Corporate Services
CareSouth covers a huge geographic region with offices in Berkeley, Nowra, Ulladulla, Queanbeyan, Griffith, Wagga Wagga, Deniliquin and the ACT. The last 12 months has been a busy time for our Corporate Services team who have the responsibility of looking after CareSouth’s major assets, including our fleet of vehicles and suite of offices and living spaces.
July 2016
- Contracts were exchanged on three lots of vacant commercial land at Enterprise Ave, South Nowra. These lots comprise a total area of 6,870sqm and will be the home for our new head office and community hub facility. We intend to develop 4,530sqm of this land to house this facility and will retain 2,340sqm for future development.
September 2016
- Our Griffith Office relocated into larger premises at 106 Yambil St. This move was necessary to accommodate the growth in business and staffing numbers in the Western Region.
November 2016
- Work commenced on installing a new automated Work Order System to streamline our back office processes. This new system fully integrates with our accounting package and significantly reduces duplication and improves accountability and compliance. This system became fully operational February 2017.
- A Security upgrade was undertaken at our Bolong Rd, Bolong property. This upgrade included the installation of swipe card access and screening off the kitchen to make the area safer for staff and residents during meal preparation.
December 2016
- New kitchen cabinets and appliances were installed into our Deniliquin office. This upgrade was required to accommodate the increasing staffing levels in our Western region.
March 2017
- Our Wagga residential home relocated to a more suitable site at Hampden St, North Wagga. This new property offers more privacy and yard space for the young person living at the home.
- Our residential home at Worrigee received a minor upgrade including painting all rooms and ceilings and the installation of new vinyl flooring planks.
May 2017
- CareSouth entered into a commercial lease on office premises at Wagga Wagga. Securing this office space was the first step in growing our business in the Wagga Wagga region.
- Funding was received from NSW Land & Housing to complete structural repairs to our disability home at Kinghorn St, Nowra.
- Our residential disability home at Tartarian Cres, Bomaderry received a major upgrade which included interior painting, replacing internal doors, replacing roller blinds, installing a new leather lounge and installing a new built-in wardrobe in one of the resident’s rooms.
- Our residential property at Bolong Rd, Bolong received a minor upgrade which included painting a number of walls, creating a safe play area at the front of the property, mulching gardens, providing a safe external walkway to the staff office and providing staff with an outdoor breakout area which included a large picnic bench.
June 2017
- A contractor was engaged to complete a major upgrade to our Shoalhaven Youth Support Service at Moss St, Nowra. This upgrade included a new roof to the large carport area, new security gates at the front of the property and a semi-contained outdoor breakout area for residents.
- Our development application for our new Head Office & Community Hub at South Nowra was completed during June in readiness for lodgement with council. We have applied for a Federal Government Regional Jobs and Investment Package grant to provide dollar for dollar funding for our new Head Office and Community Hub at South Nowra.
