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GPO Box 383,
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Hindmarsh,
South Australia 5007
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Vice-President’s Report
March 2001
1: Introduction
2: Who’s going to...?
3: Why a high turnover?
4: Independent teams
5: Issues to address
6: The way forward?
7: Conclusion
Reports
President’s report (AGM Nov
8, 2003)
Management Committee report (Jan 2003)
President’s end of year reports (2002)
President’s report (Mar 2002)
President’s report (Jan 2002)
President’s report (Nov 2001)
Nat. Assn. President’s report
(Nov 2001)
President’s report (Sep 2001)
Miscellaneous reports (Jun
2001)
Vice-president’s report (Jun
2001)
Vice-president’s report (Mar
2001)
Vice-President’s Report (continued)
Immediate issues to address
The biggest issue we face – and I’m going to say it right out – is this committee going to burn out? Ultimately that is the management committee’s responsibility BUT I suggest there is also a corporate responsibility to ensure this doesn’t happen. As I said earlier I think we have a great team, and I think it needs to be valued, encouraged and supported.
You may have been surprised by our mailout in March, outlining drastically reduced office hours. We have been finding it difficult even to meet these obligations. Our new management committee is faced with many tasks: orientation, updating job descriptions, writing policies, doing a financial audit and financial planning, upgrading our office, grant writing, improving our core services, making up doctors and new member packs, making a brochure to go into doctor’s surgeries, as well as restarting the volunteer project. There really is a lot.
You may say, “We need to scale back what we are doing with the society” – but it is very hard to see where we can cut back in terms of our responsibilities – we are doing a bare minimum as it is now. Support groups, the support line, Talking Point, SAYME, public meetings and awareness week are all valuable. To cut back services would be disastrous. I believe we actually need to spend even more time improving each of these core services, as well as offer more things for the long term sufferers. The latter is needed to help retain members long-term. I believe we have simple choice right now: curl up and die (scale back), or have a crack at improving what we do (with a view to expanding). And I’m not one to give up easily.
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