St John is passionate about the wellbeing of South Australians and has been serving the community for over 125 years.
Each year St John provides the following to the SA community through the delivery of first aid, training, social inclusion and youth development programs:
Our people
|
| 826 |
Event Health Services volunteers |
| 413 |
Community Care volunteers |
| 668 |
Cadets and Juniors |
| 64.5 |
Staff (full time equivalent, including paid Trainers) (78 total) |
Communities helped
|
| 2,950 |
Events and emergencies attended* |
| 19,185 |
Patients treated |
| 478 |
Community Care clients
|
| 20,003 |
School children First Aid trained |
Volunteer hours
|
| 91,705 |
First Aid event duty hours* |
| 57,980 |
Training hours* |
| 28,860 |
Community Care hours |
Value of volunteering hours**
|
| $4,786,926 |
Event Health Services*** |
| $922,943 |
Community Care programs |
| $5,709,869 |
Total Value of volunteering hours |
Source : Annual Report 2014/15
*Based on calendar year
**Calculations for 2014/15 based on 2010 average wage rate by hour of $27.45 as published in ‘Economic Value of Volunteering in South Australia', a report by Duncan Ironmonger from the Households Research Unit, Department of Economics, escalated by the % increase in average weekly earnings from Nov 2010-May 2015 as per the ABS Time Series Workbook 6302.0 Average Weekly Earnings, Australia
***Duty and training