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With Covid throughout NSW unfortunately it has been very hard to keep trying to fund-raise within the United Hospital Auxiliaries in NSW. The NSW Health Dept have been very helpful especially when certain Hospitals had to be shut-down to volunteers and we as members of UHA are not able to work on any NSW Hospital premises. Unfortunately, we have lost some UHA volunteering members due to their making the decision not to do volunteering work again and also lost or had to close some of our smaller UHA Branches - Currently, we have 180 Affiliated UHA Branches of the United Hospital Auxiliaries of NSW Inc and with the lock-downs we have not been able to operate as in years before Covid shut-downs. UHA has not been able to operate within the Hospital premises for UHA Kiosks, Gift Shops/ Craft stalls/ Cafeterias due to NSW Health Dept decisions have not been able to operate on that particular Hospital premises especially the Hospitals with RED alerts -- some UHA members have been unable to volunteers for months as we all know with Covid. Fortunately, we do have some reserve trust funds so we under UHA have been able to purchase as requested by that particular NSW Hospital medical equipment for their health services to provide "Patient comfort and Care". Of course if NSW Health gave permission for any UHA Branch to operate we have then managed to run Bingo, trivia, market days, fetes, raffles, and many other ways of public fundraising activities. All Branch members must be registered with their Regional UHA Branch and pay a annual membership fee, all Branch Members who handle public funds must hold a volunteer collectors card which is issued by the UHA Region Branch Secretary pay an annual Affiliation Fee of $33pa to the United Hospital Auxiliaries of NSW Inc, this is the only payment received by Head Office from the Branches apart from the purchase of badges, raffle tickets and receipt books and payment to attend the UHA NSW Inc. Usually the UHA holds a State Conference at the end of October but we have had to cancel the last two years due to Covid lock-downs. The Head Office is manned by two part time staff. Currently our volunteer number of members since last report have decreased from 5000 to 4300... it is our very strong aim now to gain more new members and we are hoping some of the younger population will come to join our charity Organisation - we are currently updating our UHA Website and when not able to have our general Meeting or monthly Branch Meeting we are using zoom or skype - we are also from Head Office helping our UHA Branches with updating their technology for them to use digital data to keep in touch with our UHA members and also the public community especially with any fundraising events being staged by that particular UHA Branch Region. United Hospital Auxiliaries of NSW Inc (UHA) is funded by NSW Ministry of Health by an NGO Grant which is paid on a quarterly basis. All funds raised by our Branches are held in Trust
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Name: Purchase/Supply of Equipment to Hospitals, MPS and Aged Care Facilities
URL: http://www.uhansw.websyte.com.au/
Classification: Unknown or not classified (Unknown or not classified)
Beneficiaries:- General community in Australia
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