The Annual Report is published in October each year for the prior July to June financial year. It reviews the governance of the organisation, reports operational activities against the business plan and lists its full, audited financial reports.

Read the 2005-2006 report online by following the links below, or download the report. The report is available as a PDF, a DAISY Digital Talking Book with narrated audio and full text, a Microsoft Word file, a large print PDF or as two volumes of formatted braille (.brf).

Annual Report 2005-2006 (.pdf, 2.0 MB)
Annual Report 2005-2006 (DAISY, narrated audio and full text) (.zip, 65.1 MB)
Annual Report 2005-2006 (Word, 777.5 kB)
Annual Report 2005-2006 (large print) (.pdf, 3.0 MB)
Annual Report 2005-2006 (braille, Volume 1) (.brf, 98.3 kB)
Annual Report 2005-2006 (braille, Volume 2) (.brf, 79.0 kB)

Contents

• Joint letter from the Chairman and Chief Executive - inside cover
• Highlights - page 2
• Patron's message - page 6
• Vision and Mission Statement - page 7
• Chairman's overview - page 8
• A Progressive Governance model - page 11
• Organisational chart - page 22
• CEO's report - page 24
• The Foundation at a glance - page 29
• Statements of Service Performance - page 32
• Report of Achievements against the Business Plan - page 36
• Profiles - throughout Report of Achievements (see note below)
• Summarised Financial Statements - page 57
• Financials - page 58
• Eye Conditions - page 75
• Major Donors - page 76
• Directory of Offices - page 78
• Donation form - page 79

Note: In the print version of this report, there are profiles of members, staff and other people associated with the Foundation interspersed with the main text. In this electronic version, the profiles have been moved to a separate section.

The cover of this Annual Report is meant to make a social statement and to inform. The statement is this - "We live in a disabling society that too often overlooks blind, deafblind and vision-impaired people - in fact society frequently treats them as if they were invisible." The posters give key facts about the Foundation like this - just one-third of the cost of providing services comes from Government sources. We have to raise the rest every year. And demand for services keeps growing.

Note: The cover photo shows a guide dog team walking along a street, past a wall of posters advertising the Foundation. The posters contain large bold black headlines on a bright red background. The headlines are:
Baby Boomers Going Blind
Govt Only Funds 1/3 Of Key Services
Huge Pressures on RNZFB - Innovation is Critical
Talking Books To Go Digital - Huge Costs Ahead
The guide dog team is shown twice. In the foreground (on the front cover) a grey shadow of a person walks a guide dog in a harness. Further behind them (on the back cover), a person walks a grey shadow of a guide dog.

Cover photos: Grant Southam, Campbell Photography. "Models" are Maria Williams and her guide dog Lettie.