REPORT 2010 - Telethon Speech and Hearing

Telethon Speech + Hearing 2010 Annual Report
Chief Executive
Officer’s Report
I also wish to thank Shaun Griffin, Paula Killin-Mullins,
Susan Wall and Nicole Walton for their excellent
contributions as external resources and facilitators.
In 2010 the Centre provided programs and services to
around 10,500 children and their families. Certainly if all
the aspirational targets in the Strategic Plan are reached,
these numbers will double over the next three years.
In November 2009 I commenced a
conversation with staff regarding the
Centre’s future and how best to plan for
further growth and continuing excellence
in performance. That conversation
continued on throughout most of 2010
and the outcome is the Centre’s new
3 year Strategic Plan which will take
us through to 2014. All staff teams made
important contributions to the discussions
and much of the content has been
shaped by their ideas and ambitions.
This dramatic growth will put enormous strains on
facilities and resources, hence the time and effort put
into raising capital funds for the next stage of our campus
development in Wembley. The capital campaign topped
out at $7,150,000 due to the generosity of some major
supporters. Mr Jack Bendat and his wife, Eleanor, kindly
donated $1,000,000 toward the new Bendat Parent and
Community Centre. Lotterywest once more made a
sizeable grant available and other major contributions
were received from Wesfarmers, Stan Perron and Frank
Tomasi and his family. I particularly thank Richard Court
for his role in providing vital support through Telethon. The
final contribution to close out the campaign fittingly came
from Terry Crommelin who, with his late wife Audrey, was
instrumental in the foundation of the Centre back in 1967.
The proposed new building will allow us to grow our
audiology and ear health services to double our present
capacity and will give us an outstanding conference and
function facility. The new building will house WA’s first early
literacy library and re-house our administration team. It will
give Better Hearing WA a new shopfront facility and also
allow us to join up our ear health provision with a suite of
other services including GP, ENT, child health nurses and
parent support and advice networks. Much of the Centre’s
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