May 2015 – Oct 2016
ANNUAL REPORT
WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australasia Pacific Ltd
Members of the first WISA Board 2015: L-R Greg May, Jac Van Velsen, Ros Pretlove, Kerry Ashley, Jeremy
Hurley, Dr Katherine Dix
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Annual Report 2016 WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia
Our Vision
WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia is a national not for profit organization with a vision of school
communities building resilience in all students, especially the most marginalized and those at risk of
marginalization, so they can reach their potential in education and in life.
Our Purpose
To achieve this WISA is working collaboratively with and supporting schools communities in building a
strategic whole of school approach to health and wellbeing that creates a socially just environment
where all students can thrive, particularly those at risk of or who are being marginalised.
WISA key Goals/ Objectives:
1. WISA is an ethical, sustainable and member-based not for profit organisation
1.1. Achievement of charitable status
1.2. Diverse funding sources/streams
1.3. Efficient and effective operations
1.4. Effective in growing and guiding WISA
1.5. Understands and mitigates its risk
2. WISA is a valuable support for school leaders of wellbeing for enabling socially just outcomes
2.1. Identify strategies that increase protective factors and reduce risk factors in marginalised
communities in distress
2.2. Empower school leaders of wellbeing to advocate and achieve systemic school improvement
2.3. Lead research-informed professional development and practice in school wellbeing
2.4. Actively engage school leaders of wellbeing through networks and training
2.5. Lead the establishment of a vibrant national school wellbeing association
2.6 Identify and promote the development of national benchmark standards for school
wellbeing
Our History
WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australasia Pacific Limited is a national not for profit organisation established
in May 2015. WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia works under the auspices of the parent company
WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australasia Pacific Ltd. The organisation achieved full charity status effective
from 1 July 2015 under the subtypes of advancing education, advancing health, advancing social or
public welfare and being a Public Benevolent Institution.
The Board, staff and patron of WISA bring a wealth of expertise and experience to the organisation
having worked at a local, state, national and international level in education and wellbeing. We may be a
new organisation but there are very experienced hands and heads with big hearts in our organisation.
The birth of the organisation occurred at a time where we identified a significant need to support school
communities to address wellbeing. Rates of marginalised students exiting the education system were
growing, safety in schools was requiring significant attention at the local level and those in school
wellbeing and leadership roles were feeling overwhelmed by growing demands and more complex needs
presenting from students, staff and families. All of this was occurring at a time where more and more
health and wellbeing initiatives were being directed at schools and uptake of these initiatives was often
occurring haphazardly with little thought to sustainable effective evidence informed uptake and
implementation that addressed an individual school’s identified needs.
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Annual Report 2016 WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia
The birth of WISA and its subsequent development over the first year and a half has focused upon
working directly with schools, across all states and territories, to build the capacity of Leaders of Schools
Wellbeing to address these needs. This included guiding them to work smarter not harder in a planned
strategic whole of school community approach to addressing wellbeing. Building sustainable evidence
informed best practice resources for school communities to improve wellbeing, underpins all of our
work.
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Annual Report 2016 WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia
CONTENTS
Our vision, purpose and goals
p. 2
Our history
p. 2-3
Section 1 – An overview of WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia
About us
p. 5
Our people
p. 5-6
Our supporters
p. 6-7
Section 2 – Governance
p.7
Structure & management
p.7
Chairperson’s report
p.8-10
CEO’s report
p.10-11
Section 3 – Our Finances
p.11
Treasurer’s report
p.11-12
Auditor’s statement
p.12
Section 4 – Our other important information
How you can help
p.12
Looking to the future
p.12
Contact us
p.13
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Annual Report 2016 WISA Wellbeing in Schools Australia
SECTION 1
AN OVERVIEW OF WISA
ABOUT US
The CEO and staff of WISA have backgrounds spanning the education, youth, community and health sectors together
with education, health and allied professional qualifications and experience. They have worked across the government,
Catholic and independent school sectors in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary settings. This includes staff with expertise in
teaching, health, school leadership, senior management and governance, whole of school approaches to school
community wellbeing – students, staff and families; proactive initiatives in wellbeing – including student
voice/participation, student leadership and empowerment, youth and community development, school resilience and
positive psychology/education, research and evidence-based best practice, mentoring/coaching, peer education school
community partnerships including parent engagement and education, social and emotional learning, suicide prevention,
Primary and Secondary school mental health and wellbeing initiatives; appropriate responses in wellbeing – special
education, effective bullying interventions, conflict resolution, counseling and referral, group work, school nursing,
supporting marginalised and homeless, addressing trauma and critical incidents. All have had experience working both
at local, regional, state and national levels across education and health. Our patron Professor Brian Caldwell is a
previous Dean of Education at the University of Melbourne and is the Deputy Chair of the Australian Curriculum
Assessment and Reporting Authority (ACARA)
What WISA offers
There are four key strategic areas that WISA has created to help school communities to work in a planned
strategic sustainable approach to addressing school wellbeing. These are as follows:
1. Provide support and build the capacity of Leaders of School Wellbeing
- Provision of three levels of training incl. tools, resources and skills practice.
Essential / Basic Training for School Leaders of Wellbeing
Consolidating the School Wellbeing role
Sustaining best practice in the Wellbeing role (under development)
- Annual membership for Leaders of School Wellbeing. Subscription provides access to mentor support,
network meetings, newsletter, blog, resources/tools & discounts
2. Enabling school leadership and governance to effectively resource wellbeing in their school
- A step by step guide (under development)
- 2 day training for school leadership and governance bodies with a focus upon Leadership Wellbeing
and Leading and Resourcing Wellbeing Effectively
- Support networks/mentor support
3. Strategies for working with your most vulnerable students
- Whole school staff strategies 1 day training
- A hardcopy and online guidebook with specific tools and links (under development)
- Intervention and support advisory service (awaiting funding)
- Staff Wellbeing training whole day or modules
4. Population based approaches to school community wellbeing
WISA Conferences alternating years – Vic, SA, ACT, TAS then NSW, QLD, NT, WA
Wellbeing in Schools Awards (under development)
5. Consultancy in relation to a broad array of Wellbeing initiatives in schools
OUR PEOPLE
Patron
Professor Emeritus Brian Caldwell, Educational Transformations, Deputy Chair ACARA and previous Dean of
Education at The University of Melbourne
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Board members/Trustees
Name
Position
Kerry Ashley
Chairperson
Dates acted
(if not for whole year)
2015 & 2016
Dr Katherine Dix
Board Member
2015 & 2016
Chris Champion
Board Member
2016
Ros Pretlove
Board Member
2015 & 2016
Jac Van Velsen
Board Member
2015 & 2016
Employees/Contractors
Dates acted
(if not for whole year)
2015 & 2016
Name
Position
Jac Van Velsen
Voluntary CEO
Ros Pretlove
Contractor
National
Professional
Learning
2015 & 2016
Linsey Hart
Contractor SA &
NT WISA State
Manager
2015 & 2016
Maria Hart
Contractor WA
WISA State
Manager
2015 & 2016
Michael Turner
Contractor
Marginalised
Training Provider
2015 & 2016
Paul Cahalan
Contractor
Leadership
Wellbeing
Since May 2016
Carolyn May
Contractor
Leadership
Wellbeing & Staff
Wellbeing
Since May 2016
Volunteers
Dates acted
(if not for whole year)
Since inception
Name
Position
Troy Slade, Slade Design
Graphic and Web
Designer
Jonathon Ashley
Data and strategy
2016
Rose Lavery
Charity
application
support
2015 & 2016
Anton Morrison
Nurse health
checks at
conferences
2015 & 2016
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Acknowledging our Supporters
Our sincere thanks and heartfelt appreciation go to our first Chairperson Jeremy Hurley and Treasurer Greg May
who both made very significant contributions to the Board and the establishment of WISA and core governance
documents. Special thanks go to Katherine for numerous late nights working on our research and data reports.
In particular WISA would also like to acknowledge and thank Professor Helen Cahill, Alan Hutchinson, Bob
Bellhouse and Professor Brian Caldwell for their guidance, sage counsel and mentoring in the establishment of
WISA. Professors Donna Cross and Ken Rigby thank you for your recent support for funding proposals. Thank
you to Anne McCormick and Jonathon Ashley for your guidance regarding strategy.
Many people have kindly supported us as we grew from an idea into an established practising organisation. In
particular thanks go to our fabulous partners Anton, Kym, Mark, Bret, Jonathon, Nick, Julie, Tish and Carolyn.
To those who have kindly volunteered their time and resources, including those listed above, we would not be
where we are today without you. Thank you sincerely for your generosity and belief in making a difference.
Thanks to Christine Hart for support in South Australia. Thanks to Bret Gaborit for website establishment advice.
Thanks also to Paul Somerville for support and advice in establishing WISA and business administration.
Felicity Melican from Sinclair Wilson we are grateful for the pro bono audit.
SECTION 2
GOVERNANCE
STRUCTURE & MANAGEMENT
WISA is a registered Company Limited by Guarantee with ASIC and the ATO and also registered with the Australian
Charities and Not-for-profits Commission (ACNC), holding Deductible Gift Recipient status.
The WISA Board of Directors provide strategic governance and oversight of the WISA strategic plan and operations,
providing leadership and structure for growth.
Whilst WISA is financially independent, reliant upon percentage income generated by contractors through training and
conferences endorsed and advertised by WISA, we are not yet in the position to pay for our CEO or be able to take on
paid staff. However due to the passion and dedication to see WISA grow and gain regular sources of income, Jac Van
Velsen offered to the Board of Directors to become the (Voluntary) CEO for a period until she and her team of
contractors can generate ongoing income streams.
Our CEO and Board are making every effort to meet and advise both Commonwealth and State Ministers and staff, of
the work that WISA is undertaking to attract greater resourcing and support for wellbeing in schools, with the aim of
collaborating with government partners to deliver new and exciting training and support to schools.
Being a new organisation ‘on the block’ has presented challenges in raising awareness of what WISA does, the needs we
have identified and how we can support Governments to improve and increase teacher and student engagement in
education, along with their wellbeing, which is essential for improved academic and educational outcomes for students.
The WISA Board is supported and backed by a very impressive group of academics that inform WISA’s work and
involvement is schools. Providing evidence based tools and training is essential to our work and we thank them for their
generous support, professional and academic rigour to support the work we undertake.
Our model of business until we have secured long-term programmatic funding and philanthropic funding is to provide
training and support through a group of WISA approved trainers who together set up a schedule of training and
conferences across Australia. The contractors undertake all arrangements and risk, with a percentage of earnings paid
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to WISA. WISA sustains a website and partners with contactors in the development and ownership of training
materials.
WISA has also developed a Leader of School Wellbeing Network organisation where members can receive mentoring,
support, collegiality, shared resources and discount to further training offerings.
Whilst the above business model maintains the security of WISA operationally the model is very tight and is only able to
be offered on a ‘user pays’ approach. What we have learnt is that if the training is sponsored by school networks or
State Departments we have a greater turn up to training and can be more targeted to schools in need. As our purpose
is to provide the necessary training and support to marginalised schools, our lack of external funding support limits
schools’ participation as most have already committed their budgets to a range of activities to support their school, so
they invariably are not able to send their teachers to ‘user pays’ training.
Ideally we would like to be delivering training and support to any school that is marginalised (as they are often the most
in need of assistance) with the backing of the Commonwealth Government and State support.
CHAIRPERSON’S REPORT
CHAIRPERSONS REPORT – KERRY ASHLEY
Welcome to our inaugural WISA Annual General Meeting, May 2015 – June 2016.
Since the inception of WISA in May 2015, it’s with great pleasure that I can report on a successful year of activities of the
Board and operations. It has been a significant year for the WISA Board and CEO, taking a vision and idea and making it a
reality. It has been both enormously exciting and challenging as we have strove to build the WISA brand, expanding on
our training and support throughout all states and territories of Australia. Our aim is to support school communities to
build better wellbeing responses in their schools with the training and resources to do so. We have established a
network of very experienced (top of their field) contracted staff to deliver WISA developed training courses through
conferences and personal learning events.
Building on the established evidence based training provided to School Leadership teams and to key staff in schools
responsible for wellbeing, we have also developed a Leader of School Wellbeing Membership Network.
In our first year we have undertaken all the business requirements to ensure that WISA was fully operational. This has
included exhaustive work to successfully register WISA as a Public Benevolent Institution (PBI) charity. We gained three
levels of charity status as our main purpose is to address student resilience and especially target the most marginalised
and those at risk of marginalisation. Full charity status became effective from 1 July 2015 under the subtypes of
advancing education, advancing health, advancing social or public welfare and being a Public Benevolent Institution. In
addition we were successfully endorsed with tax Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) and as a Tax Concession Charity (TCC).
To receive these key endorsements we have had to undertake full business and financial planning, along with
developing a suite of business policy and governance.
This could not have been achieved without the sustained and committed support of our very talented Board. Our
members are placed around Australia so the extra challenges of meeting via Skype and teleconferencing has created
extra challenges. However we were able to all meet face to face for a planning session in late 2015.
WISA has held 60 education and training events including 4 state conferences in its first 18 months with one further
additional state conference occurring in the next few weeks. Over 1600 people across every state and territory have
been involved in these WISA events. We would like to acknowledge the work of Dr Katherine Dix, Ros Pretlove and Jac
Van Velsen in the writing of two reports which summarise data collected from the events. This data has provided very
valuable information for our organisation around trends and needs in schools and the strengths and challenges in
relation to Wellbeing in schools across Australia.
The work involved has required dedication to progress so rapidly, and positions WISA well for its second year of
operation. I would like to therefore acknowledge the huge contribution of our Board members past and current.
o Jeremy Hurley – Chairperson (resigned early 2016)
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Kerry Ashley – Secretary, then Chairperson on resignation of JH)
Greg May – Treasurer (recent sudden resignation due to ill health)
Ros Pretlove – Director, then Secretary
Katherine Dix – Director (Lead for WISA Statistics)
Chris Champion – Director
Jac Van Velsen – Voluntary CEO, Director
Patron: Brian Caldwell
I would like to particularly acknowledge and congratulate Jac Van Velsen (Founder) who has worked tirelessly to build
the organisation and brought passion, drive and dedication to see WISA established. Without her vision, experience and
professional standing, WISA would not have progressed so strongly this year.
Equally I would like to thank Ros Pretlove for her work in building WISA and the development of high quality
professional learning resources (together with Jac), and organising WISA events and establishing the new Leader of
School Wellbeing Network. Also to all of our contract staff who drive our WISA brand, Training Modules and
Conferences: Linsey Hart, Maria Hart, Mick Turner, Paul Cahalan, Carolyn May, Ros Pretlove and Jac Van Velsen. Each is
an experienced practitioner and consummate professional, profiling WISA activities and responsible for the delivery of
quality training throughout Australia. This past year has required a leap of faith for both our CEO and contract staff in
their careers whilst they assist in WISA’s growth without an external source of funding. The contract staff work together
under WISA’s mantle to develop key training and conferences, as well as individually run the training sessions under
their own contract arrangement until we secure funding for all of this work.
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As a Board we are planning for the coming year to realise funding streams that can secure our contract staff and
better support them as we simultaneously grow WISA, and capacity to further WISA in its strategic vision
Setting policy and procedure in relation to Contracted staff
Reviewing and further developing our Policy environment
Establishing Board portfolio and delivery plans
Building our strategic relationships with both Federal and State Governments – sourcing renewable funding to
support our work in marginalised communities
Continue focus on supporting our CEO to build the capacity of the organisation
In all the key strategic planning goals we have either achieved or are well progressed within our current Business Plan
2016 – 2018; a very impressive outcome.
Business activity streams 2016-2018: Report on activities
Our four streams:
a.
b.
c.
d.
Grow the organisation (GO)
Professional learning resources (PL)
Engagement and support of school leaders of wellbeing (NT)
Research (RE)
a. GO
1.1
Achievement of charitable status
1.2
Diverse funding sources/streams
1.3
Efficient and effective operations
1.4
Effective in growing and guiding WISA
Understands and mitigates its risks
1.5
b.
PL
c. NT f. RE
Progress
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x
x
x
x
x
Started
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2.1
Identify strategies that increase protective
factors and reduce risk factors in marginalised
communities in distress
x
2.2
Empower school leaders of wellbeing to
x
x
x
Started
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Started
advocate and achieve systemic school
improvement
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x
Started
2.3
Lead research-informed professional
development and practice in school wellbeing
x
x
2.4
Actively engage school leaders of wellbeing
through networks and training
x
x

2.5
Lead the establishment of a vibrant national
school wellbeing association
x
x

2.6
Identify and promote the development of
national benchmark standards for school
wellbeing
x
x
Started
We look forward to an excellent and productive year ahead for WISA and for prosperity and growth.
Kerry Ashley (Master of Clinical Family Therapy)
Chairperson,
October 2016
CEO Report on WISA ACTIVITIES
The first eighteen months have been largely focused upon growing the organisation, building the resources and rolling
out training and professional learning events. We have rapidly grown and operationalised the organisation we
envisaged and developed an extensive body of data to evidence the needs across Australia. We are consistently hearing
that the needs are growing and the demands are more complex.
None of this work and these achievements would have been possible without the support of those mentioned earlier in
this report. WISA has grown as a result of the enormous goodwill and support of many people both within and outside
the organisation. It is an exciting time as we now develop funding streams to grow and expand this work.
WISA seeks to address the gap between Australia’s key policy documentation around wellbeing in education and
what actually happens in practice at the coalface of education to promote wellbeing in schools. WISA has
already made its mark on school wellbeing across Australia in significant ways that will inevitably impact
positively upon social and public welfare by enhancing health and education outcomes for school communities.
Since June 2015 WISA has held 60 training events including four state conferences to over 1600 participants
from every state and territory. The types of activity are detailed here:
1. Targeted training for Leaders of School Wellbeing promotes strategic, informed approaches to school
wellbeing, providing tools, resources, support and direction to participants through Basic Essential Training and
Consolidating Practices Training for: Principals and their Deputies, Wellbeing/Pastoral Care/Special
Education/Year Level Coordinators and House Leaders, Psychologists, Social Workers, Counselors, Chaplains,
School Support Service Officers and others who lead and/or support leadership of wellbeing in school settings.
This work is targeted at better supporting students, their families and school staff with the resources to improve
their wellbeing and engagement in school communities.
2. Targeted Wellbeing Training for Principals and Governance emphasizes the value of embedding wellbeing
through evidence informed highly effective structures, appropriate resourcing and strategic, whole of school
community approaches and identifies ways to reduce burnout amongst our school leaders and improve their self
care, a critical determinant in being able to better support others in the school community.
3. Training in Staff Wellbeing recognizes the significant role that all staff members play in the promotion of
sound wellbeing practices, the critical importance of strong staff to student relationships and showcases positive
self care strategies.
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4. Whole School Wellbeing Training for Staff in Strategies to Support Your Most Marginalized Students
addresses both practical ways to meet the needs of schools’ most vulnerable, marginalized students but also
structural changes to better support these students and their families.
5. Tailored training sessions address specific and contextual wellbeing needs of schools and organizations. WISA
can support these schools to tailor wellbeing to best address their specific needs.
6. State/Territory WISA Wellbeing Leadership Conferences showcase important wellbeing research, practices
and opportunities for schools to connect. These events provide inspiration through the sharing of sound,
evidence-based wellbeing practices and resources.
7. Collection of data specifically relating to wellbeing practice in schools around Australia from participants in
WISA training and Conferences identifies clearly the need for targeted support to school communities to
improve health, educational and ultimately social and public wellbeing. E.g. WISA data shows that:
 Over 45% of Wellbeing Coordinators believe the demands of the role are not manageable all the time.
 More than 60% have had no formal training for the role and many feel isolated in their work
 More than 95% of participants in WISA Leaders of School Wellbeing Training were unaware of the four
most effective bullying interventions
8. Establishment of WISA’s Leaders of School Wellbeing Network provides tools, resources, conversation
platforms, networking opportunities, mentoring/coaching and collaborative sharing of information and ideas.
Most importantly it is providing ongoing support to a large number who currently find the demands difficult to
manage.
Jac Van Velsen
CEO
SECTION 3
OUR FINANCES
TREASURER’S REPORT - Kerry Ashley (on behalf of the outgoing Treasurer)
Growing and developing WISA’s financial sustainability has certainly been a challenge, as most start-up
businesses face. For any person or member of a Board striving to take an idea and implement that idea
with full fiscal austerity brings difficult decision making along with considered creativity to structure a
business so that it can survive and remain operational and able to meet its financial commitments.
Key to our decision making has been structuring the WISA Company to manage first and foremost any
risk but primarily our financial risk, ensuring we remain solvent and set up for growth.
Without the immediacy of a secure funding stream the Board therefore have created an interim financial
strategy whilst we develop our funding streams to eventually be operating with a CEO and staff.
For the interim, WISA has set up a preferred Contractor group who are all highly accredited
professionals, experts in their fields and have made the decision to support the organisation by
delivering training, conferences and school support on a fee for service basis. They take the full risks in
organising, promoting and delivering the events including their travel and personal expenses with a
percentage fee payment returning to WISA. In turn, WISA maintains a website and facility to advertise
all events and support offerings, along with WISA professional membership.
This approach brings in a modest income stream to WISA. It has enabled WISA to meet all its basic
cost structures for example, insurances, website development and promotional costs, however in the
long term this approach brings limited capacity for WISA to grow.
The Board would like to see that all schools across Australia have access to the very fundamentals of
Wellbeing training so they can self-determine their approaches in their school environments, regardless
of where they are and what population the school is. However we know this is not enough and both
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schools leaders and teachers require the necessary in-house support to implement their preventative
approaches to address and plan against critical and complex wellbeing issues.
WISA is committed to providing not just the tools, but the support for schools to strengthen their
wellbeing plans to meet their community needs. In time we also hope to have teams of professionals
available to assist Principals, leading teachers and Wellbeing staff with the support they need, providing
clinical and remediation support to address specific school needs. For example: if a particular school
has had an instance of bullying, our staff could assist the school to address the issues and strengthen
structural issues to address the immediacy and ensure prevention fixes are put in place. Often we have
learnt schools feel ill equipped to manage these very difficult and serious issues.
The efforts of the Board and CEO this year to position WISA has been critical in establishing WISA as
an organisation with professional depth, capacity and the necessary requirements of registration with
the ACNC as a Charity and receiving Deductible Gift Recipient Status.
The Board will continue to pursue with our CEO government support. We know what we offer is a new
approach, going straight to the heart of school needs working with complex societal issues, whilst they
deliver their educational mandate.
The audited report is very straight forward and there are no specific issues to comment on other than
we met our financial commitments and we have continued to remain fiscally viable.
The challenge for WISA in the coming year however and must be our primary focus, is to secure
alternate streams of income that can support our vision and purpose ensuring all schools, especially the
most marginalised, have access to prevention strategies and the support they need to adequately
address their school, teacher student and communities wellbeing needs.
Lastly I would like to thank Greg May, the outgoing Treasurer who through his expertise has enabled us
to remain fiscally viable and taken the thankless task, but critical Board requirement, of highlighting and
planning to ensure we cover our corporate risks. Unfortunately Greg had to resign suddenly recently
due to an unexpected health issue. We are greatly appreciative to Greg for his past years’ service,
particularly for his enthusiasm, professional advice, direction and support to the WISA vision and
purpose.
Subsequently we will be appointing a new Treasurer from the newly elected Board for the 2015-2016
period.
AUDITOR’S REPORT
Please see attached Audited report.
SECTION 4
OUR OTHER IMPORTANT INFORMATION
HOW YOU CAN HELP
WISA is a not for profit Company Limited by Guarantee and a registered Charity with the ACNC - PBI,
holding DGR status. Our work is aimed to alleviate poverty and distress by supporting schools to build
resilience in all students, especially the most marginalised and those at risk of marginalisation. We are
supporting school communities to be better able to address their Wellbeing needs through training,
conferences and critical support directly into schools, promoting the best of outcomes for students in
their future life trajectory.
If you are able to assist us in any way to drive our vision and purpose we welcome you to contact us for
further discussion. Perhaps you have heard of some funding that could assist or you are able to offer or
are aware of donations or pro-bono work or goods and services to support our work. We welcome all
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contributions to support us to grow this worthy not for profit organisation and promote optimal outcomes
for our Australian students and school communities.
Volunteer your time
WISA has a number of Board driven committees and we are seeking general support to maintain
these, as well as expert opinion and advice.
If you feel you could assist us or know of someone who can on any of the following topics, please
contact us for further discussion.
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Financial planning and strategic positioning for growth
Corporate Governance (Structure, Policy, Risk Management, Strategic Planning,)
Marketing and Promotions (Website, Social Media)
Human Resource Planning (Contract Management, preparing for Employed staff)
Research and Data Collection and Analysis
As a growing Not-for-Profit company we need all the help we can to get started, so volunteering your
support and assistance will assist our capacity and deep and direct our work to better able to support
school communities.
Make a donation and how you can support us.
WISA is a not for profit Company Limited by Guarantee and a registered Charity with the ACNC – with
PBI. WISA holds Deductible Gift Recipient (DGR) status and therefore able to provide tax receipt for
any donations made to WISA.
All donations will be mentioned in future Annual General Reports and of course our Website as a
support, unless requested that we not do so.
As a growing company we have many ways in which individuals, company’s or groups can support us,
whether through promoting our work and services or providing your time, expertise, goods, services or
financial donation.
Without a community of interest and support we will not grow WISA to its full potential to meet school
and community needs.
We welcome you to contact our CEO to discuss how you can assist. Details are below.
Leave a bequest
Similar to making donations think about leaving a donation from your will or property that WISA can use
to further this important work.
Support an event or fundraising activity
Our most marginalised school communities often do not have the resources to attend WISA
conferences and training events from which they can benefit greatly. Your support can enable them by
providing free registrations.
Become a corporate partner
Our conferences and training events can benefit from your support.
Other ways you can help our cause
Talk to us.
LOOKING TO THE FUTURE
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Our next big area that we shall start to focus upon is enabling student voice, participation and empowerment in
school communities. More news to follow over the coming year.
CONTACT US
PO Box 1090 Castlemaine 3450
Ph 0423 823 145]
E. [email protected]
www.wisawellbeing.com.au
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