Bryan Lipmann is the founder of Wintringham, a not-for-profit welfare company employing over 1,000 people to provide an extensive range of high quality residential, community based and outreach services to elderly homeless men and women. Wintringham is Australia’s largest provider of aged care services to elderly homeless men and women.

An important identifying feature of Wintringham’s work has been its insistence that homeless elderly men and women should have the same right of access to generic aged care services and resources as the rest of the aged community.

Bryan has sat on a number of Ministerial Advisory Committees in Melbourne and in Canberra working on issues effecting homeless elderly people, and has been a Director of a range of Peak Bodies representing aged care, housing and homelessness.

In 2011, Wintringham was awarded the United Nations Habitat Scroll of Honour, the most prestigious human settlements award in the world. In 2012 he was invited by the OECD to join an international panel of experts on Integrated Services and Housing in Paris.

Bryan was awarded an Order of Australia in 1999 and in 2015 was the Melburnian of the Year. He was named as Victorian Senior Australian of the Year in 2026.

He has worked with elderly homeless people for 40 years.