State Library of Western Australia

Foundation

ANNUAL REPORT 2010-2011

PATRON Mr Sam Walsh AO

CHAIR Ms Linda Wayman (to May 2011)

ACTING CHAIR Mr Conrad Crisafulli (from May 2011)

COMPANY SECRETARY Mr Conrad Crisafulli

PUBLIC OFFICER Ms Bronwyn Lewis

INDEPENDENT NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS Mr Gavin Fielding AM (to May 2011) Mr Richard Hazlewood (to November 2010) Ms Janet Davidson (to June 2011) Mr Matthew Allen (from June 2011) Mr Bret Mattes Mr Trevor Poustie Ms Margaret Allen Mr Malcolm Cowell

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Ms Bronwyn Lewis

STAFF Ms Melissa Tencer Corporate Partnerships Officer Ms Mellida Frost Bookkeeper Ms Hannah Lyles Volunteer

PROJECT STAFF: OUR PAGE IN HISTORY Mr Tim Vella Ms Tracy Hartley

STUDENT INTERNSHIPS Ms Jaimi Baile Curtin University Ms Rachel Cazier WAAPA

FRONT COVER Map courtesy of Journey Jottings www.journeyjottings.com

THE BOARD AND PATRON

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New General Manager: Jane King

Executive Director Bronwyn Lewis with CEO of Student Edge Julian Sallabank and John Hall (supporter).

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT

Our second year was one of consolidation and more firsts. Since our launch in November 2009 we started the hard road of raising funds, not just for iconic projects that branded and established the Foundation, but for projects that benefit the Library sector and in turn give back to the people the State Library ultimately serves.

To be starting a venture in a State with a poor philanthropic culture and in the midst of the GFC was a brave and courageous thing so I want to particularly thank the Library Board of Western Australia for their courage, commitment and cash to not only launch the Foundation but to underwrite it in its gestation, without their assistance the Foundation would not exist. I remember one of your Board members saying” we thought we would just start it and the funds would come” – thank you for taking the effort to learn about fundraising, about the building of those important relationships and seeing where we can travel together. Our Foundation is for your future too.

As I write this report, I prepare to handover the reigns to Jane King the new General Manager, as part of the planning process with the Board this year the Board adopted a new structure to adequately staff the running of the Foundation and its projects. So in the next annual report you will see new faces and roles carrying out the vision of the original Board (many of whom have transitioned out this year) and new and fresh staff ready to take the Foundation to its next phase. At this time I would like to particularly mention the Founding Board members and thank them for their ongoing commitment: Margaret Allen, Bret Mattes, Richard Hazlewood, Janet Davidson and the late Kay Poustie. While Margaret and Bret continue to serve the Foundation the transition of these fantastic ‘foundation’ board members to the new members sees the Board acquiring the skills and passion it needs to generate funds. I would like to thank Malcolm Cowell in particular for all his hard work getting our financial reports done each month.

The Foundation worked with Kay Poustie’s husband Trevor (now a Board member in his own right) and Matthew Allen the Chair of the Library Board of WA to create the Foundation’s first “In Memorial” campaign in October 2010.

The Kay Poustie Travel Grant, the citation at the announcement read:

Through her commitment to fostering potential in young professionals Kay Poustie’s legacy will live on. In honour of Kay’s contributions, the State Library of Western Australia Foundation intend to establish a study grant to recognise Kay’s commitment to, and belief in, an international perspective for the profession. Looking at new and innovative ideas, the grant aims to create global experiences for WA based librarians.

It came as no surprise that we received enough donations to fund two grants – not only was this a testament to how people cared for Kay but the need for Library professionals in WA to be able to look at innovative ideas and have global experiences in the rapidly changing world of libraries. Applications and Grants will be made early in 2012. This was the first campaign of this type to be run by a Library Foundation in Australia.

Also in October we won three MADPA (Museums Australia Design and Publications Award) winners again a first for a Library Foundation, the awards were for:

• Christmas Literacy Appeal• Foundation / Our Page in History launch invitation• Our Page in History – website award

Executive Director Bronwyn Lewis with His Excellency Mr Malcolm McCusker AO QC Governor of Western Australia and Mrs McCusker at Government House Perth.

We then had a really successful promotion through Our Page in History called “Our School in History” which culminated in a live breakfast show by 92.9 at PLC with Stan Walker (Australian Idol) singing live at PLC; the winning school. It was an amazing experience seeing him generously do duets with staff and students alike!

At this time, the opportunity to become involved with 2012 National Year of Reading arose. It is staggering to realise that 46% of adult Australians suffer from functional illiteracy; even more upsetting is the decline of skills in young people aged 14-18. These figures and more can be found in the ABS report but as you and I are happily reading this – think of those that struggle to read their medications or bus timetables and please do whatever you can to get involved in 2012.

The financial impact of an illiterate adult on our economy is close to $700,000 in their lifetime. Just increasing the skills one level will mean not only does that person not cost us, they will contribute about $125,000 to the economy. To me it is a “no-brainer” to do not only our best to improve these shocking statistics but to raise awareness so that governments, businesses and all our partners work on improving the status of both our State and Country.

Accordingly, the Foundation got behind some of the State Library’s initiatives and also ran important Stakeholder information events – not just in Perth, but with major Philanthropic Trusts and Businesses in Melbourne. This had good financial results and obviously great benefits to our clients.

In February 2011 we received our first grant from the McCusker Foundation to fund the Love2Read café based on the “Open Air” Library in Bryant Park, New York City. Not long after this Malcolm McCusker QC became our new Governor and we look forward to working with both him and Tonya over the coming years to improve the status of both literacy and philanthropy in WA. This commitment to National Year of Reading helped us secure further funding from the Sidney Myer Fund (May 2011) for project management whilst the Federal Government came on board.

Our second grant came in close on the heels, Lotterywest agreed to fund a pilot program of rolling out Our Page in History with Public Libraries – this project is critical to our

success as it addresses so many of the issues raised back in our first strategic planning session in 2008 so we were thrilled to receive this and look forward to sharing our improved content management system with you early in 2012.

In February we launched the first virtual Spelling Bee in WA – thanks to our fantastic partners the West Australian and Kinetic Education this project took our sponsorship dollars to over $700,000 making this a truly remarkable project engaging 3000 children around WA and culminating in a terrific live “Spell Off” filmed by Channel Seven and MC’d by Basil Zempilas. This figure is over double the national figure for libraries in the AbaF Survey of Private Sector Support, June 2010 – not a bad effort for a small team and particular mention must go to both Melissa Tencer and Alex Noor from the West Australian for their creative skills and daily maintenance of the program.

After much lobbying and documentation the Charitable Trusts Act 1962 was amended in May, this is a complex issue but makes fundraising in WA on an equal footing with the other states and helps organisations such as ours “which for their association with Government would be deemed charitable”. This along with the Federal Government’s changes in reporting (post the Henry Review) puts considerable onus on the non-profit sector to not only understand, but comply. This year we invited the national expert John Emerson from Freehills in Melbourne to address this for our colleagues at the Development Marketing Forum of all the Collecting Agencies around Australia. We also extended the invitation to our colleagues in the Chamber of Arts and Culture which we are proud to be a founding member and supporter.

While I am moving on, I am very proud of the legacy I have left in WA and will continue to support the Foundation and its aims from afar. I thank you all for you support and look forward to seeing the Foundation being a leader in the arts and philanthropic arenas.

Bronwyn Lewis Executive Director

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EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR’S REPORT continued

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DONOR HIGHLIGHTS

LINDSAY J PEET, MPHA, MILITARY HISTORIANEach year we are amazed at the individual generosity of people who care about the History of our State. One such person is Lindsay Peet, a regular donor to our ‘Cultivating Collections’ fund, has kindly donated the funds necessary to purchase a Dutch Bravery Medal for Humane Action and its accompanying documents.

Lindsay wrote the following to us to illustrate the importance of these medals and their history to our collection:

In 1943, Her Majesty Queen Wilhelmina of the Netherlands proposed the award of bravery Decorations to the crew of the refuelling lighter Nicol Bay plus a Broome Aborigine, for rescuing Dutch nationals (men, women and children) from the water near sinking Dutch Dornier flying boats in Roebuck Bay, Broome, on 03 March 1942. These flying boats had come under severe strafing attack by nine Imperial Japanese Navy ‘Zero’ fighters from Naval Air Group 202 based at Koepang in Dutch Timor. It is undoubted that the Nicol Bay was very close to the attack and that the three men mentioned below took considerable personal risks in carrying out their rescues as it was also carrying more than 180 drums of 100 octane petrol: a hit by one of the many 20 mm cannon shells fired by the ‘Zeros’ would have set the whole boat on fire.

Lindsay is also involved in a 90 minute documentary which is the story of an US Army Air Force B-24 Liberator heavy bomber which force landed on a remote salt pan in the northern Kimberley in 1943 after the world’s then longest bombing raid to Balikpapan in Borneo. We look forward to collecting more of WA’s military history with Lindsay in the years to come.

Above: Silver Medals for Humane Assistance: Laurence (also ‘Lawrance’) Nicholas Bruce, deckhand on Nicol Bay.

From left to right: The young Charles D’Antoine (L) and brother Adrian, who was also refuelling planes, however, D’Antoine was sadly not recognised by the Australian Government at the time because he was Aboriginal. Holding his Bravery Award at the Air Raid Commemoration Reception 1992, is Charlie D’Antoine, with brothers Douglas (seated) and Adrian (standing).

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STATE LIBRARY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA FOUNDATIONWe have audited the accompanying financial report of the State Library of Western Australia Foundation (the trust), which comprises the statement of financial position as at 30 June 2011, the statement of comprehensive income, statement of changes in equity, and statement of cash flows for the year ended on that date, a summary of significant accounting policies and other explanatory notes and the directors of the trustee company’s (the trustees’) declaration.

TRUSTEES’ RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE FINANCIAL REPORTThe trustees of the trust are responsible for the preparation and fair presentation of the financial report in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards (including Australian Accounting Interpretations) and the trust deed. This responsibility includes:

• designing, implementing and maintaining internal controls relevant to the preparation and fair presentation of the financial report that is free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error;

• selecting and applying appropriate accounting policies; and• making accounting estimates that are reasonable in the circumstances.

In Note 1, the trustees also state, in accordance with AASB 101: Presentation of Financial Statements, that compliance with the Australian equivalents to International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) ensures that the financial report, comprising the financial statements and notes, complied with IFRS

AUDITORS RESPONSIBILITYOur responsibility is to express an opinion on the financial report based on our audit. We conducted out audit in accordance with Australian Auditing Standards. These Auditing Standards require that we comply with relevant ethical requirements relating to audit engagements and plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance whether the financial report is free from material misstatement.

An audit involves performing procedures to obtain audit evidence about the amounts and disclosures in the financial report. The procedures selected depend on the auditor’s judgement, including the assessment of the risks of material misstatement of the financial report, whether due to fraud or error. In making those risk assessments, the auditor considers internal control relevant to the entity’s preparation and fair presentation of the financial report in order to design audit procedures that are appropriate in the circumstances, but not for the purpose of expressing an opinion on the effectiveness of the entity’s internal control. An audit also includes evaluating the appropriateness of accounting policies used and the reasonableness of accounting estimates made by the trustees, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial report.

We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our audit opinion.

INDEPENDENCEIn conducting our audit, we have complied with the independence requirements of Australian professional ethical pronouncements.

AUDITOR’S OPINIONIn our opinion the financial report presents fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of State Library of Western Australia Foundation as of 30 June 2011, and of its financial performance and its cash flows for the year then ended in accordance with Australian Accounting Standards (including Australian Accounting Interpretations).

Ray Woolley Pty Ltd Raymond Woolley, Registered Company Auditor No 16396 19 Bayport Circuit, Mindarie, WA 6030 22 October 2011

FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

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BALANCE SHEET as at 30 June 2011

ASSETS 2011 2010

Cash and cash equivalents 147,976 88,975

Trade and other receivables 1,450 -

Inventories 6,934 21,934

Prepayments 1,003 1,650

TOTAL CURRENT ASSETS 157,363 112,559

Property, plant and equipment 6,086 9,943

Intangible assets 19,958 29,003

Collection assets 1,839,728 1,833,310

TOTAL NON-CURRENT ASSETS 1,865,772 1,872,256

TOTAL ASSETS 2,023,135 1,984,815

LIABILITIES

Trade and other payables 24,838 14,708

Provisions 11,836 6,457

Deferred income 64,600 60,000

TOTAL CURRENT LIABILITIES 101,274 81,165

NET ASSETS 1,921,861 1,903,650

EQUITY

Settled sum 100 100

Retained earnings 1,921,761 1,903,550

TOTAL EQUITY 1,921,861 1,903,650

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CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES 2011 2010

Cash receipts from donors 384,484 393,585

Cash received from Western Australian Custodians Inc - 53,490

Cash paid to suppliers and employees (315,132) (307,243)

Interest received 498 183

Net cash from operating activities 69,850 140,015

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES

Acquisition of property, plant and equipment (1,052) (13,865)

Acquisition of intangible assets (3,380) (37,275)

Acquisition of collection assets (6,418) -

Net cash used in investing activities (10,850) (51,140)

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES

Settled sum - 100

Net cash from/(used in) financing activities - 100

Net increase in cash and cash equivalents 59,000 88,975

Cash and cash equivalents at 1 July 88,975 -

Restricted cash (64,600) (25,000)

Cash and cash equivalents at 30 June 83,375 63,975

A full financial report is available on line at www.statelibraryfoundation.org Or from the Foundation office please call (08) 9427 3351.

STATEMENTS OF CASH FLOWS as at 30 June 2011

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SPONSORS AND PARTNERS

$50,000+ ................... State Library of WAConcourse Holdings P/L Master Lotterywest Sidney Myer Fund The West Australian

$10,000 - $49,999 ... 92.9 RadioFMRio Tinto Sony Music Entertainment AustraliaStudent Edge

$10 - $9,999 .............. Bassendean Florist Carroll-Jung PR and Promotions Danish Patisserie Farm Weekly Flight Experience His Majesty’s Theatre FoundationParmelia Hilton Royal Beauty Day Spa Skywest Airlines WA Academy of Performing Arts

The State Library of WA Foundation is proud to support:

FOUNDATION SPONSORS

SPELLING BEE

OUR PAGE IN HISTORY PARTNERS

$50,000+ ................... LotterywestSidney Myer Fund

$10,000 - $49,999 ... McCusker Charitable FoundationMr Lindsay Peet

$10 - $9,999 .............. Mrs Margaret AllenMr Mircea AvramBendigo Bank Dr Veronica Brady Mr Bill BunburyDr Anne Chester Mr Conrad CrisafulliDeloitte AustraliaMr Nigel D’CruzFarm Machinery Dealers AssociationMr Brendan FitzgeraldMrs Patricia GallaherMr Greg GilmourMrs Patricia KailisMrs Catherine KelsoMrs Janet Holmes a Court ACMrs June HutchinsonMs Bronwyn LewisMrs Joanne MarchioroDr Bret MattesMs Jill MaughanMs Lennie McCallMrs Betty McGeeverMs Margaret MedcalfHis Excellency Dr Ken Michael ACMurdoch University LibraryProf Margaret NowakMr Robert O’Connor Q.C.Mr John and Mrs Elizabeth Picton WarlowMrs M A Sands OAMMr Robert SharmanDr Kerry Smith Ms Jan StewartMrs Nola WatersMrs Bernadette Waugh Mrs Judi Willmott

Thank you, thank you and thank again to the many businesses of Western Australia for their support in our second year.

This year our new project Spelling Bee our sponsorship profile has lifted us to the top of our sector – thank you to the West Australian: Bob Cronin for your sage advice and good humour; Nick Sertis and the indefatigable Alex Noor for creating a first for WA and helping us address the literacy issues of our kids! Thank you too, to Kinetic Education and in particular their West Australian distributors Concourse guided by the effervescent Kathryn Sforcina and Jason Patterson for their generous sponsorship of the Disneyland prizes. Thanks too, to Austereo for Basil Zempilas for MC’ing our event. We love 92.9!The Team at Skywest and Athena at Mercure your ongoing support is invaluable, and thanks also to Mario D’orazio, Jasmine Homer, Gayle Adams and Brett Stayt at Channel Seven for your terrific support.

Our Page in History continued to have great support from businesses and Austereo and Sony sponsored a fantastic event at PLC so thanks to Baz, Sam and Lisa for getting in the mood and dressing up as school kids, to Linda Wayman for agreeing to the event and Zina, Brock, Mark and the crew for having such joie de vivre and being so nice to the girls. Thanks to the wonderful Paul Kittelty for arranging us to have Stan Walker – one of the highlights was Stan singing with Mr O’Brien and then the absolutely amazing duet with Lily.

All through the year we have had the most incredible support from Julian Sallabank the CEO of Student Edge, thanks Julian! Again to our first partner Rural Press, through your generous support we have managed to leverage other partners.

Thank you also, to the wonderful volunteers who help us all year especially Hannah Lyles who has come in every week. Also to the students who chose the Foundation to do their internships, without these wonderful young people we would not be able to do half of our projects. We couldn’t operate without our wonderful suppliers in particular Chocolate Designs (our award winning team) and Matt Baker at Galaxy.

Finally, thanks to must go to our wonderful staff and the staff of the State Library and the Library Board of WA without you we wouldn’t love coming to work.

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DONORS THANK YOU

Since the Our Page in History launch the website has had:• 15,564 unique visitors• 20,739 visits• an average of 28 hits per day• an average of 5 minutes of engagement on the site• 106,204 page views• an average of 5 page views per visitor

Partnership with The West Australian to raise

awareness and money for Foundation while

addressing Western Australia’s low literacy levels.

• 10,250 absolute unique visitors

• 2,800 students registered on the site

• 22,000 visits since launch

• 152,557 page views

• an average of 8 minutes spent on the site

• 24% of students registered are

from regional/rural WA

• the competition was live for 50 days

and this constituted 422 hits and

204 unique visitors per day.

OUR YEAR AT A GLANCE

State Library of Western Australia Foundation Limited ACN 136 727 065 ADDRESS Perth Cultural Centre 25 Francis Street Perth WA 6000

PHONE +61 8 9427 3351 FAX +61 8 9427 3336 WEB www.statelibraryfoundation.org