I’m pleased to share a strategy update with you that coincides with the successful completion of two-years of the Society’s 2024-2028 Strategic Plan, “Strengthening Communities, Transforming Lives”. 

Over the past two years, outstanding progress has been made to take new and improved approaches to accompany the people we assist, grow our services and programs, and uplift capability and systems internally. 

Highlights of this include our work to expand services and programs with the new Mercy House, the new site at Swansea, the doubling of Alcohol and Other Drug residential capacity with service delivery at Adele House, designing the Membership & Volunteer Strategy, and a new Vinnies Vans Strategy.   

Growth that strengthens the organisation is also clear in the expanding network of Vinnies Shops, our ‘Return and Earn’ CDS sites, excellent Employee Engagement, and in the launch of Vinnies Finds. The Property Plan and Privacy & Records projects continue to make excellent progress. 
 
Strategic Key Results from Q4 FY25 

The latest Strategic Key Results show we are on track or ahead of schedule on most of these important measures. 

Building Strategic Maturity 

We are also striving to build the organisation’s strategic maturity, and great progress has been made by way of refreshed progress tracking, prioritisation of strategic initiatives, targeted tool kits, support and resources. 

We look forward to the launch of the Strategy Delivery and Impact Hub on the Staff Portal, which will centralise further strategy updates, tools and resources for strategic initiative delivery and reporting. 
 
Looking Forward 
 
We are pleased to share the nine Strategic Initiatives for FY26, that we are invested in to continue delivering on our five-year strategy. 

 
The full FY25 End of Year Strategy Update is available on MAVS, with more details on strategic progress.