing number of people who drop in at the Neighbourhood Centre. Profits were also used for new equipment at the Youth Centre and OOSH; new furniture for OOSH and in building upkeep and maintenance. I would like to thank our Management Committee for their assistance and support throughout the year. I am grateful for their willingness to ‘think outside the square’ and to allow me to try different opportunities to bring programmes and services to the community. The profile of people accessing the services at the Neighbourhood Centre has changed this year. It is too early to tell if this is due to a higher profile of our services in the community; or if it is a reflection of an increase in financial and other disadvantage in the community. More people are accessing our services requiring direct or indirect financial assistance, requiring assistance accessing government programmes and services; and a large increase in people with complex needs – that is they require a number of short, medium and long term interventions. We have also seen an increase in the number of people accessing our services who report issues of family violence. In the last year we provided individual advocacy on forty seven occasions. I will continue to gather appropriate data on the needs of service users. Our OOSH and youth services are also operating at capacity or close to capacity in most of their sessions or programmes. Looking ahead to 2017 we will need to be innovative and entrepreneurial to further grow BPCSI services. One of the ways to do this is to work in close partnership with similar organisations in order to leverage our skills and experience to offer a wider range of services and programmes for our community. We have successfully partnered this year with Peppercorn Services Inc., Hawkesbury Youth Interagency; Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre; The Womens Cottage; NSW Police Hawkesbury Local Area Command; Hawkesbury Nepean Community Legal Centre and Merana Aboriginal Community Association for the Hawkesbury Inc. to provide services and programmes. BPCSI has entered into a joint working arrangement with the newly created Hawkesbury Unites for Better Services (HUBS), a coalition of similar services in the Hawkesbury. Another way to increase


service delivery is to operate more outside the traditional Monday to Friday hours. Yet another way is to direct more attention toward profit making activities using the Social Enterprise Model. In the 2016/17 year I look forward to working with the Management Committee, BPCSI members, staff and the community to ensure Bligh Park Community Services continues to thrive. In the coming year, along with our existing services, we will be introducing free counselling services, free food services and an increase of free skills training for our community. I would like to thank our funding partners: Department of Human Services NSW Department of Education and Training NSW Department of Family and Community Services In 2015/16 BPCSI received one-off grants from: Department of Infrastructure and Regional Development Hawkesbury City Council Our Service Delivery Partners Peppercorn Services Inc. Winmalee Neighbourhood Centre The Womens Cottage NSW Police Hawkesbury Local Area Command Hawkesbury Nepean Community legal Centre Merana Aboriginal Community Association for the Hawkesbury Inc. In Kind Supporters Hawkesbury City Council Staff from St John Paul II Catholic College (Schofields) TAFE Outreach Blue Mountains College Eagle Arts Vocational and Training College Catherine Murphy Manager BPCSI


Community Development Worker’s Report 2015/16 has been a very eventful year at the Neighbourhood Centre. I have never seen so many people “walking in” to find out what is going on. It feels great to be part of a team that is able to assist the local residents of Bligh Park / South Windsor area. Through our funding partner, NSW Department of Family and Community Services we are able to provide a number of services, programs, events and projects to the communities of Bligh Park and South Windsor. We provide a Community Hub – a place for people to connect with information and a place for people to access services. The numbers of people seeking information, advice and assistance continues to grow. In this financial year we provided 469 people with information. Our Community Hub activities also include hosting, or partnering with others to host, events. This year I was part of the NAIDOC committee and BPCSI hosted White Ribbon events. We provide Community Capacity Building by developing and delivering programs and services that people can access for free. This year we hosted Learner Driver workshops, Broadband for Seniors and the Diabetes Support Group. Our social inclusion groups include our Older Men, New Ideas (OMNI) Group and Friday Craft; which has seen a threefold increase of participants this year. We offer regular bus trips throughout the year which are always well attended and much enjoyed! We are continuing to offer space to individuals or organisations who offer low or no cost services or activities for the Community. Playgroup is at capacity. We attempted to get a homework club up and running but did not get enough interest from the community. We partnered with Peppercorn Services Inc. to provide an Engaging Adolescents program. With more people using our services it’s always a challenge to use our small amount of resources to gain the best benefit for our community. This year I have participated in ongoing learning to better assist our service users. I have attended workshops on Family Violence, Indigenous Services, Understanding Anxiety and Depression in Children; and webinars on NDIS, Tenancy Advice, Domestic Violence and Payday Loans. This has proven extremely useful as not only are we seeing more people using our service; we are also seeing more people with complex needs. This year I have assisted a growing number of people to a range of positive outcomes. This need for individualised tailored assistance is growing in our Community. Next year I am looking at building on our partnerships with other local organisations to provide increased assistance for our community. Jenny Wilczak Community Development Worker BPCSI


Bligh Park OOSH Report 2016

“My Time Our Place” School Aged Care Framework

PHILOSOPHY

Bligh Park OOSH is committed to providing a quality, fun program that allows the children to choose how their time will be spent at OOSH “My Time Our Place” (MTOP). Bligh Park OOSH is a place where children, families and staff are treated as equal and valued individuals. Every child is accepted regardless of cultural background, gender, religion and additional needs. BP OOSH offers a comfortable, caring and happy environment with acceptance and support, and to additionally nurture development and uniqueness of every child. Our environment will encourage children’s choices our program will be child orientated and flexible enough to respond to individual needs and spontaneous learning moments. Through the recognition of educators, families and the Management Committee, our service strives to provide a high quality program with the emphasis on children’s self-esteem and building confidence through activities. The purpose of BP OOSH program is to recognise interests of primary school age children through discovery, experimentation, active participation, social interaction, rest and relaxation. We look at developing the child as a whole by linking their learning and environment to the MTOP’s five learning Outcomes, principles and practices. BP OOSH encourages family involvement in decisions on policy developments and programming issues. We will be supportive to our families and committed to open communication and good relations between families, educators, children, Management Committee, support groups, local primary schools and community. BP OOSH takes an active role within our community and support the involvement of children and families to feel connected with and contribute to their world.


Updated: June 2016

Organisational Development

2016 has been another busy year for OOSH, responding to the many challenges faced in our sector, and advocating on issues affecting children and families in our community to ensure quality play, facilities and care for children in their middle years.

Our services Philosophy was reviewed and updated this year with our values and beliefs that underpins all aspects of our services operations.

Child Protection laws: “Keep Them Safe”, a shared approach to child wellbeing. Aim is to improve the safety, welfare & wellbeing of all children and young people in NSW. Supervisors have attained their certificates to adapt these changes in our service.

14-15 June 2016 our service received its assessment and rating visit.

The following Outcome Summary report outlines our service’s rating and outcomes practices against the National Quality Standard (NQS)

Quality Area: 1 Educational Program and Practice RATING: Exceeding National Quality Standard (E)

Quality Area: 2 Children’s Health and safety RATING: Meeting National Quality Standard (M)

Quality Area: 3 Physical Environment RATING: Meeting National Quality Standard (M)

Quality Area: 4 Staffing Arrangements RATING: Meeting National Quality Standard (M)

Quality Area: 5 Relationships with Children RATING: Meeting National Quality Standard (M)

Quality Area: 6 Collaborative Partnerships with Families and Communities RATING: Exceeding National Quality Standard (E)

Quality Area:7 Leadership and Service Management RATING: Meeting National Quality Standard (M)

Bligh Park OOSH is rated overall at

Meeting national Quality Standard (M)


Service Delivery: Before and After School Care & Vacation Care

Average Attendances: Before/Vacation Allowable Attendances 40 After School Care Allowable Attendances 50

Attendances have grown this year with permanent books and casual usage when we have vacancies.

We have an extensive waiting list for 2017; hopefully we will be able to give spots to all families.

This year has seen families bring their expertise and hobbies into the program which extends the children’s’ learning.

Vacation Care programs are well utilized with exciting excursions/incursions planned with input from children and families through suggestions and ideas.

Hawkesbury Garden Competition was entered again this year with great success. First Prize in Kids Garden Category. Right: Photo taken by Hawkesbury Camera Club on judging day.

Year 6 Farewell 2015 Beekeeping Presentation Children’s First-Aid

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Networks and Partnerships

OOSH forums are held monthly with Directors from the Hawkesbury region.

Meetings and planning from Inclusion Support Agencies for children with special needs.

Network of Community Activities offer workshops and mailings on a regular basis to keep OOSH up to date on guidelines regarding requirements for our services, as well as supporting us when needed.

Fortnightly staff meetings held for programming and evaluating.

Families who have donated their time or items to help improve our service. (Area 6: Collaborative Partnership with Families and Communities).

Mother’s Day Afternoon Tea Camping Stories Programmed Activities Bligh Park OOSH would like to thank and acknowledge our Funding Body: Department of Education and Training.

(Area 7 Leadership and Service Management)

A Bouquet to……………… The people we could not do without!

Firstly I would like to thank my co-workers Jenny Marscham, Kathryn Wheeler, Jeanette Hall, Leighton Doeland for dedicated years of professional, experience and support , whilst tough times make for tightening of our budget they never lose sight of our key stakeholders ‘school age children’.

For our casuals always available when we need them Rebecca Worthington & Jarrad Eldridge.

Thank you to Catherine our manager and all our administration team who support us throughout the year.

In conclusion I would like to thank the Management Committee for their commitment, over this past year.

I look forward to continually building strong relationships with children and families and creating a safe and happy place for children to play and learn.

Debbie Doeland

Director Bligh Park OOSH


Youth Worker’s Report

Throughout the 2015-16 financial year our goal was to continue to engage young people from the local area through our existing in school programs and after school activities held at Tiningi Youth Centre. Our popular BAM program continued to be of great use to both Hawkesbury High, Richmond High and Windsor High Schools. The BAM program helped us to engage our funding target groups, whilst working closely with schools and strengthening our relationships with young people. Participants were referred at the schools discretion and based on those individuals that they felt would gain the most out of the program. Towards the end of 2015, I decided to remodel BAM from an anger management program to focus more on mentoring and pro-social behaviour. This resulted in the acronym’s meaning being changed to “Being A Mentor”. Term 2 saw the new revised BAM program trialled at WSTEC with great success. We anticipate continue support with this program moving forward. In November of 2015, Sarah Turner left BPCSI for full time work. We wish her well with her future endeavours. Luckily for us, Sarah Vassallo would walk into the Neighbourhood Centre looking for Youth related work experience. Cath was very impressed with Sarah and following a work trial we were lucky to welcome Sarah to be a part of our Youth Team at Tiningi.

Sarah has settled in well with our regular young people and they all get along well with her. The part time work and shifts work great with Sarah’s schedule as she undertakes her Certificate IV in Youth Work. Sarah has also been the face of BPCSI at meetings such as the School Partnership, Hawkesbury Youth Interagency and all Blue Light related matter for 2016.

For our 3rd consecutive year we have been able to facilitate RAW at Bligh Park Public School. This year saw a revised RAW program from the previous year being offered. Revised RAW program welcomed Master Wayne Abbott from Fighting Fit Martial Arts Centre in McGraths Hill. The combination of our existing program and Master Wayne’s “Done With Bullying” resulted in the revised program. This new version of RAW was also successful in Hawkesbury City Council’s tender to facilitate an anti-bullying program for some of the local high schools in the next financial year. I thank would like to thank Master Wayne for being a part of and his contributions to RAW and for the support Hawkesbury City Council’s staff have provided us throughout the year.

Game on the court Healthy afternoon snacks


This financial year has had many fun filled times and was great to see so many young people continually engaging with the programs we offer. Special thanks to Catherine Murphy for her ongoing support as our Manager and to Sarah Vassallo for her support as Youth Assistant.

Ricky Atkinson Youth Development Worker BPCSI

Boxing Youth Centre kids


Facilities Report

Bligh Park Community Services Inc. (BPCSI) have the responsibility of hiring the facilities at Bligh Park

Neighbourhood Centre, Bligh Park OOSH, Tiningi Hall and Tiningi Youth Centre. These facilities are

owned by Hawkesbury City Council (HCC). HCC require us to provide cleaning and maintenance work

and to hire the facilities for the benefit of the community. In return we pay no rent for the premises

and are able to use them to: run services and programmes; hire premises to organisations and

individuals to run activities and services; and hire premises for functions. Our Manager, Catherine

Murphy, is encouraging capacity usage of our facilities to provide the widest range of activities,

services and programmes for our community.

Bligh Park Neighbourhood Centre runs Community programmes; hosts activities and is also hired for

events. Regular activities at the Neighbourhood Centre in 2015/16 were Playgroup, Craft, Diabetes

Support, Older Men’s Group, Book Club, Scrapbooking, Guitar lessons, Pilates, Broadband for

Seniors, Celtic Whispers, Yoga, Craft and Marshal Arts. The Neighbourhood Centre hosted meetings

for Hawkesbury Interagency and Hawkesbury Youth Interagency. We ran programmes in partnership

with Peppercorn Services Inc. and hosted events run by HCC. We also hired our Hall for other

organisations’ meetings.

The Bligh Park Out of School Hours and Vacation Care (OOSH) is utilised Mon- Fri for before and after

school; and vacation care for primary school aged children. The OOSH hosted Local OOSH Forums

and some of our Management Committee meetings.

Bligh Park Youth Centre is hired Monday to Thursday from 9.00am – 2.30pm by Eagle Arts and

Vocational College. From 3pm – 6pm our Youth activities and programmes are running. Our Youth

Workers run a movie night once a month on Fridays.

Tiningi Hall is hired to Afford Monday to Friday 8.00am – 4.00pm. On weekday evenings Tiningi is

hired to Physical Culture, Line dancing, Weight Watchers and Taikwondo. On the weekends Tiningi

Hall is hired to residents of the Hawkesbury to hold functions and events.

BPCSI runs our Facilities Hire as a Social Enterprise. This means that after equipment, utilities,

cleaning, salaries, security and insurances are paid any profit is used to provide community services

and programmes.

2015/16 saw an increase of maintenance for all our properties. We have utilised working bees to

tidy areas of Tiningi and have had students from Eagle Arts help with weeding at the Neighbourhood

Centre. I am overseeing the community garden at the Neighbourhood Centre. BPCSI donated an

additional garden bed to Eagle Arts to allow them to grow herbs and bush tucker.

In 2015/16 we had fifteen regular hirers. Three of these were corporate hires and paid full rates,

four were community development activities and services and were utilised free of charge. The

remaining eight hirers are contributing to our community’s health and well-being and are charged at

a community rate.

Lynette Penfold Facilities Manager BPCSI


Our Achievements

Highlighting Achievements – Neighbourhood Centre and Youth Services

Our funding partner the NSW Department of Family & Community Services (FaCS) expect us to

deliver a minimum number of services and programmes, to the communities of Bligh Park and South

Windsor, during the financial year.

FaCS expect us to connect people from the community with information: either face to face, by

telephone, on paper or via email. Providing information also includes ‘assisted referrals’. This is

when we arrange an interview with, or a visit from, another service provider or government

organisation. Connecting people with the right information is fundamental to our service.

Connecting people with information can be as varied as providing new residents with information

regarding local leisure activities to assisting women and their children experiencing domestic

violence to access specialist services.

For the 2015/16 year FaCS expected us to connect people with information on at least 200

occasions. Across our services we connected people with information on 469 occasions.

Community Skills Development is broken down by FaCS into three separate streams. Mentoring, Life Skills and Education/Learning.

For our Mentoring programmes FaCS expected a total attendance of 45. We achieved 770.

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This was an area of concern for BPCSI in 2014/15 where we only achieved 68% of expected target.

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Social Enterprise Outcomes

Income generated from our Facilities Hire was used to employ a Facilities Manager, provide cleaning

and maintenance for all buildings and to provide a free space for Community Groups to gather, host

meetings and to offer services and support. At BPCSI our focus is on providing services to meet

community needs. During 2015/16 we offered free space for twelve weeks to both Wellbe

Psychology and Heart Moves. Wellbe Psychology ran free managing anxiety groups for local

residents. Heart Moves is an exercise programme suitable for all fitness levels. Our facilities were

used free of charge for Red Cross meetings and the Playgroup Christmas Party.

Income generated by OOSH was used to purchase new furnishings and to upgrade technology. I-

pads were provided to staff to allow them to note their observations in real time. Surplus income

was utilised to provide individual advocacy for members of the community. This advocacy ranged

from writing letters, contacting Government Departments, liaison with social housing providers,

Centrelink, Local Members of Parliament, Legal Services and crisis support agencies. Advocacy

included accompanying individuals, who have no family or social support, to various appointments

and interviews.

Surplus income was used to provide free holiday arts and crafts for youth. The summer holiday

programme targeted students transitioning from Year 6 to High School. This income also allowed us

to provide our Active Youth Programme on 92 occasions (twice a week). This programme attracted

an average of 9 participants per session.


Treasurer’s Report for the 2016 Financial Year

The Treasurer’s report is mostly told in the financial accounts which are included in this Annual Report, however here are a few notes to accompany those figures. The grouping of our projects has remained the same in these financial accounts as the previous financial year. This continues to show us more accurate costings within each area in the organisation which helps with future planning and development. Funding for Community and Youth Development increased from last year. The organisation has undertaken a large variety of activities and programs to expand community involvement in the local communities of Bligh Park and South Windsor. Whilst income from hire of the properties has increased from last year we have also increased the number of organisations we offer our halls to at no cost under our Community Development program. Due to the increase of numbers of people in the community using the properties our maintenance and cleaning costs have also significantly increased, leaving properties recording a small loss for the financial year. The OOSH has continued to make a profit this financial year, with the service running close to capacity most days of the week. As the service continues to provide quality care to the children using the service, wages and program costs have some what increased which has reduced the profit slightly from last financial year. The Management project maintains the profit or loss from non funded activities and the organisational expenses for Bligh Park Community Services. The project received management fees from our other projects and all organisational costs were charged to this project. As this project is not funded by a Government Department it is permitted to retain profits for use in future years. Taking everything into account for the 2016 financial year Bligh Park Community Services ended the year with a $2663.25 deficit. This loss has substantially decreased from the previous financial year. This has reduced the balance of retained earnings in the financial accounts for the financial year. Bligh Park Community Services Inc continues to review and monitor it’s financial practices to ensure accountability of all financial arrangements in line with the organisation’s Policies and Procedures and the Associations Incorporation Act NSW.

Lynda Husar Treasurer BPCSI


Financial Reports


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