About Kalyra Communities

The James Brown Memorial Trust has been here for 125 years and over that time we have grown and changed.

We now provide a diverse range of quality services focussed on help and care supporting people to enjoy their life at home or in our wonderfully designed accommodation.

At James Brown Memorial Trust we have a fresh new look as Kalyra Communities while staying true to our values and our reputation for being reassuring, engaging and responsive.

With Kalyra, we’ve included the word ‘communities’ because that is the core of who we are.

It’s about our community.

Our community cares and we care for each other so ‘communities’ is a worthy inclusion to represent the diversity of Kalyra which includes people of different generations, social groups and physical abilities through the delivery of accommodation, care and services tailored to the individual.

Here for you.

When asked what we can do for people, it’s simply we are here for you. This means really listening to what people are looking for, not just telling people what they can have.

It may be a home to live in independently with community close at hand, it may be a private room in one of our aged care homes, it may be having services and care home delivered where you are… whatever form it takes, we are here for you.

Here for you with choices in where and how you live.

James and Jessie were married in Mt Barker near where Jessie’s family lived and Kalyra in the Adelaide Hills has been the historic centre of our service history. The Kalyra Belair Aged Care home and Kalyra Heights Retirement Village along with the nearby Bellevue Heights village beautifully reflect our history with a mixture of heritage and modern building designs.

Reflecting our historical diversity, accommodation is also offered through five locations across Adelaide in our James and Jessie Brown Cottages, designed for simple, sustainable low-cost living, enabling people to step out of risk of homelessness, supported by agencies, into a more secure future.

Today the Kalyra influence has spread well beyond the hills and Adelaide, to Woodcroft and McLaren Vale, with accommodation in the form of care homes well-established with their own personalities built around the residents, staff and volunteers and interacting with nearby villages.

We also provide services offering help at home for those in their own home or in independent living of any kind right across the Hills, South, Fleurieu, Murray Bridge and Victor Harbor.

So wherever you are, we are here for you.

Additional information

Current Trustees

Tina (C V) Hudson BA (Psych)

Chair since July 2019
Trustee since May 2006
Director of Harnessing Talent.

Darren C Klenk BA(Ec) Grad Dip (Acc.) Grad Dip (Fin. Pl.).

Deputy Chair since December 2014
Trustee since May 2009
Director of DC and SJ Klenk Investments Pty Ltd trading as DK Accounting and Tax Solutions, Member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Australia, Member of the Taxation Institute of Australia, Registered Tax Agent.

Maria Fedoruk JP, B App Sc (Nsg Ad), MHA, PhD, RN

Trustee since August 2013
Consultant Surveyor Australian Council on Health Care Standards

Geof D Mitchell BA, JP

Chair July 2012 – December 2014
Trustee since 1990
Chair and committee member of various voluntary organisations.

Trustee Vacancies

28 May 2020

James Brown Memorial Trust, known as Kalyra Communities, was established in 1892 by Jessie Brown, in memory of her late husband James, with the aim of providing services for people in need.

Today the Trust has a focus on aged care services in South Australia including residential aged care, community services and independent retirement living. The Trust also has a commitment to the provision of affordable housing enabling people to step out of risk of homelessness and into a more secure future, supported by community agencies.

Trustees with experience in one or more of the following areas are encouraged to apply:

Public relations
Advocacy
Research, particularly in relation to ageing
Information technology, particularly as it relates to the support of the aged and or disadvantaged

Successful applicants will ideally be experienced board members with a sound understanding of corporate governance and a demonstrated ability to make a meaningful contribution to strategic decision-making and corporate oversight in aged care.

Please email your application in confidence to sblunt@kalyra.org.au

For enquiries and a trustee application pack phone (08) 8278 5444

Download the trustee vacancy notice

James Brown Memorial Trust Incorporation Act 1990

Annual Report 2018

Robert Stobbe BB (Acc) FCPA, MAICD

Trustee since February 2012
Director of Utilities Management Pty Ltd, Energy Networks Association and Operation Flinders, President Asthma Foundation SA

Malcolm S Wight BA (Acc), CA, FTIA

Trustee since September 2008
Director of William Buck. Chair, Treasurer and Board Member Glenelg Community Hospital

Anthony Maeder BSC, BSC (Hons), MSc, PhD, GCED

Trustee since October, 2017
Aged Care industry. Information Technology Council Advisor.

Ann-Marie Chamberlain

Trustee since May, 2018
Finance industry. Non-Executive Director Volunteering SA/NT.