# Age Concern Wairarapa — Annual Report 2023–2024, including elder-abuse prevention and performance report Full local annual report and financial performance report for 2023–2024, with elder-abuse prevention outputs and explicit audit/date limitations. ## What this source contributes Age Concern Wairarapa’s full 2023–2024 annual report covers elder-abuse prevention, visiting, health promotion, Buddy Up!, governance and a performance report for the year ended 30 June 2024. Its 16 physical PDF pages are imposed booklet spreads containing 32 numbered printed pages, rather than 31 ordinary PDF pages. The elder-abuse section reports 38 referrals for suspected abuse, neglect or people in distress and 162 additional enquiries, alongside education and awareness activity. These are local provider outputs, not confirmed abuse cases, unique users or prevalence. The financial audit is qualified and explicitly excludes entity information and the service-performance statement from its engagement. The original also contains inconsistent compilation dating. This historical report cannot establish current staffing, programme availability or intervention effectiveness. ## Contents and page references - Cover, organisation, governance and leadership reports (printed pp.1–5) - Elder-abuse prevention, health promotion, visiting and Buddy Up! (printed pp.6–9) - Community support and treasurer’s report (printed pp.10–12) - Financial performance report, compilation, entity information and notes (printed pp.13–27) - Qualified independent financial audit (printed pp.28–29) - Closing acknowledgement and booklet back matter (printed pp.30–32) Page references distinguish physical PDF pages from printed booklet/report pagination. Wairarapa’s imposed spreads require reading the numbered halves rather than assuming sequential physical order. ## Substantive findings - The cover identifies Annual Report 2023–2024, and the performance report concerns the year ended 30 June 2024. The original has 16 physical booklet spreads containing 32 numbered printed pages in imposed, non-sequential reading order. - The elder-abuse section reports 38 referrals for suspected abuse, neglect or people in distress, plus 162 additional enquiries often involving follow-up. These are provider-reported activity counts, not 38 confirmed abuse cases or a unique-person total (printed p.6 / physical p.6, left). - Reported elder-abuse prevention activity includes 11 education sessions with 260 participants and 43 public-awareness sessions; the report does not establish a causal reduction in abuse (printed p.6 / physical p.6, left). - Visiting activity is reported as 51 clients, 34 visitors and 19 public-awareness/education sessions. These historical service counts are separate from the report’s differently dated secondary loneliness research (printed p.8 / physical p.8, left). - Buddy Up! reports 17 groups and 243 clients; health promotion reports 99 exercise/falls-prevention/line-dance classes and 46 coffee mornings. Counts across programmes must not be summed as unique older people (printed pp.7, 9 / physical pp.7, 9, right). - The treasurer describes a LifeCurve contract with Health NZ enabling four additional part-time staff and identifies Health NZ/MSD funding in that period. This does not establish current staffing or contracts (printed p.12 / physical p.12, left). - The financial audit is qualified because sufficient evidence was unavailable on completeness of member activities/outings revenue. The auditor explicitly was not engaged to audit entity information or the service-performance statement, so narrative programme counts are not independently assured by that opinion (printed p.28 / physical p.5, left). - Financial approval and the audit opinion are dated 12 September 2024, but the compilation report shows 25 August 2023 despite its 30 June 2024 reporting-period heading. This inconsistency is retained; no exact first-release day is established (printed pp.15, 18, 29 / physical pp.15 right, 15 left, 4 right). ## Practical use Use the report to understand the mix of historical Wairarapa safeguarding, visiting and social-connection activity, and to identify questions for provider/funder discussions. Compare programme outputs only with consistent definitions and periods, check current service availability separately, and preserve the financial-audit scope and qualification. Recommended readers: - Wairarapa support navigators and community providers - Safeguarding researchers and older-person advocates - Funders assessing historical service reporting ## Consumer implications - The report illustrates how safeguarding, visiting and social connection can sit alongside each other; verify current referral arrangements and programme availability directly with the provider. - Reported referrals include suspected abuse, neglect and distress, and do not establish confirmed abuse or guarantee an individual outcome. ## Policy implications - Treat programme counts as historical local outputs and seek comparable definitions, denominators and outcome evidence before inferring prevalence or effectiveness. - Retain the qualified financial-audit finding and its exclusion of service-performance information when assessing assurance. ## Provider and business implications - Use historical partnerships and staffing descriptions as discussion prompts rather than verified current capacity, contracts or a financial return on investment. ## Dates, original capture and verification Publication is retained at 2024 year precision. The cover identifies 2023–2024 and the accounts end 30 June 2024. Financial approval and the independent audit are dated 12 September 2024. The compilation report instead displays 25 August 2023, despite its 2024 reporting-period heading; no corrected date is inferred. The publisher’s /2024/10/ hosting path does not establish a release day. Original catalogue access remains June 2026, separate from the 10 October 2026 evidence review. - Preserved original: public/pdfs/2024 - Age Concern Wairarapa - Annual Report EARS.pdf - Physical PDF pages: 16 - Original size: 1651972 bytes - Original SHA-256: aa54c10b0db5a8a762bc15351ed722ab4dd2729db199c7301694eb03ccb36c8b - Primary-source review: 10 October 2026 - Publisher-hosted original was byte-identical on review; the bundled PDF and its filename are unchanged. ## Evidence boundary Local 2023–2024 annual report, not an EARS-only evaluation or national prevalence study. Sixteen physical spreads contain 32 printed pages, including scanned financial material. Referrals, enquiries and programme counts are provider-reported, may overlap and do not demonstrate unique users or causal outcomes. The qualified financial audit excludes entity information and service-performance reporting. A 25 August 2023 compilation date conflicts with the stated 2024 period; exact release day is unverified. Historical personnel, staffing, funding, secondary research and programme descriptions are not verified current services. Original and publisher-hosted PDFs are byte-identical. ## Primary sources and research trail - [Age Concern Wairarapa annual-reports index](https://www.ageconcernwai.org.nz/about-us/annual-reports/) - [Publisher’s 2023–2024 annual report PDF](https://www.ageconcernwai.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/AGMAnnualReport2024FINAL.pdf) The scoped research fixture at artifacts/research/elder-safeguarding-source-audit-2026-10-10.json retains original hashes, per-page extracted evidence, source comparisons and unresolved discrepancies. This companion is a research brief, not a replacement for the original report.