Year on year, the Ability Options STAR Awards highlight, recognise and reward our colleagues and teams for all the incredible work they do in line with Ability Options’ core Values of Trust, Respect, Inclusion, Courage and to Lead.
An event of this nature does not happen without the generosity and support of sponsorship. We’re thrilled to partner with this year’s sponsors and are incredibly thankful for their various contributions to the single biggest night of the Ability Options calendar. They truly allow us to celebrate our people who support our participants to live the lives they choose.
Our Gold Sponsors
We would like to thank our three Gold Sponsors of the 2024 STAR Awards: BrennanIT, ServiceFM, and Speak Your Language.
Brennan
Brennan is an Australian-owned systems integrator that has grown since being founded in 1997 to become the largest privately owned local player in the market. Headquartered in Sydney with offices across Australia, they to provide 24/7 services to their customers. Serving more than 1,400 business, enterprise, and government customers, the company continues to expand its services to meet customer needs. In line with this, the company has made seven strategic acquisitions and has established a new brand and division, Brennan Digital, to achieve timely solutions and support customers in their digital transformation journey by bringing together all their digital assets in one place.
As organisations continue to be challenged by global and local economic factors, by a workforce who demands more from the technology they use and the IT teams that support them, and customers who have more choice than ever before – means selecting a Technology partner who not only provides modern IT solutions, but who can become an extension of your business, working alongside you to enable success. For over 25 years, Brennan’s expert team has helped businesses achieve real success through innovative and secure technology solutions.
Brennan have proven expertise in driving tangible value for their customers by helping them transition to modern and innovative outsourced IT service solutions, back by their own tested and trusted systems and processes. Their continued investment in people, innovation, systems, and automation to better meet objectives mean their customers see them as an important, valuable, and trusted partner, as demonstrated by their world-class Net Promoter Score.
We would like to thank Brennan for supporting our STAR Awards since 2021.
ServiceFM
ServiceFM is a trusted partner in a variety of industries. From health and aged care to defence, corporate and mining, they can support your needs through innovative, scalable and efficient service models. ServiceFM manages your facilities in a personalised, scalable and agile way to make your work environment operate at its full potential. ServiceFM work hard to be a reliable and dependable service provider that ensures the safe, timely, and efficient delivery of services, maintaining high standards of transparency, compliance, and customer satisfaction.
ServiceFM understands that no work environment is the same, and that each of their clients’ needs are unique. They can help you consolidate your services into a personalised facilities management plan, giving you peace of mind that your work environment is being protected and improved every step of the way.
Single management across a portfolio of services creates significant cost savings for their clients in the public and private sector, especially when managing multiple worksites and locations.
Their service level agreements include:
- Cutting edge technology
- Management and Human Resources
- Proven Performance
- Quality Management
- Resources
- Safety
Operating across every state in Australia, ServiceFM takes great pride in its extensive national client partnerships, strategically located in major capital cities. Their enduring relationships extend to a reliable national subcontractor network. ServiceFM’s dedicated teams operate in diverse terrain – from metro to regional and rural areas. ServiceFM work across over 8,000 job sites across Australia.
Speak Your Language
Speak Your Language (SYL) is a leading Australian owned and operated translation and interpretation company with the capacity to offer expert translation and interpretation services for over 150 languages and dialects supported by NAATI-certified quality interpreters and translators. Their team provides tailored solutions to job networks, rehab providers, government agencies, and individuals across Australia.
With staff based in Sydney, Melbourne, Adelaide, Canberra, Brisbane, and Perth, they offer the highest access to language professionals, ensuring faster communication response times without compromising on quality or customer service.
Speak Your Language has established a panel of accredited translators and interpreters, most of whom have NAATI Level 3 qualifications or higher. As a result, SYL has come to be associated with service excellence, high quality translations, interpretations and outstanding value. Whether you need help interpreting or translating legal, medical, technical, website content, or personal correspondence, Speak Your Language can provide the solution.
Speak Your Language’s translating services are a favourable choice for clients who work across different time zones or require a translator for those emergency translation needs. Happily, they can help to eliminate communication boundaries with their exceptional services in Australia such as: On Demand Interpreting Services – Speak Your Language’s on-demand interpreting services allow you to pick up the phone and instantly access interpreting, whenever you might need it.
Three-way Telephone Interpreting : Speak Your Language can facilitate conference calls with third parties to ensure communication is clear and in the client’s native language. SYL further offer outbound client calls up of up to five parties and reverse phone interpreting.
Onsite/Face-to-Face Interpreting: Speak Your Language’s onsite interpreters are diligently prepared to come to your assistance in overcoming any potential face-to-face language barriers or other challenges.
Video Interpreting : Another of Speak Your Language’s services is the ability to communicate with an interpreter in real-time through your preferred video conferencing app.
AUSLAN Interpreting: AUSLAN (our national preferred sign language) interpretation is also offered by Speak Your Language’s trained and accredited staff.
Further Interpretation: Speak Your Language also offer non-verbal interpretation and translation, such as the translation of any important documents. Please note that when translating any written materials, SYL will work closely with you to maintain confidentiality and integrity of both your privacy and the material and its translation.
Call SYL today on 1300 000 795 for expert solutions to all your interpretation needs or visit their website.
Our Silver Sponsors
We would like to thank this year’s Silver Sponsors: CentroASSIST, CoAct, Interleasing, and Maxxia.
CentroASSIST
Assisting more than 3,000 community-based organisations across Australia, CentroASSIST streamline quality and knowledge management practices for community-based organisations.
Centro ASSIST removes the burden of compliance. Their quality management system allows for the seamless sharing of policies, processes, files, information and knowledge within either a NDIS or Aged Care organisation. This means providers can focus on what they do best for participants, efficiently and sustainably
CentroASSIST allows you to find documents in a fraction of the time, with easy access to example policies, example processes, knowledge testing, incident reporting, and more. You’re able to stay ahead of compliance standards; report, track, and continually enhance with integrated registers, internal audits, and continuous improvement tools. Their web app is designed with and for community-based organisations, to drive quality practices to the frontline. Let CentroASSIST remove this burden while you focus on what truly matters.
CoAct
CoAct is a national network of community service providers working together to create social and economic opportunities for participants and service partners.
CoAct works together with job seekers, employers, community services and government to solve issues. Collaboration is at their heart, and they truly believe that when they harness the power of many, they can activate communities. CoAct was born of problem solving, innovative thinking and collaboration, and those traits remain in their veins today. They’re what’s enabled them to be strong agents of change – in the sector, the community and most importantly, in people’s lives.
When you register with CoAct, their dedicated local team invests in you from the start
They put you in the driver’s seat and act as your co-pilot, providing you with personalised support tailored to your individual needs to help you find the right job sooner.
Quick statistics:
- 87% of job seekers recommend CoAct
- There have been 47.354 jobs placed across the CoAct network
- $17,696,177 has been invested into job seekers nationally
Ability Options currently services both Workforce Australia and Disability Employment Services (DES) programs with CoAct. Our extended partnership with this for-purpose employment services collective of providers has created greater opportunities for participants and has given us access to a broader range of resources increasing our capacity to provide high quality outcomes.
Interleasing
In seeking ways to retain transport assets without a large commitment of capital, disability service providers like Ability Options have turned to fleet experts who offer flexible solutions. Not only does this provide the opportunity to potentially unlock cash flow in current vehicles, it also reveals the many ways that a comprehensive fleet policy can drive better value going forward, and limit risks to organisations, employees and customers. By partnering with Interleasing, Ability Options benefits from a best-practice fleet operation, which helps solve the challenge of transport strategy in today’s operating environment.
In partnership, Ability Options and Interleasing deliver a tailored and comprehensive fleet management strategy which is key to streamlining and de-risking transport services. With Interleasing, Ability Options have a cost-effective funding model to limit financial risks and ensure ongoing access to quality and fit-for-purpose vehicles. On the employee side, Interleasing goes the extra mile to support safe driving. They are committed to keeping drivers, vehicles and the community safe with their Driver Training solution and partner with the SARAH group to promote road safety.
With the summer break around the corner, stay safe this holiday season. Take care on the roads and enjoy this time of year with colleagues, friends and family.
Interleasing are proud sponsors of the 2024 Star Employee Awards and committed to keeping drivers, vehicles and the community safe.
Maxxia
As Australia’s salary packaging experts, Maxxia is delivering real benefits and genuine savings. Now the country’s largest salary packaging provider, Maxxia has specialised in providing workplace benefits for over 30 years. These years of experience has led to delivering genuine tax-savings that help their customers do more with their money.
Maxxia specialises in providing workplace benefits that deliver genuine tax savings, allowing employees to do more with their money. Maxxia continues to pave the way for organisations in the not-for-profit and charity sectors by helping build effective programs for recruitment and retention of skilled and qualified workers. In-fact, Maxxia is Ability Options’ own salary packaging provider.
Maxxia’s main offerings are:
Salary Packaging
Why pay more tax than you have to? Maxxia’s Salary Packaging services mean you could save on income tax through salary packaging. At Maxxia, they’ve been helping Australians understand salary packaging for more than 30 years. These types of benefits and the amount you can package depends on your employer and industry you work in. Maxxia has created some helpful resources covering all the benefits that could be available by industry when Salary Packaging.
Novated Leasing
As one of Australia’s largest novated leasing providers, Maxxia are about helping you get the car you want while also providing the convenience and potential tax savings that come with salary packaging a car. If you could pay less tax, get a great deal and enjoy budgeting convenience and the support of their expert teams through a novated lease, why wouldn’t you?
Our Bronze Sponsors
We further extend our thanks to this year’s Bronze Sponsors: Canon and HESTA.
A range of our sponsors have been generous enough to support us for multiple years running. We look forward to continuing our partnerships with them for years to come including:
- Brennan, since 2021
- Canon, Maxxia, since 2022
We’d like to extend one last thank you to Speak Your Language, who have been one of our Gold sponsors for three years in a row. This kind of unwavering support is unmatched and highly appreciated.
Thank you all for helping us to both celebrate and champion our passionate and dedicated individuals and teams.
