• Corporate Leadership Winner – Alex Penson
  
  Alex has demonstrated outstanding technical, business, and leadership skills that have helped transform the UnitingCare RL business. Alex uses his skills to help reposition RL within UnitingCare’s current and future business with a strategy reset. Alex’s skills and knowledge of the RL sector establish an important connection for RL within the broader organisation and ensures RL and associated legislation is considered in any decision making. Alex’s leadership has both optimised asset performance and reshaped RL’s strategic importance within UnitingCare
• Community Leadership Winner – Joshua Campbell
  
  At 32 years of age, Josh is a hands-on, collaborative, and enthusiastic leader. Since he first volunteered as a bingo caller, he’s dedicated himself to caring for older Australians. He has vastly improved Glengara Care’s team culture, recruited a strong clinical care team, overseen NSW’s 100th Home Care Package, and established partnerships with residential aged care. His experience as an Assistant in Nursing has ensured he remains empathetic and understanding, providing support, advice and learning opportunities to his team.
  

• Large Operator >500 ILU – Glenaeon Village Renewal Project
  
  Perched high above a green canopy overlooking Garigal National Park and open to fresh ocean breezes, Glenaeon Retirement Village is a 30-year-old village comprising 221 independent living units, 51 serviced apartments and community facilities. The Glenaeon Village Renewal Project saw the integration of 55- new, premium independent living apartments designed to achieve flexibility, comfort, and sustainable living. The project has enhanced the overall quality of the village, introducing a fresh energy and vibrancy into a tranquil place defined by connection.
• Small Operator <500 ILU & Not-For-Profit – E.C.H. Encore Apartments
  
  The ECH Encore Apartments’ fusion of open-plan living with private hill-view balconies, coupled with a focus on community and inclusivity through intergenerational living, thus enhancing the quality of life for its residents, sets it apart from conventional retirement living models.

• Land Lease Development – Ingenia Lifestyle Latitude One
  
  Ingenia Lifestyle Parkside Lucas is a fresh, pet-friendly, land lease community located just 10 mins from beautiful Ballarat. Since the first residents arrived in June 2022, the community has blossomed and become home to 125 residents who enjoy contemporary home design and a range of facilities designed to foster social connection and support health and wellness. Parkside Lucas offers residents an appealing – yet practical – lifestyle solution that remains close to everything they love about the Ballarat region.
• Luxury Development – The Granton Brighton
  

  The Granton provides luxury retirement living within a boutique community of 34 carefully crafted residences in a range of spacious 1, 2 and 3 bedroom apartments.

  Designed with function and lifestyle in mind, its selection of shared and private spaces creates the perfect setting to connect – with support always there when residents need it.

  Located in the bayside suburb of Brighton, Melbourne, The Granton is a highly desired retirement community and operates a
  waitlist for residency.

• Small Operator <500 ILU & Not-For-Profit – Kokoda Residences
  

  Paving the way for Vasey’s future, Kokoda Residences presents a vertical independent retirement living community comprising 117 apartments, all wrapped around a sun-drenched north-facing courtyard.

  Kokoda Residences exemplifies excellence in design through innovative urban planning, confident yet sensitive architecture, warm and textured interiors and lush landscaping, to create a unique sense of place and community for residents, their family and friends to enjoy together. Its amenities include a lounge and bar, hair salon, cinema, gym, café, and alfresco terrace gardens.

• Large Operator >500 ILU – Reside Communities – Samford Grove
  
  Samford Grove Retirement Village has been transformed into a vibrant, bustling community, growing from 27 Villas to 119 Villas and 12 apartments with brand-new Community Centre ‘The Homestead’. ‘The Homestead’ is an extension of the resident’s homes – a place to gather, relax, to share life’s little moments. Samford Grove offers the ultimate retirement dream of lifestyle, connection and community, designed to reflect the character and architecture of Samford, the sweeping valley views and country setting only 25km from Brisbane.

• Land Lease Development – Stockland – Halcyon Greens
• Luxury Development – Pavilions Blackburn Lake
• Village Development – Pavilions Blackburn Lake

• Refurbishment under $1M – Village Glen
  
  The refurbishment of the central Hub of the village includes the creation of CJ’s lounge and a new library space. The lounge provides coffee, light lunches and snacks to dine in or take away and the Library has an array of books, dvds and games. The hub is a meeting place for residents to socialise and is easily accessible by all.
• Refurbishment above $1M – Domaine Retirement Village
  
  In collaboration with the residents of Domainé Retirement Living, Aveo delivered the Community Centre Upgrade Project in September, 2023, transforming and refreshing 22-year old spaces and adding a sophisticated feel to the Doncaster, Victoria village. The project involved a revamp of shared spaces, and the addition of new social spaces, including a café, pergola, and barbeque area. The Community Centre’s new flexible and functional design is opening doors for residents to engage in new
  cultural, social and lifestyle experiences.

• Large Operator >500 ILU – Aveo Will Retirement Living Suit You? Campaign
  
  Moving to retirement living is a major life decision that can be filled with emotion and questions. Aveo’s Will Retirement Living Suit You? campaign allows retirees to seek answers to their questions. In a synchronised, multi-channel campaign, retirees are invited to tour Aveo communities and experience retirement living frst-hand at Open Home events. With 2,653 leads generated in 18 months to date, the invitation to look inside champions the benefts of retirement living and resonates across regional and metropolitan areas.
• Small Operator <500 ILU & Not-For-Profit – Bluecare’s ‘Feel at Home’ Campaign
  
  

  Blue Care’s Feel at Home campaign rose to the challenge of not only accurately and honestly representing its diverse portfolio of retirement villages – from resort-style living in regional Queensland to affordable homes in suburbia – but surpassing its sales and enquiry targets by 100 settlements and 900 enquiries, and achieving the enviable rank of second-most recognisable retirement living brand in Queensland.

  36 villages. 5 geographical regions. 12 months to meet a sales target of 205 settlements.

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