Lead auditor’s independence declaration

6. Directors’ meetings

The number of meetings of the Board of Directors (including meetings of Committees of Directors) and the number of meetings attended by each of the Directors during the financial year is as follows:

Director Board

Audit & Risk Committee People & Culture Committee Governance & Nomination Committee

Care & Clinical Governance Committee Property Committee Acquisitions Committee

Robert Dunn 6 4 1 4 4 3 5

Owen Chew Lee 5 4 3 Craig Collins 5 Corinne Glasby 6 4 3 Peter Murphy 6 4

Anna Phan 6 3 4 4 5

3 4

3

4

Cameron Webb 6 Clifford Hughes 5

Doug Sotheren (Appointed 11 November 2021)

4

Ian Wilson (Retired 11 November 2021)

2 4

2 3 4 5

4

1

Total number of meetings 6 4 3 4 4 4 5

7. BaptistCare Members

Membership of BaptistCare is available to all Members of Churches affiliated with The Association of Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT in the following ways: • Each Church may nominate one person as their representative for Membership • Individual Church Members may apply for Membership • A member of the Assembly Council of The Association of Baptist Churches of NSW & ACT may apply for Membership (which would apply during the term of their respective office) In addition, the Directors may appoint Honorary Life Members in recognition of their outstanding service to the BaptistCare. At any time there can be a maximum of 30 Honorary Life Members (unless otherwise approved by BaptistCare in general meeting). At the date of this report there are 105 Members (2021: 111 Members) including 17 Honorary Life Members (2021: 17 Honorary Life Members). Each Member has a liability in the case of a winding-up. The extent of the liability of any Member under the guarantee is $0.10

The total amount that Members of the BaptistCare are liable to contribute as at 30 June 2022 is $10.50 (2021: $10,500.60). The change in the liability of members came into effect at the 2021 Annual General Meeting as part of amendments to the Constitution approved by the members. Amendments to the Corporations Act 2001 prohibits a change to the original amount of the member’s guarantee from when a Company was first registered, which at the time of incorporation was $0.10. 8. Events subsequent to reporting date

There have been no events subsequent to the balance date which would have a material effect on BaptistCare’s financial statements at 30 June 2022. 9. Government funding

BaptistCare would like to acknowledge the following Government Departments which fund programmes that BaptistCare operates or conducts: • Australian Government: Department of Social Services and Department of Health and Aged Care. • New South Wales Government: Department of Communities and Justice, NSW Health (through various Local Health Districts), Transport for NSW, Corrective Services NSW, NSW Fair Trading and NSW Department of Planning, Industry and Environment • Australian Capital Territory Government: ACT Government Health and ACT Government Community Services. 10. Lead auditor’s independence declaration

The lead auditor’s independence declaration is set out on page 13 and forms part of the

Directors’ report for the financial year ended 30 June 2022. 11. Rounding off

BaptistCare is of a kind referred to in ASIC Corporations (Rounding in Financial/ Directors’ Reports) Instrument 2016/191 and in accordance with that instrument, amounts in the financial report and Directors’ report have been rounded off to the nearest thousand dollars, unless otherwise stated. This Directors’ report is made out in accordance with a resolution of the Directors:

__________________________________ Robert Dunn Chair Dated at Sydney, this 26th day of September 2022