Redland Museum Annual Reports June 30 This document is made up of Redland Museum’s President and Treasurer Reports including Audited Financial Statements for 2016. Other reports enclosed are written by various subcommittees and groups within the museum. Includes: President Report Page 1 Treasurer Report Page 8 Exhibition Report Page 9 SMBIM Report Page 10 Textile Report Page 11 Marketing Report Page 12 Display Report Page 13 Annexure A Page 15 Financial Audit Page 16
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Redland Museum Annual Reports
June 30
This document is made up of Redland Museum’s President and Treasurer Reports including Audited Financial Statements for 2016. Other reports enclosed are written by various subcommittees and groups within the museum.
ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING For the financial year ended 30 June 2016
President’s Report By Doug Alexander
This is the Redland Museum’s President’s Report for activities that occurred during the financial year
from 1 July 2015 to 30 June 2106.
Our vision states that our museum aims “to be a dynamic inclusive social history museum
recognised as the living heart of our community”. (*Business Plan 2016-2021)
It is my pleasure to report that we are making progress towards that vision. The 2016 financial year
was again a very successful period for the museum.
Our measures of progress are grouped in four activity areas:
1. How we are engaging with people and our community
2. How we are developing our significant collection
3. How we are managing our museum
4. How we are developing our facilities
So let’s look at the FY2016 under these headings:
1. Engaging with our people and our community
Explanation: This is where the museum endeavours to be involved with Council, businesses,
educational institutions, other community groups including not-for-profits and individuals with
the aim of working together to achieve charitable and mutually beneficial objectives.
These are some of our stakeholders and make up a major part of our museum community.
The gauge of success for this activity is determined by both the quantitative measures of
increasing visitor and member numbers and the qualitative measure of the satisfaction rating
our stakeholders feel about the museum. The latter is determined by surveys and comments
on our social media pages and our visitor book.
What did we achieve in 2016? (* All figures sourced from museum data)
Total physical visitor numbers to the museum have increased by 10.14% compared to the
previous year. (14,923 visitors compared to 13,549 in FY2015,). Internet visitors to our website
have decreased by 9.04% to 19,132 visitors. Our Facebook page has a total average reach to
2,071 account holders. Facebook have given us a 5 star rating (out of 5). Thanks to Col Lamb for
looking after our website and our Facebook guru, Sharon Froome.
Children visitors represented 14.8% (2,206) of all physical visitors. This included 22 schools
visiting, usually bringing more than one class. Seniors groups represented 6.6% (983) of
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physical visitors being made up of 40 separate groups. 36.4% of physical visitors came from
events (5,427). *(Event visitors are grouped together and these numbers are conservative approximations.)
Many groups visiting the museum required catering as part of their visiting experience. Our
catering team lead by Barbara Matthews and assisted by Judy, Nina and Nola must be
congratulated for exceeding all those visitors’ expectations.
For physical visitor satisfaction our museum visitor book mentions a similar message expressed
in different ways. The message can be summarised as “it is the best they have visited”.
Members will always be very important stakeholders and are our primary supporter base.
Our automated online membership platform (“memberfindme”) was implemented last
December and the process of managing members has now been simplified. As at the 1
September 2016 there were 311 members. 2015 financial year numbers have not been
included because they we not accurate. We can now correctly report our member numbers.
Thank you to Ross Bower OAM and our administration staff for getting this established.
Volunteers. Approximately one-third of our members (105) are volunteers for the museum.
Volunteers are involved in every aspect of the museum. There are even a few individual non-
members who do voluntary work for us when called upon. (See “Annexure A” attached for a
complete list of volunteers and some of their recorded tasks).
Volunteer satisfaction is measured by three measures: total volunteer hours, volunteer
participation and volunteer tenure. Volunteer hours decreased this year by 6.39% to 19,712*
hours or approximately 1,538 hours per month. Based on total volunteer hours, Volunteer
participation estimates reveal 33% of our volunteers performed 64% of the work, conversely
67% of our volunteers were responsible for 36% of the work done. Volunteer’s tenure records
show that the majority of our volunteers have been volunteers for longer than 3 years. *(These
figures include our collection on Southern Moreton Bay Island Museum, Russell Island.)
Summarising volunteer satisfaction. A minority of core volunteers are doing most of the work,
but the majority of volunteers are perceived as satisfied, because they have stayed more than
three years.
Volunteer rewards include our annual Christmas Party, a special volunteer thank you lunch, bus
trips, subsidized first aide training and uniforms.
Another reward and possible measure of volunteer satisfaction could be the consumption of
creamy biscuits…. but it is difficult to get an overall biscuit count as the bowl empties too
quickly!!!
Volunteers show great pride and ownership in our museum. It is an honour to work beside
such generous and decent people. Congratulations to you all and thank you for your
wonderful contributions throughout the year for all the jobs (big and small) you do for the
museum and the Redland Community. Regrettably, there are too many wonderful volunteers
to mention in this part of the report, please see “Annexure A”.
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Partners. The museum engaged and partnered with over twenty (20) other groups and
organisations. Some of these include Rotary Sunrise, Wellington Point and Cleveland Rotary
Clubs, Alexandra Hills and Cleveland Uniting Church Mens Sheds, Mates Theatre Genesis, North
Stradbroke Island Heritage Museum, Redland Model Railway Group, Southern Moreton Bay
Island Museum, RedArts, RedPac, Easter Festival, Bay FM, Australian Events, Robot Productions,
Redland Chamber of Commerce, Redlands Tourism, Redland City Bulletin, and more recently
Donald Simpson Leisure Centre, Volunteering Redlands and Cleveland Traders at Crazy Day to
name a few. Thank you to these organisations for your support and we look forward to
continuing our friendship.
Events. Our physical visitor numbers increased partly because we engaged with the organisers
of Cleveland showground events but also because of many other activities. During the
showground events, we offered to open the museum to their patrons for no charge. The
organisers are generally appreciative and pay a donation because it adds a valuable attraction
to their event. We also sell various products for fund raising during the events. The most
successful to date has been the Cleveland Caravan Boating and 4x4 Expo last September. This
particular weekend added over $4,014 to our self-generated funds. Thank you to Tony and Jan
Spinks for project managing this project. We are sure these events will be great opportunities
for increasing visitor numbers and fund raising into the future.
Other showground events that may contribute in FY2017 are the Rockabilly Festival, the Easter
Festival and GreazeFest. We are always looking for other opportunities.
The most important event on our calendar for several years has been the Australia Day Plays.
This year we raised $10,368 by partnering with Mates Theatre Genesis. This was down
considerably on the previous year ($14,404) but was the second best result. Chad Sherrin,
Director has been easy to work with over the last few years organising these plays.
The Radio Plays were a sell out in October and contributed $1,272 to the museum and the
Director and museum member Jan Nary should be thanked for this great effort. The Redland
Model Railway exhibition in September 2015 increased our visitors by 923 and has been a
successful partnership with the “train” men and women for a few years. Thanks to Cindy Scott
and John Burt.
Blacksmiths. Thanks to all our blacksmiths for their contribution in making the showground
events a success. There are always interested bystanders watching when the blacksmiths are in
action. Thank you particularly to Paul Jones for maintaining his strong interest.
Machines and Engines. Similarly our volunteers in the engines area are an added attraction
during events. Thanks to them all and Ken Hansen more specifically.
Exhibitions. There is a separate report attached and it has been compiled by our Exhibition
Officer, Rick Thomason OAM.
However, a special mention should be made of the “Wings over Redlands” exhibition opened by
His Excellency the Honourable Paul de Jersey AC. Rick and Terence Hendricks must be
congratulated for managing this exhibition. Terence is now on the local lecture circuit passing
on his well-founded knowledge of Redland’s history of aviation to community groups.
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External activities. Several of our volunteers have visited different community groups to talk
about many aspects of the museum. Thank you to Phil Robinson, Ross Bower, Rick Thomason,
Gordon Davidson and Terence Hendricks for spreading the word on behalf of the museum. We
also had some meaning input into the preservation of Willard Farm and the need to expand the
Redland City Council Heritage Policy.
2. Developing a significant collection
Explanation: The collection is the reason the museum was started. It is why we are a charitable
not-for-profit organisation and it is essential that the collection is transparently gathered,
maintained, protected and reassessed. The purpose of developing an excellent and significant
collection will not change from year to year.
The gauge for success regarding the management of our collection is to show progress and
improvements in the areas of museum reputation, artefact knowledge, protection, security and
accessibility to research. The following explains how we measured up for FY2016.
Reputation
Our reputation for respecting and handling donations is of a high standard. We react quickly
to complaints and we are working within the guidelines of our current Collection Policy and
Procedures.
Management received two donor complaints. The first complaint related to the selling of the
donated goods on a bargain table during last year’s Family Fun Day. This practice has been
stopped because it was against our Collection Policy and was never an approved activity. The
second complaint was about the length of response time from the museum about their
donation. This was investigated and was due to a backlog of items requiring assessment. Once
dealt with, we reviewed the way potential donations entered the museum. A “donation
proposal” form has now been introduced which keeps potential donations out of the museum
until they can be assessed by our accession committee. There is also a process to help people
unable to complete the form.
This change has worked to eliminate excess de-accessioned objects and reducing processing
time.
Another procedure implemented allows all objects accepted into the museum to be tracked
from their entry into the museum.
Ross Bower OAM our Collection Manager and his team have implemented these procedures.
Ongoing training for relevant volunteers has also been undertaken.
Knowledge about collection
a) Collections volunteers are progressively stocktaking objects in the collection storage area.
A museum wide stocktake is anticipated to be completed by next year (2017). The
outcome of these stocktake will result in an accurate object database.
b) Upon completion of the stocktake all objects will be identified in their locations. Our
recently re-enforced use of the “Object movement record” form and training of volunteers
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has made life easier for collections to track object movement and their location. This policy
has been successful and will no doubt continue.
Protection and security
Early in the financial year security gates were installed in the collection area. The collection
area volunteers are carefully trained to handle objects correctly.
The museum collection is not insured so our procedures need to be strongly followed.
Research accessibility.
Management decided in January this year to introduce the cloud based museum object
recording platform known as EHive. This platform will run concurrent to our existing system
including paper records. Following testing and training of volunteers, this system will become
the future database for our collection.
EHive supports quick recovery of information and is a software platform purpose-built for
museums. Full implementation will enable online and local research for members and the
public.
Our hard working volunteers in Collections should all be congratulated for the progress they are
making as well as maintaining the basic but essential processes involved in collecting our
communities significant objects. (See “Annexure A” for names.)
2. Managing our museum business
Explanation: This is where the management committee, elected by the museum members, use
their collective skills to achieve the objectives described in the Constitution. They also have to
comply with any legislation that would impact on the museum.
The gauges for success will be improvements in quantitative factors such as our financial
sustainability and growth and qualitative areas such as governance, administration procedures
and workforce management.
Did museum management improve in FY2016?
For FY2016 we have maintained a strong financial position.
The financial facts are highlighted in the Treasurer’s Report and our Audited Financial
Statements for FY2016. To summarise, the museum achieved a strong cash flow surplus
allowing almost half the surplus funds to be moved to Reserves for the future and the balance
to be used to develop our facilities now. Our accounts meet the relevant Australian Accounting
Standards.
We use annual forecast budgeting for our operating and capital spending.
The strong financial outcome is a result of many hours of fund raising by our volunteers and
also financial support from the Redland City Council.
The Redland City Council contributes for our basic operating expenses under a Memorandum of
Understanding which expired on 30 June 2016. Without this contribution the museum would be
financially challenged. We have had agreement in principle on the next five (5) year funding
agreement and expect the documents from Council early September.
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The other areas of management progress have been made in FY2016:
Governance progress
a) Writing a business plan from 2016 to 2021 setting a strategy for future management
committees to follow,
b) Reviewing the 1987 Constitution with the expectation of a revised edition ready for
members by November 2016
c) Building a management structure in the museum that encourages succession
d) Discussions and agreement in principle with Council to renew the operational grant
agreement
Administration procedural improvements.
a) Further implementation of our event and member software, memberfindme.
b) Documenting policies and procedures – more to do.
c) Fine tuning of management committee meeting agendas
d) Processes for dealing with new proposals
Workforce management.
a) Our Employed workers
i. Administration officers training in MYOB
ii. Regular staff meetings
iii. Implementing new software
iv. Developing digital strategies that are reducing paper files
b) Our Volunteer workers
i. Professional Indemnity for members of management committee
ii. Empowering subcommittees with more responsibility
iii. Maintaining a regular workplace health and safety program
iv. Ongoing training for newer volunteers – good but needs more work.
v. Spreading weekend reception duties across more volunteers.
3. Developing our facilities
We aim to continually improve our museum. We develop our facilities for the purpose of
either looking after and displaying our collect better or providing improved services that
attract and retain visitors.
During FY2016 our capital spending was $24,609 compared to $23,392 in FY2015.
Some of this capital spending was provided by grants from the RSL Redlands, Redland
Foundation, Redland City Council and Federal Department of Veteran Affairs.
The improvements are summarised below:
Completed installation of enterprise WiFi throughout museum
Final stage of upgrade for new telephone system
Abnormal maintenance including the replaced flooring in display rooms
Two high grade display cases for World War 1 exhibition
Air conditioning extension to exhibition officers office
Car park between tennis courts and museum
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Concrete slab for engine display during showground events
Network attached storage device purchased as first stage of network upgrade
Purchase of computers and software
Acknowledgements
On behalf of the management committee I would like to thank our small band of staff for their
wonderful help throughout the year, many times above the ‘call of duty’. Thank you to our
manager Hein Olivier and our administration officers Kim Knijff, Sharon Froome and Alison
Seeley (left September). Your consistent and stable assistance is essential for the management
of the museum.
The management committee would also like to thank our Mayor Karen Williams and all
Councillors but specifically our museum representatives Councillor Wendy Boglary and Paul
Gollë. Our appreciation also goes to the many Council heads and employees who have helped
us throughout the year. Council has always been excellent friend to the museum and we do not
take this relationship for granted.
We would also like to congratulation and acknowledge museum members who have won
awards throughout the year.
Ross Bower OAM
Rick Thomason OAM
Susan Russell OAM
Deirdre Hargreaves RCC Australia Day Award
Albert Benfer Rotary Foundation Triple Ruby
Peter Robertson “The Greg Cook” volunteer recognition award
Barbara Matthews “The Greg Cook” volunteer recognition award
I would like to thank the current management committee and members who have served over
FY2016. The hours spent have made the museum what it is. Thank you to Phil Robinson (Vice
President), Sylvia McGarry (Secretary), Jan Spinks (Treasurer) and committee members Tony
Spinks, Kellie Kingston, Tracey Mann and Liz Blumson. Thanks to past management committee
members Annabelle Alexander, Gordon Davidson and Jim Gilbert who did not re-nominate at
last September AGM. Finally I would like to thank two excellent leaders and mentors who have
been responsible for growing this museum, Kath McNeilly OAM and Ross Bower OAM. All
involved on this committee have worked hard for the museum and you are all excellent people
who are contributing selflessly to our community.
Conclusion
The museum has had a successful year as a result of the generous input and contributions from
our volunteers, members, staff, Redland City Council and other stakeholders.
The museum will continue to be an irresistible place to visit with an irreplaceable collection of
historical stories and objects.
Your Redland Museum is in good hands.
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Treasurer Report By Jan Spinks
Financial Year 2015-2016
UHY Haines Norton Chartered Accountants were engaged by the Redland Museum Management
Committee to ensure our financial statements achieved Australian Accounting Standards. The Audit
report will give museum members and stakeholders an assurance that the financial affairs of the
museum are being maintained and monitored to a high standard. The auditors provided their report
to the Management Committee on 19 August 2016. Copies of their report are available to members
at the museum reception and will be emailed to members.
Income
Grants
The Redland City Council provided grant funding for all museum operational expenses.
Redland City Council Councillors’ Small Grant
Redland RSL Community Grant
The Redland Foundation
Self-generated income
This income was obtained through visitor admissions, membership fees, exhibitions, fund raising
events, donations and bank interest. These self-generated funds were used for capital spending
projects, transfers to reserves and volunteer rewards.
Explanations
Using self-generated income, capital expenditure of $24,600 which was a slight increase on 2015, was achieved.
Also from self-generated income $35,176 was transferred to reserves. These restricted future reserves now total $248,903 and are fully covered by term deposits.
An underlying surplus earned from self-generated funds excluding the depreciation expense was $76,869. For the year 2015-16 the depreciation expense was $136,323. After depreciation the deficit was $59,454.
The sub-committees for Property Plant & Equipment, Collection, Exhibitions, Marketing, Display and Textiles are working within their allocated budgets.
Conclusion
The Management Committee is very grateful to all of our funders for their continued support.
We also thank our hard working band of volunteers who help raise the much needed funds so
continuous improvements can be achieved. Personally, I thank the three past treasurers who have
supported, encouraged and advised me during the year. I would also like to thank Hein Olivier,
Kimberley Knijff and Sharon Froome for their valuable assistance.
Treasurer
Redland Museum
6 September 2016
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Subcommittee and other group reports
Exhibitions subcommittee By Rick Thomason OAM
Financial Year 2015-2016 Following the 2015 Annual General Meeting, the year began with the major exhibition ‘Wings Over Redlands’. This was the concept of aviation enthusiast Terence Hendricks and had at its core the Flying Boat services operating out of Redland Bay from 1953 – 1972, together with World War II aviation activity, Crop Dusting and Recreational Flying in the Redlands. The exhibition was opened by the Governor of Queensland, His Excellency the Hon. Paul de Jersey AC who hailed the Redland Museum one of the best in the State. Elements from the exhibition including the scale model flying boat and Wirraway aircraft were subsequently donated to our collection. This was followed by ‘Pacific Tides’, Redlands South Sea Islander history. This was first featured at RPAC during the Pacific Tides Festival, an initiative of Redland City Council. The content of the exhibition was then donated to the museum archive and displayed here together with Charles Zuber’s collection of photographs of South Sea Islanders in the Redlands, also from our archive. Narelle Renn’s exhibition ‘Turning the Tide’ was rehung as it had been added to somewhat since it had first been shown here. It focused on the plight of the turtle population in Moreton Bay. Narelle has presented several environmental exhibitions in the museum over the years. True to our policy of supporting local artists and artisans, two artists have exhibited in the gallery recently. Anne Badger’s exhibition ‘Sri Lankan Impressions’ was opened by Councillor Paul Gollé followed by Buffy Jackson’s exhibition ‘Transience’ opened by Sue Drummond from the Australian Decorative and Fine Arts Society. Anne’s exhibition was inspired by a journey in Sri Lanka and Buffy’s was based on her visions of the Australian landscape. We were asked by the Redland Beekeepers Association to mount a small exhibition in May which was Honey Month. This was augmented by a lovely collection of photographs of Australian Native Bees by wildlife photographer, Erica Siegel. I would like to acknowledge Liz Blumson and Sandy Campbell, the museum librarians, who for some time have been augmenting the exhibitions with relevant displays of publications from our collection. Thanks also to everyone who has assisted me with lighting, hanging, catering and office administration, and to Bay FM and Redland City Bulletin for their support. A recent addition to our collection has been made by Macleay Island musician and artist Colin Offord whose project ‘The Redland Zither, has resulted in this unique instrument being donated to the museum after a series of workshops and concerts connected with the project. The zither, fashioned from a Cypress Pine log sourced from a Moreton Bay Island, together with Colin’s international reputation makes this an interesting acquisition. Exhibition Officer
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Southern Moreton Bay Island Museum By Kay Ross
We were invited to put on a display at the presentation for the sculpture acquisitions for the 4 Island
Festival recently. One of our members made a sculpture using old machinery and cart parts,
however we were not chosen as one of the acquisitions, so missed out on the $7000 prize. Bob Grice
put a lot of time and effort into getting the sculpture ready and down to the park, and the rest of us
worked on the story boards.
The display has pointed out that we need to look at acquiring a better mechanism for mounting
displays rather than using the backs of old electoral advertising! We really do operate on a shoe
string here.
We have been trying through the aligned organisation of the Russell Island Cultural Centre (RICCI
Inc.) to get a site here on the island to pull together all the visual arts and cultural organisations. We
have not been very successful as yet, due to in order to even get a permit to occupy the site. We
need to commit a large amount of funding. The structure for RICCI Inc. was to be the Incorporated
Association that we all belonged to and were insured by.
In the meantime the Kennedy Park farm house site had been used as a meeting area and a place to
work for some groups. However, after many years of this being successful, Council decided that a
doorway was not wide enough for a person with a disability so the site was shut down. The groups
were allowed to take over parts of the Recreation Hall on a free basis until 30th June, when budget
issues would decree new charges. As a member of the Museum and RICCI I saw an opportunity to
have a presence for both at the same venue. We had discussions with Council officers who were so
enthusiastic and even talked over the idea that RICCI could in future be the organisation that would
run the hall on Council’s behalf. All went well until the officers took the idea to their manager and
he/she said no! Back to square one.
Council has now fixed the doorway at Kennedy farm, it only took a couple of months. At this point I
need to say that I am now speaking to you about a “commercial in confidence” matter. We have
been told confidentially that Council is about to ask for “expressions of Interest” for the occupation
of the Kennedy Park farmhouse. This site is not suitable for the Museum as it is too small, however
it is suitable for one of the arts groups here and I have written a letter in support of their claim. The
farm house is part of the R.I. Sport and Recreation precinct. My thinking on this is that if we can get
Council to amend the zone to include the arts/culture as passive recreation, we, the museum, could
get a future foothold in the precinct and eventually move to that area. The site is closer to the main
town area and can easily accommodate several more building as it is 3ha. We wait in hope.
Another venture we are undertaking is to be part of the upcoming “Island Made” exhibition here on
the island. It is going to be about what is made within the islands of Moreton Bay and will run for
some time here, and next year it is moving to the Redland Gallery. Trish Dobson came to the
museum today to take stock of what we can supply for the exhibition. This will mean some artefacts
will be on loan to the exhibition and I need to know if we have paperwork that covers this situation.
It is hoped that we may be able to have an interactive exhibit for the day the schoolchildren visit.
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Last years’ exhibition was very well received, so hopefully this one will be too. It is done in
conjunction with the Quandamooka people and their festival.
Another project is our schools centenary in October. We hope to be able to open for bus tours and
to have a small display at the school as well. We have been trying to put together all the family trees
of the original settlers but they get very convoluted as you can imagine in a small community!!
Last week Blue Care brought along some of their older gentlemen to visit and they plan to come
again soon as the few hours they were there were not enough for them. We may be able to get
some more information regarding tools and implements from them with their memories.
Later this year we will be having the Festival of the 4 islands and if we can we will have some sort of
exhibition at Russell.
Textile Group By Jan Banks
Financial Year 2015-2016
Last September our Textile Team installed the “Threads of Courage” Exhibition displaying many
special items from both World War I and II, plus the Korean and Vietnam Wars. It was an honour to
display these items and to read the stories of those who had worn them. One of the special items
was an Army jacket worn by Norm Dean OAM ED who served in WWII and was the Founder of the
Redland Museum. In June 2016 we installed our current Exhibition “Shall we Dance” featuring
gowns and accessories from the 1920s to the 1980s plus a tuxedo from that era. The gowns are
quite striking and we have received many favourable comments in regard to this Exhibition. It has
been a pleasure to display some of the beautiful items from the Redland Museums Textile collection.
Our team joined the bus trip to see Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries Costume Exhibition at Old
Government House and admire the stunning and beautiful costumes and the work involved in
creating them for the TV Series by award-winning costume designer Marion Boyce.
We have been processing into the Museum Collection many items during the year but our main
focus has been to complete the stocktake of the Textile collection which has been a huge task and
has nearly been completed. A new system – EHive - has now been installed so we are now preparing
to adapt our entries and stocktake results to EHive and the new data entry system. This will be a
challenge for us in the coming year.
We also assisted with Textile items for displays throughout the Museum. An example of some in
which we were involved were: two suitably dressed mannequins for the Rockabilly weekend; bags
and hats for the different Library displays in the glass cabinets in the main hall; two dressed
mannequins for the August “Tea Exhibition”; a nightie for the display in Bloomfield St for the Crazy
Day Wednesday; changing the vestments on the mannequin in the Chapel to coincide with the
particular religious event for that month; cleaning the clothes from the Stage coach drivers and
assisting Ray and Don to re-dress them, which was a little bit difficult! We have recently also
removed approx. 100 of the small dolls from the Mrs James doll display and cleaned all the shelves
before replacing the dolls and labels.
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My thanks go to our Textile team of Anne Tully, Anne Fermer, Nola McCullagh and Agnes Tardent for
their hard work during the year. Anne Tully and Nola are always quietly working; Anne Fermer knits
wonderful toys for sale at reception and has recently finished her 60th duckling! Agnes is an
accomplished sewer and recently reached the amazing total of 90 Garment bags she has made over
the years for the storage of uniforms, gowns etc. Our special thanks to Anne and Agnes for their
efforts – we did present them with special awards! Thanks also to Audrey Warner for her lovely
knitted toys.
Thank you so much to all those who have so willingly assisted us during the year, particularly Rick
Thomason, Steve, Mike, Russell, Peter Robertson, Hein, Kellie, Ross, the collection group, Les
Warner, Liz and Sandy and of course Kim and Sharon, your assistance has been greatly appreciated.
We look forward to another great year in Textiles.
Marketing subcommittee By Doug Alexander
Financial Year 2015-2016
The marketing subcommittee consisting of May Sheppard, Myann Burrows OAM, Terence Hendricks,
Phil Robinson and Doug Alexander have been diligently working together to build the museum
brand. The emphasis is to encourage visitors and build interest from members of our local
community.
This strategy is being executed by promoting the museum as a treasure chest full of treasures. This
approach is being referred to in all our press advertising. You may have seen the advertising.
Myann is producing a monthly editorial in the Redland City Times highlighting and telling the story
behind a particular artefact. Meanwhile, in every edition of Senior’s Lifestyle, May is producing
another editorial about some other aspect in the museum.
Terence is a great contributor and is working on several marketing ideas.
The subcommittee was formed in November last year and investigated our internal and external
signage, promoted and marketed most events held, built up information about possible tourist
opportunities. Phil will be able to assist us in future in his role on the Redland Tourism
Subcommittee.
Members of the marketing subcommittee have set up a marketing stall promoting the museum in
several different external events throughout the year.
This subcommittee is working well and is always investigating several ways to market the museum
including new brochures, online impression advertising, signage and several other activities.
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Displays By Kath McNeilly OAM
Financial Year 2015-2016
Our Display Committee consists of Kath McNeilly OAM, Ken Hanson and Tony Spinks, who aim to
continually present the Museum’s fascinating Collection in the best way possible to interest visitors
of all ages.
They work together on a weekly basis checking permanent displays for cleaning and alteration as
required, catalogue and check items in display cases and organise new displays when additional
interesting objects are received into the Museum’s Collection.
When deemed necessary, the Display Committee engage and work with volunteers with special skills
in an ongoing program of restoration work, so visitors can view items in good condition without
losing their unique significance.
This year, a new Flying Boat exhibition featuring the ‘Wirraway’ was hung, new interior directional
signage installed, informative leaflets created for visitors to take home as desired, plus a small mural
added alongside the Grandview Hotel Mural on the western wall. Currently, a new mural is being
created as an interesting and eye-catching backdrop to our historical printing presses.
We believe, from the amount of positive feedback our Museum continually receives, the Museum’s
displays are attractive, informative and offer a great deal to visitors of all ages.
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Annexure A
List of Volunteers at Redland Museum (based on records as at 05/09/2016
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Area of Responsibility *Volunteers involved
Armourer Peter Robertson
Audio Visual Norm J Dean, Jim Gilbert
Blacksmiths Paul Jones, Russell Dinte, John Hargreaves, Jason Jarrett, Duncan Shingles-
Riley, Therese Woods, Adrian Watson
Building Artie Rentoul, Bob Skinner, Bob Gray, Ross Bower, Russell Dinte
CateringBarbara Matthews, Judith Fleming, Nola McCullough, Nina Lewis, Ian
Munday, Tony & Jan Spinks, Malcolm Savage
Cleaning Peter Adam
Collections
Deirdre Hargreaves, Denise Nicholson, Gary Devlin, Helen Duggan, Helen
McKenna, Ian Wheeler, Jillian Tuckwood, Patricia Lack, Peter Robertson,
Ross Bower
DisplaysKath McNeilly, Noel Wakerley, Tony Spinks, Ken Hanson, Irene Cole,
Gordon Davidson
Electrical Steve Johns and Mike Wiggins
ExhibitionsRick Thomason, Sandra Davis, Jan Banks, Terence Hendricks, Sharyn
Watson
General Assistance
Bevyn Cornford, Bob Skinner, Brian & Susan Russell, Catherine Corbett,
