Jan Pentland Memorial Award
The Jan Pentland Memorial Award is an annual honour, recognising a member of the FCVic who has worked in the service to the wider community.
The Jan Pentland Memorial Award
The Jan Pentland Memorial Award is an annual honour, recognising a member of FCVic who has worked in service to the wider community. The award is named after one of our esteemed Life Members.
Jan worked tirelessly for many years to promote the cause of financial counselling in Victoria and throughout Australia. She was Chair of the national peak, AFCCRA (now Financial Counselling Australia, FCA). Her advocacy led to AFFCRA being funded for the first time in 2009.
Jan passed away in 2009, but she continues to be an inspiration to our sector.
PAST RECIPIENTS OF THE JAN PENTLAND MEMORIAL AWARD
2020 – Leonie Cooke
2019 – Sandra Blake
2018 – Jo Parkin
2017 – Lisa Garlick
2016 – Mona Mrad
2015 – Maria Turnbull
2014 – Jill Com and Jenny Elvey
2013 – Rhonda Mahoney
2012 – John Mumford
2011 – Ken Slatter
2010 – Barry White
LEARN MORE ABOUT JAN PENTLAND
During her lifetime, Jan was an active member of both the state and national financial counselling peak bodies – serving on almost every working group and committee of our organisation and spending many years on the AFCCRA council, including several years as Chairperson.
Her passion and determination for social justice were infectious and influential.
In June 2014, the Devil’s Advocate published an interview with David Morawetz, Jan’s partner. Jan’s informative contributions to the Devil’s Advocate were a highlight for many years. We thank David for his time providing this interview.
Nomination Process
Nominations are currently closed
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Nominations are now open!
Nominations are now open for the 2021 Jan Pentland Memorial Award.
CRITERIA
The award is for an individual member of FCVic who has demonstrated excellence in financial counselling service to the wider community* above and beyond their normal duties as a financial counsellor.
Examples could include but are not limited to:
- Contributing to the welfare of the wider community in some way while working as a financial counsellor.
- Providing financial counselling input to a community development activity
- Helping a community recover from a natural disaster
GUIDELINES
- Provide a summary of why you think your colleague would be a worthy recipient of the award.
- Make sure you address the criteria, for example, by outlining how the nominee has helped their community over and above their job description as a financial counsellor.
- The nominated person doesn’t have to be present at the awards presentation to be eligible for their award. A proxy can accept the award on the recipient’s behalf. The FCVic office will liaise with the nominator to arrange this beforehand.
- Nominators may attach additional pages and supporting materials to the nomination form.
- The FCVic Board will appoint a selection panel to consider the nominee’s relative merits in accordance with the criteria for the award they are nominated for.
- The panel will provide recommendations for the awards on a confidential basis to the FCVic Board. The awards recommended by the Panel will be considered by the Board for ratification. If a recommendation is not ratified the award will not be conferred. The Board’s decision is final and no correspondence will be entered into.
CLOSING DATE FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations for 2020 are now closed.
CLOSING DATE FOR NOMINATIONS
Nominations close 31 August 2021.
AWARD PRESENTATION
The award is presented at the annual FCVic Gala Awards event.
The 2021 FCVic Gala Awards event will be held on Thursday, 14 October 2021 at Pullman on the Park, East Melbourne.
Financial Counselling Victoria thanks David Morawetz for his generous support of this award.