Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Annual Report 2018-19

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Volunteers at Melbourne Gardens VOLUNTEERS AND ASSOCIATES Volunteers and Honorary Associates worked across Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria in a variety of roles at Cranbourne Gardens, Melbourne Gardens, in the Herbarium and with the Engagement and Impact Division. Working in partnership with staff, they welcomed visitors, guided tourists, supported science, planted and propagated, and provided important knowledge and skills. In 2018-19, volunteers and associates contributed almost 14,000 hours to Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria, adding significant value to the organisation. Science Division Volunteers During 2018–19 year, volunteers contributed more than 8,500 hours of work to the Science Division, worked with staff on curation and documentation of the State Botanical Collection, assisted in the Royal Botanic Gardens Library, and with conservation research projects. ‘Fungimap’ had eight volunteers attending the gardens to work in the reporting period of the project, collectively contributing more than 630 hours to enter fungi record data and respond to fungal identification requests, manage the ‘Fungimap’ bookshop, assist with archiving projects and attend to other administrative and operational tasks. Other volunteers have contributed to work in the field as part of the ‘Putting Victoria’s Fungal Diversity on the Map’ project, which has expanded the work from previous years to now include 15 rare and threatened fungi species. Other volunteers assist remotely with updates to the ‘Fungimap’ website, e-Newsletters and social media platforms. Volunteers with the orchid conservation program assisted in over 1,240 hours of laboratory micropropagation and nursery repotting/maintenance across both Cranbourne and Melbourne. A total of 10 volunteers assisted in 600 hours of field work involving orchid site maintenance, fencing/caging threatened populations, reintroduction programs and pollinator surveys. The library’s 10 volunteers contributed 1,750 hours of work towards two of the library’s goals to preserve and increase access to the collection. Work included cataloguing both new and old material (including artworks), barcoding journals, digitising artworks and paper records, databasing and re-housing the nursery catalogue collection, transcribing Mueller’s 19th century ledger, and creating descriptive lists of manuscript collections, including the remains of Guilfoyle’s Museum of Economic Botany. Volunteers also continued to select images from the library’s image database for publication in the eFloras (VicFlora, HortFlora). 74
Herbarium Volunteers Marina Albert Chirta Eve Almond Ramanadhan Neil Anderton Veronica Reeve Ruth Ault Sara Romberg Caine Barlow Jennifer Ross Lydia Beshara Judy Ryan Jenepher Beudel David Sambrooks Margaret Brookes Roslyn Savio Robyn Russell Stanley Brownscombe Catherine Taylor Sally Bufe Joan Thomas Wendy Cook Robert Thomas Ema Corro Catherine Trinca Sandra Cumbari Peter Wallace Simone Currie Ann Walsham Jane Dennithorne Mary Ward Krystyna Robert Webb Derwinska Sandra Whitty Nury Echeverria Mike Wicks Silva Jenny Williams Lynda Entwisle Charles Young. Alwynne Fairweather Francis Faul Katherine Flynn Jessie Ford Neil Freestone Hazel Gabriel Robert Hare Mary Hills Eva Hookey Elizabeth Howcroft Vicki Jaeger Sumali Jayaweera Meran Jennings Janne Lade Bryan Lawrence Anne Lawson Geoffrey Lay Jannie Lay Angela Little Anna Long Vicky McGimpsey Cherie McKeich Anne McLachlan Sapphire McMullan-Fisher Angela Mitchell Josephine Mitchell Graham Patterson Lynsey Poore Melbourne Gardens Volunteers At Melbourne Gardens, 100 volunteers contributed 8,110 hours of work during 2018–19. In addition, 10 horticulture volunteers contributed 212 hours to the work undertaken by the Melbourne Gardens horticulture team, including 672 hours worked by interns. The Ian Potter Foundation Children’s Garden Volunteers Anne Ada Moira Bainbridge Mary Becker Angela Bentley Lesley Blow Lorraine Brock Jan Brown Stephanie Campbell-Gabb Billie DeBondi Jenni Eaton Susan Hope Lea Levy Anna Malone Susan Moloney Billy Moore Regina Pike Anna Priester Jakub Mardon Merienne Shortridge Cathy Simpson Marg Smith Sue Smith Julie Troschke Kate Welsh. Garden Ambassadors Melbourne Dianne Allen Marie Banic Carmel Bateman Judy Cain Susanne Clarke Frances Coffey Dianne Costelloe Rosemary Cotter Helen Creedon Rose Davey Berys Dixon Sue Dorning Veronica Harrison Angela Herd Wendy Hopkins Anne Krelle Gail Latchford Lea Levy Alasdair Macdonald Claire McGoldrick Marian McLean Jadzia Rae Sandia Rose Anne Scott Christine Stott Libby Tronson. Voluntary Guides Jill Bartlett Bud Batrouney Judith Bennett Doris Berry Dimi Bouzala Susan Broadbent Pamela Carder Liz Cooper Rosemary Cotter Anna Denton David Forbes Kay Hall Jenny Happell Ross Harris Virginia Heywood David Johnston Marg Kerr Scott Kerr Terry Lennon Julianne Lewis Christine Mitchell Bill Mooney Georgina Mountford Gary Nelson Jenny Nicholas Rosemary O’Brien Donna Osbourne Anne Peterson Kathryn Pile David Plant Ian Polmear Margaret Polmear Lynsey Poore Faye Retchford Maggie Richards Jayne Salmon Louise Sexton Julian Simpson Carole Spillane Michael Stevens Nada Stojkovic Catherine Trinca Robin Viney Chris Wallis Bryon Wicks Mali Wilson. Engagement and Impact Volunteer Fay Chomley Horticulture Volunteers Sam Amo Meg Bentley Rosemary Cotter Helping Hands Sue Hoare Kay Howden Janet Moritz Marguerite O’Hara Gill Taylor. Horticulture Internship Program Maria Brandani Jordan Lammers Georgia Moyes Alex Sinclair Emma Warren. ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS BOARD VICTORIA — ANNUAL REPORT 2018–19 75
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Royal Botanic Gardens Victoria Annu
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TABLE OF CONTENTS Chairman’s Fore
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A family enjoy a peaceful moment at
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Visitors admiring a tree on Oak Law
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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS BOARD VICTORI
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ROYAL BOTANIC GARDENS BOARD VICTORI
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Our Organisation Royal Botanic Gard
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“Our Gardens are the living heart
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“We always seem to find our way b
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Specimens from the State Botanical
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Ms Susanne Williamson GAICD Appoint
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EXECUTIVE TEAM AS AT 30 JUNE 2019 D
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Page 29 and 30: Our Performance We embrace our resp
Page 31 and 32: Table 6: Financial results for 2018
Page 33 and 34: Our Achievements The Royal Botanic
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Page 37 and 38: Genomics for Australian Plants (GAP
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Page 47 and 48: Getting kids involved in Indigenous
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Page 63 and 64: Progress was made toward achieving
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Page 121 and 122: Appendix One: Disclosure Index The
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LEGISLATION The Royal Botanic Garde
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