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BOARD UPDATE Thank you to our outgoing Chair, Allen Lind who has served on our board since 2012 and was our Chair from 2017–2019. We are delighted that he remains on the Board as a Director. We welcome Colin McJannett as our new Chair. Colin has served on the board since 2017 and has held governance responsibilities as Chair for both Primary Health and Social Service organisations. Colin has extensive consulting and senior management experience which has encompassed the social services, primary health and the finance industries. His governance responsibilities have included strategic planning, monitoring social service and delivery of primary health contracts for Government and District Health boards amongst others. Thank you for your service on the board goes to Erica Kneipp who resigned in
AWARDS Board Members Colin McJannett, Dawn Stanfield and Allen Lind with Jennene Buckley and podcast hosts Tristram Peters and Pete Timbs at the launch of our new podcast, Grow Bold with Disability
2019. We are pleased to welcome two new board members Andrew Young and Michael Tennant!
Our Google Home and MyFeros portal is the winner of the IT News Benchmark Best Health Project. Our Grow Bold campaign is also a winner, taking out the Community Engagement top honours in the Future of Ageing Awards.
SUZANNE’S GRACE KELLY MOMENT Sometimes, you just want your movie star moment. That’s exactly what happened for our client Suzanne, thanks to her Wellbeing Manager, Dan. Suzanne was booked in for three weeks respite at Feros Village Byron Bay, and joked with Dan about ‘arriving in style’ in his flash convertible – which also happened to be Suzanne’s favourite colour, red! Dan initially had concerns about how he would be able to get her in and out of the car. But Suzanne was unperturbed. “Drag me out by my feet if you have to – I don’t care as long as I get to go for a ride in the car!” So, after assessing the risks and enlisting her sons to help her in and out of the car, Suzanne got her Grace Kelly moment.
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For Suzanne, this was her first time staying at a residential village and she was a little nervous about it.
The drive down was a wonderful distraction for her and got her stay off to a great start!
