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AASW Budget Challenges - Mid Year Review
The Board of the AASW continuously works to meet the many needs of our 6500 members across a very wide range of membership services, throughout urban, rural and remote Australia, within the budget of membership fees and some ancillary income.
This always requires a delicate balancing act of how quickly we build and develop our programs while at the same time maintaining our core services to a very high standard.
The first six months of this year have seen us fall short of our budget income, while we have largely kept our spending to budget. In keeping with our responsibility to be prudent managers of members funds, the Board has therefore begun a program of reducing costs and meanwhile continuing to build our income and membership numbers further.
The majority of members won’t notice any differences but those members who are involved in some of our development programs may see them slow just a little for the rest of this financial year. Never the less we will maintain our momentum in our key programs of the College, CPD, Social Worker Registration, Reconciliation and Mental Health Social Work.
With this strategy we believe we can return to meeting our breakeven budget for this year 2011-12, and prepare for a sustainable growth budget for future years.
The Board would especially like to thank all branches and program convenors for their support during this review, and especially record their special appreciation to those programs where we are temporarily slowing our spending.