Directors' Report

The Directors present their financial report for St John Ambulance Australia (NSW) (“the Company” or “St John Ambulance”) and its controlled entity, which are together referred to in this report as (“the Group”), for the year ended 31 December 2022.

The Company is an entity limited by guarantee with no share capital under the provisions of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission Act 2012.

Our Purpose

Every day, Australians are at risk of vulnerability, illness, injury, and potentially life-threatening situations at home, in the workplace and the community.

We believe that every Australian should have access to responsive healthcare and wellbeing support when and where they need it.

Serving Our Communities

St John Ambulance has come a long way during our 135-year history and we are constantly evolving to ensure we continue to best serve the NSW community.

With COVID-19 still prevalent and natural disasters continuing to affect the NSW community, the need for our services has remained strong, both in our traditional emergency response role, but also in supporting the health system and workplaces. As events, small and large, made a comeback, we saw a high demand for much-needed first aid support in the community.

Community health and safety remained constantly challenging. Some communities struggled with both COVID-19 and flooding. Our focus was on how we could evolve and change to ensure we continue to meet the needs of the community and help NSW stay safe.

Here are just some of the ways we have helped the community in 2022:

Flood Response

We played a significant role in assisting our regional communities during the devastating floods in 2022. Providing medical and emergency assistance, we worked alongside NSW Health, the SES and NSW Police to assist members of the community and emergency service workers.

Event Health Services

Our teams attended over 2,200 events in 2022. From school sporting matches to major festivals and events such as the City to Surf, Bathurst 1000, the Royal Easter Show, Truegrit and New Year's Eve celebrations, we were there on the sidelines to assist the community with first aid, medical and mental health services.

Health Services

Throughout 2022 our teams have worked closely with Local Health Districts all over the state including in regional and remote NSW to assist with staffing shortages caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.

With COVID-19 still affecting our community, St John Ambulance was a provider of choice and one of the first to market providing both Rapid Antigen Self Testing to the public to help them continue their daily lives in a safe way; and supervised Rapid Antigen Screening to the RFS, SES and NSW Ambulance to provide employee and volunteer confidence and mitigate the risks of workplace shutdowns at these essential services.

St John Ambulance supported NSW HealthShare with the transport of low acuity ambulant patients during the periods of peak demand through the COVID-19 pandemic. Through our contribution, NSW HealthShare has been able to reduce wait times and redirect its resources to those who need greater support, are less ambulant or in need of more comprehensive medical care while being transported.