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ANNUAL REPORT 2022

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The highlights of 2022

HUNDREDS OF MEMBERS TOGETHER IN DUBAI FOR 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE

Commonwealth Heads Of Government Meeting commitment on access to screenings and affordable vision treatments, Especially for children

200 signatures calling for access to eye health for children at the UN’s Transforming Education Summit

Eye Health included in the UN Declaration on Road Safety

Over 10,000 people involved in Focus on Child Eye Health and Focus on Gender Equity

Launched the Over 2,000 people gained Knowledge Hub Knowledge Hub skills and expertise via Advocacy to Action

Policy Dialogues in 20 Countries on Integrated PeopleCentred Eye Care (IPEC)

Over 600 people took our introduction to Integrated people-centred eye care (IPEC) course

6,813,614 pledges to Love Your Eyes for World Sight Day

Over 11,000 pieces of media and over 200 million social media impressions for World Sight Day

20 Parliamentary Screenings

Love Your Eyes Glasses Effect and Stickers Reached 78,500

1 World Sight Day Vision Screening at the United Nations Headquarters in New York

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Contents

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The highlights of 2022 2
Message from Caroline Casey, President 4
Message from Babar Qureshi, Vice President and Board Chair 5
Message from Peter Holland, CEO 6
Our amazing members 7
IAPB - The Voice of Global Eye Health 8
A Year of Exciting Developments in Our Advocacy work 10
Spotlight on: Western Pacifc 11
A great year for our Global Campaign 12
Spotlight on: South-East Asia 13
Ofering opportunities to learn and connect with our knowledge work 14
Spotlight on: Africa 15
Forging relationships with the IAPB Valued Supplier Scheme 16
Spotlight on: Latin America 17
Financial and Administrative Report 18
Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness 23
Financial Statements and Notes 26

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Message from Caroline Casey, President

As we come to the end of my second year as President of IAPB, I look back at all the amazing achievements of our members and I am totally amazed at what a year it has been. Earlier in October, I was lucky enough to be standing at the United Nations Headquarters as we took the Love Your Eyes message to corridors of power the world over, and I realised at this moment what we have achieved in 2022.

For so many of us, the scale of global eye health is clear. We know how many people live with preventable vision loss, without the means to access the treatment they need. We know the key role sight and accessibility plays in people reaching their full potential. We work tirelessly every day to address it. However, it has not always been easy to make everyone else understand and value vision as they do other health and development issues.

Global awareness is vital for engaging the public and we know to achieve our 2030 In Sight Strategy it is key that we take our message out to as many people in the world as possible, heads of government, politicians, decision makers, diplomats and the individuals on the street.

Together this year we have achieved, the biggest World Sight Day ever, commitments at the Commonwealth Heads of Government and inclusion of eye health in the UN Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety. We’ve had targets set for Refractive Error and Cataract and launched our new Knowledge Hub, as a go to place for sector resources.

A personal highlight for me was to meet so many of you as I have travelled around the world, whether it was at our standout 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE event in

Dubai, at the Love Your Eyes Voices event in New York, or at some of our regional meetings. With our world opening up once again, it has been great to meet our members and witness the work they are doing around the world.

The power of collective action should never be underestimated, and it is only when we work together that magical moments such as this happen. Imagine what could happen if we fuel the same focus, energy and excitement to build on these incredible achievements and use them as a catalyst for the system leadership we need and the vision we have.

I am thrilled by the noise and enthusiasm we created this year and am inspired by what is to come – a world where everyone understands that eye health must be accessible, available and affordable to all. The energy I saw in October while at the UN and our Love Your Voices event makes me believe that we can truly achieve a world where no-one experiences unnecessary or preventable sight loss and everyone can realise their full potential. We are well on our way to implementing the goals of our 2030 In Sight Strategy and just need to keep at it.

Thank you all for believing that we could do it and pulling behind IAPB to prove that we can.

Caroline Casey, President

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Message from Babar Qureshi, Vice President and Board Chair

A Year of Progress

A lot of progress has been made this year in our efforts to continue to put eye health on the global agenda, and to look at ways of supporting countries to ensure that effective and inclusive eye services become part of government plans and policies.

The first significant occasion was the 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE event in Dubai at the beginning of March, which provided the first post-pandemic opportunity for us all to see each other face to face. 2030 In Sight focuses on elevating vision as a development issue, integrating eye health into wider health care systems and activating consumer and market opportunities. It provides the structure for all our work going forward.

It has been an important year for the WHO’s programme of work in eye care and vision. With the support of the IAPB, The Guide for Action was launched in Geneva during the 75th World Assembly in May. It provides step-by-step guidance to countries in implementing the recommendations of the World Report on Vision and the World Health Assembly Resolution on integrated peoplecentered eye care (IPEC). The guide includes four tools developed by the WHO to support the analysis, planning, implementation and review of IPEC.

The IAPB and its members have been working alongside the WHO to include two eye health indicators in the Universal Health Coverage framework and ultimately, the inclusion of these indicators in the Sustainable Development Goals. The challenge to establish reliable and comprehensive data to back up the indicators has been one that has engaged many of us this year. The WHO launched a report on progress on the indicators in October. It serves as a useful reference point for monitoring progress towards the 2030 global targets for cataract surgery and refractive error. It also includes additional efforts to help improve

monitoring, and the policies and programmes required for increasing the coverage of eye care interventions.

Lobbying for support for eye health in the form of a UN Special Envoy on Vision has also been one of the drives of our advocacy work. The appointment of a dedicated envoy who would serve as a global champion for vision and support the Secretary General and the WHO in mobilising national action on eye health, will help us to ensure that our ambition that everyone has access to affordable eye health services becomes a reality.

In October, many of us in the sector gathered in New York to celebrate World Sight Day and to call for greater action. The UN Friends of Vision held an eye screening and exhibition at the UN Headquarters, and this provided an opportunity to speak to decision makers about the importance of vision as a cross-cutting development issue.

World Sight Day was bigger and better than ever before with people from remote areas of Tanzania to sports stadiums in America joining in with the Love Your Eyes campaign. Our target of five million screenings reached almost seven million in the end, showing just how many people are taking on board this message and disseminating it. Photographs of people in heart shaped glasses, and videos of people passing on their spectacles took over social media and there were over 200 million impressions on the various platforms.

Next year looks set to build on what has been done this year and with a new business plan and strategy, there is great optimism and will in the sector to continue the endeavour to make sure that everyone who needs eye care gets it.

Babar Qureshi, Vice President and Board Chair

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Message from Peter Holland, CEO

Lots more to do

2022 has been a year of hope and challenges as we began to re-build and tackle the backlogs in care created by the pandemic. One of the joys of the year was being able meet in person for the first time since 2019. It was wonderful that so many people were able to join us in Dubai at 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE, where we introduced our new sector strategy, 2030 In Sight. The event, with the support of our partners Noor Dubai and Seva Foundation brought together IAPB members from around the world both in person, and virtually. It kick-started important conversations about how we must work together to eliminate avoidable sight loss by 2030 and see a world where:

successfully advocated for the inclusion of eye health in the Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety “The 2030 horizon for road safety: securing a decade of action and delivery” reinforcing eye health’s importance as a cross-cutting development issue.

We are now pushing hard to secure the appointment of a UN Secretary General’s Special Envoy on Vision. A Special Envoy would give real impetus to making the case with global institutions and national governments to invest in eye care and keep eye health on the agenda at the highest levels. I’m enormously grateful to the many members who have signed our petition in support of the Special Envoy.

Our public campaigning efforts play an increasingly • Eye care and rehabilitation services are important role in raising the profile of eye health accessible, inclusive, and affordable to everyone, and supporting our advocacy work. This year, World everywhere, whenever they are needed. Sight Day, part of our Love Your Eyes campaign was our biggest yet. Organisations and individuals • People understand the importance of caring pledged their sight tests in the month leading up for their own eye health and demand access to World Sight Day, with over 6.8 million pledges to services, free from the weight of any social being submitted. Members organised nearly 20 stigma. parliamentary screenings worldwide culminating in an event at the United Nations Headquarters in Building on last year’s landmark resolution on vision New York with the UN Friends of Vision. Thank you at the UN General Assembly, we continue to make to everyone who contributed towards the enormous progress in elevating eye health on the global agenda success of this year’s World Sight Day, which is as critical to achieving the Sustainable Development cementing itself as a truly global awareness day.

Building on last year’s landmark resolution on vision at the UN General Assembly, we continue to make progress in elevating eye health on the global agenda as critical to achieving the Sustainable Development Goals. The Commonwealth Heads of Government renewed their commitment to eye health at their meeting in Rwanda in June including finishing the job on trachoma. Along with Commonwealth Education ministers, they also emphasised the importance of child and school eye health. At the UN, we also

We launched the Love Your Eyes campaign actions earlier this year, calling on government and industry leaders to focus on three key areas – accessible eye care; available sight tests; and affordable glasses. As part of the global campaign launch, we highlighted

several programmes and initiatives led by our members in India and Kenya who are leading the way in providing accessible, available and affordable eye care.

Of course, the challenge is to translate these global commitments into regional and national action. We are seeing progress, including a regional action plan for integrated people centered eye care which was published in South East Asia; primary eye care training was integrated into nursing curricula in East, Central and Southern Africa; and 2030 In Sight policy dialogues took place in over 20 countries globally this year, highlighting eye health as a development issue.

We also launched the IAPB knowledge hub which contains resources, tools and guides on specific areas of global eye health and 2030 In Sight. We encourage members to contribute their own knowledge and expertise to this, as well as utilise the resources within it and share within your own networks.

The enormous global challenges that confront us mean that, more than ever, it is critical we work together to achieve our collective mission of ending avoidable sight loss by 2030. I do hope that you can join us at our global event 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE, taking place in Singapore on 25 and 26 June 2023. This will be a great opportunity for us to come together, towards achieving our shared goal.

Thank you for all your support over the past year.

Peter Holland, CEO

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Our amazing members

It was great to see so many of our members at IAPB’s global event 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE. The event provided a valuable opportunity for members from all types of organisations to come together to meet old friends and make new connections, and share knowledge, insight, and experiences. IAPB is already planning for the next 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE event taking place in Singapore in June next year, and we hope to see you there!

Some IAPB colleagues had the privilege of attending EURETINA in Germany as part of Bayer’s Retinal Communities Pavilion in partnership with International Federation on Ageing (IFA) and the Vision Academy to showcase the DR Barometer. This proved a great opportunity to meet with global experts and Key Opinion Leaders over the course of a few days. Members of the IAPB team will be at various events around the world next year, APAO in Singapore; PAAO in Buenos Aires; WCO in Melbourne; AAO in San Francisco, to name a few. If you are planning to come to any of these events, then do let us know!

Towards the beginning of the year, we sent out the annual membership survey to find out what members find of value and how we can improve our services. The feedback we received was overall very positive, and throughout the year we have been increasing our regional and national level activities through the regional planning meetings for 2030 In Sight, learning programmes such as Advocacy to Action, and our World Sight Day activities.

We recently created a new member pack that provides a detailed overview of the different ways members can get more involved and contribute towards our collective mission of 2030 In Sight. Please do get in touch if you want to find out more about getting involved in our activities next year.

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This year we welcomed 17 new members from 13 countries:

Group A – Members

Group C – Members

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Our key pillars of work

OUR pillars of work

ADVOCACY CAMPAIGN Connect INFORM We influence We fight for We lead and We share the and shape policy greater convene events, latest insights, at country, awareness, networking data, news and regional and investment and in a range of knowledge. international action. different forums level. for the sector.

The voice of global eye health

What we do

A public health challenge as large as sight loss, which affects over 1.1 billion of us, requires collective action by governments, private sector, civil society, professionals and the wider public.

Representing a unique and unparalleled global membership from over 100 countries, IAPB is a not-for-profit charity, solely focused on delivering the collective goal to end avoidable sight loss and driving awareness of eye health around the world.

IAPB members range from international charities, eye hospitals and academic institutes through to professional bodies and corporates. On behalf of this diverse and unique mix of organisations, we provide a powerful, unified and trusted voice on an issue that affects every human on the planet.

We work tirelessly to ensure our sector gets the political, health and development priority it needs and deserves.

We work through collective action at the intersection of public health, development and markets.

Join our mission to elevate the issue of eye health, fight to integrate it into wider health systems and help activate demand from the ground up.

We ensure that our members’ voices are heard at the highest levels and fight to unlock political will and financing while also changing perceptions and policy.

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To achieve 2030 In Sight,

we must

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Elevate
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Vision and embed as a fundamental, economic, social and development issue

Integrate Eye health into wider health care systems

Activate

By driving consumer and market change

Which will result in

People understanding the importance of caring for their own eye health and demanding access to services, free from the weight of any social stigma.

Eye care and rehabilitation services being accessible, inclusive, and affordable to everyone, everywhere, whenever they are needed.

No-one experiencing unnecessary or preventable sight loss, and everyone achieving their full potential.

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A Year of Exciting Developments in Our Advocacy work

2022 has seen many exciting developments for global eye health. As a sector, we have come together to advocate for some powerful commitments.

The Vision for the Commonwealth Coalition successfully campaigned for a commitment at the Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting. Building on the 2018 Commonwealth commitment, the 2022 Communique calls on all Commonwealth countries to “take a multi-pronged approach for access to screenings and affordable vision treatments, especially for children”.

The Vision for the Commonwealth’s work formed part of a broader global campaign on child eye health. In July, we took these messages to the United Nation’s Pre-Education Summit held at the UNESCO headquarters in Paris. We had chalkboards filled with blurry text, we put our messages in front of government and UN decision makers, and we garnered over 200 influential signatures for our cause. At the United Nations General Assembly Transforming Education Summit (TES), vision screenings were recognised as “a cost-effective way to detect and correct impairments that may affect children’s ability to learn” and listed as a key recommendation to Member States under Action Track 1 for the TES.

In July, we successfully advocated for the inclusion of eye health in the UN Political Declaration of the High-Level Meeting on Improving Global Road Safety. This was significant as the Declaration recognises vision as a cross-cutting development issue and provides a strong basis for advocating for the inclusion of eye health across all global and national road safety policies.

We strengthened our relationships with UN Agencies – a key outcome of the UN Resolution Vision for Everyone. The International Labour Organization (ILO) are now working on a policy brief on eye health and the world of work. The brief, set to be launched next year, will provide a vital advocacy tool to persuade businesses and trade unions of the importance and benefits of supporting employee eye health.

Finally, we have made great progress in our efforts to secure the appointment of a Special Envoy on Vision to serve as a global advocate on eye health and lead the implementation of the UN Resolution Vision for Everyone. Over 150 CEOs have signed our Letter of Support to the Secretary General – proving what a force we can be when we come together. Please join this important campaign if you haven’t already!

2022 was also a big year for the WHO’s programme of work with the launch of their much-anticipated Guide for Action, hosted by IAPB at the World Health Assembly in May, and the release of their Global Status Report, Myopia Ed Toolkit and the joint IAPB Tobacco Knowledge Summary.

The World Health Organization’s technical tools provide the foundation for the advancement of eye care at the regional and national level. We have seen some great examples of this already with the WHO Western Pacific and IAPB Regional Meeting in Singapore, the release of the WHO SEARO Regional Action Plan for IPEC implementation and 19 national policy dialogues across the world. But more work is needed to translate the global commitments made into national political will and action.

2023 is set to be a challenging year with world leaders facing a deepening economic crisis; a war in Ukraine and the multiplication of conflicts across the globe; worsening climate impacts; continuing Covid-19 recovery and growing inequities. The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are at the heart of these challenges and the United Nation’s SDG Summit, marking the halfway point of the SDGs, must provide the roadmap for solutions. It is vital that improving the world’s eye health is one of those solutions.

Our sector’s most recent achievements have been the result of collective advocacy efforts. We should feel very proud of the progress that has been made.

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Spotlight on: Western Pacific

2022 has been the year of re-connection. In the Western Pacific we’ve loved seeing so many of our members again after the long covid-pause and been inspired by the re-invigoration of eye care activities across the region. It’s been terrific to see the region embrace the new sector strategy as we emerge – finally – into the new decade.

Throughout the year 2030 In Sight embed activities have taken place with a focus on ensuring that the fundamental links between the strategy, the World Report on Vision, the World Health Assembly and United Nations General Assembly resolutions are well-understood. The Policy Dialogue process is central to systems change in the sector and work has been undertaken to ensure that these are seen as part of ongoing processes. 2030 In Sight Policy Dialogues, delivered in cooperation with members, have taken place in:

We have continued raising awareness with regional members, stakeholders and governments by undertaking 2030 In Sight presentations and workshops:

The relationship with WHO WPRO has continued to strengthen with a joint IAPB/WHO regional meeting held in Singapore at the beginning of November. This meeting focused on the role that IAPB members play supporting National Governments by delivering the 2030 In Sight Strategy and by expanding the eye health conversation and highlighted the WHO suite of tools for IPEC Implementation. Additionally, IAPB and WHO have partnered on the activities in Cambodia and New Zealand and developed joint proposals in Papua New Guinea. IAPB advocacy has resulted in the first WHO eye health and Non-Communicable Diseases assessment in the Marshall Islands to be undertaken in December.

Finally, the year culminated in World Sight Day. Over 1.5 million sight tests were pledged from the Western Pacific region, demonstrating the engagement of members and stakeholders in the region. Eye Health Aotearoa led with Parliamentary tests in New Zealand, Vision 2020 Australia at the NSW Parliament and in Malaysia the Director General of Health pledged 216,000 tests – the only pledge from a Ministry worldwide. In China, Shanghai Eye Disease Prevention and Treatment Centre pledged a worldleading 865,000 tests. All-in-all an inspiring result from the Western Pacific Region!

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A great year for our Global Campaign

Thanks to the power of collective action the Love Your Eyes Campaign is growing with World Sight Day 2022 bigger and louder than ever before!

The Love Your Eyes campaign, in its second year, inspired our World Sight Day Global Partners, IAPB Members, decision makers, celebrities, the eye health sector and beyond, and the public to add their voices to call for attention to eye health around the world.

To kick off the campaign, we set a target of five million pledges to #LoveYourEyes. We smashed our target, with almost seven million pledges made. We thank the dozens of organisations and thousands of individuals who added their pledges to the list.

We asked our networks to take eye health to the corridors of power screenings the vision of the world’s leaders and decision-makers. This effort was to have them recognise the importance of eye care that is available, accessible and affordable for everyone. Dozens of screenings from the UN Headquarters in NY to the halls of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly in Mumbai demonstrated the importance and power of eye health.

Other highlights included; the Love Your Eyes glasses taking over social media by showing up on faces from the remotest regions of Tanzania to sports stadiums in America, IAPB campaigner of the year, Lowri Moore generating a global swell of support for her #GlassesOn campaign that directly addresses the stigma of wearing glasses, some very special recognition for the cause from King Charles III and IAPB Global Ambassador, The Countess of Wessex and our World Sight Day Global Partners encouraging the world to pass the glasses.

Our World Sight Day report summarises this year’s amazing successes and gives a snapshot of how we cut through and resonated with audiences globally, with over 11,000 pieces of media coverage, reaching over 150 million people and social media lighting up with over 200 million impressions.

We invite you to read the report. We encourage you to share it with your networks and staff so that everyone can be proud of what we collectively achieved.

None of this year’s success would have been possible without the support of our World Sight Day Global Partners, Abbvie, Bayer, CBM, Horizon, National Vision, Novartis, Roche, Sightsavers, Seva Foundation and OneSight Essilor Luxottica Foundation.

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Spotlight on: South-East Asia

2022, a year where we had the pleasure of once again convening as a group, putting our heads together on how we achieve the goals we have set ourselves – embedding the 2030 In Sight Strategy, achieving the new WHO global indicators and making the UN Resolution on Vision a reality.

Here are the top highlights of the year:

Initiation of IAPB Sectoral Strategy 2030 In Sight and Integrated People centred eye care (IPEC) Implementation

Regional Meeting

A high-level advocacy and planning meeting having representation from prominent eye health leaders, IAPB members, other organizations, and institutes, including World Health Organization and government ministries from the South-East Asia Region, was organized at the L V Prasad Eye Institute’s Banjara Hills campus in Hyderabad from 21-22nd July. Hosted by the L V Prasad Eye Institute (LVPEI) in collaboration with the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) – South-East Asia (SEA) , the regional meeting was called – 2030-IN SIGHT – Implementing Integrated People-centred Eye Care in SouthEast Asia. The meeting was attended by 71 in person and 32 virtual participants.

One of the core focus areas of the meeting was to discuss and deliberate on how eye health can be promoted as a development issue, implementation of the IAPB sectoral strategy 2030 Insight and embedding it in the Sustainable Development Goals agenda. There were focused discussions on how Integrated People-centred Eye Care (IPEC ) services can be implemented and awareness and demand for eye health services can be increased. The meeting concluded with recommendations and suggestive action points for effective integration of eye health into mainstream health system along with development goals and a road map to achieve the targets set for 2030.

WHO Regional Action Plan on IPEC implementation

IAPB along with LVPEI the WHO Collaborating Centre for Eye Health, supported WHO SEARO to develop Regional Action Plan for IPEC implementation in the region. The Plan is ready for publication and will be launched in High level WHO meeting soon.

The Plan has set Strategic Objectives for the Region

Support to evidence generation and publication in WHO eye health indicators

IAPB SEA along with members working the region have supported many countries to carry out RAAB and RESC survey in the past. We were directly involved in funding and provided technical support to carry out RAABs in Nepal, Bhutan, Maldives and Timor-Leste. The results of these have become crucial for the baseline information of WHO eye health UHC indicators for the countries.

IAPB SEA also supported ICEH, London and WHO Geneva for its publication in The Lancet Global Health journal. IAPB SEA Regional Coordinator Yuddha Sapkota and Regional Chair Dr Rohit Khanna also contributed in these publications.

New Eye Health Strategy in Nepal

Ministry of Health Nepal has formulated a new eye health strategy which includes objectives and actions of IAPB sectoral strategy, 2030 In Sight. Nepal also included eCSC indicator in Health Sector Plan of 2023 – 2030.

World Sight Day Celebration

World Sight Day Celebration again gained new heights in the region with awareness being raised on Love Your Eyes. All members working in the region including WHO SEARO and MoH of the region celebrated the day as eye health awareness campaign. The activities included – Walkathon with love your eyes glasses and banner, Message of Health Ministers, Webinars, Eye Screening, Interaction programme, panel discussion with experts in TV, several radio and TV spots broadcasting with celebrities and campaigns on social media.

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Offering opportunities to learn and connect with our knowledge work

2022 has been a busy, action packed year in knowledge across IAPB. We were fortunate to offer multiple opportunities to connect, share expertise & experiences and learn together. A few of such key moments are the newly launched Knowledge Hub, Introduction to IPEC course, Advocacy to Action workshops, Focus On webinars, 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE, Dubai and determining the success framework for 2030 In Sight. The Knowledge team delivered several key pieces of work this year that will enable us as a sector to prove our case, learn together, innovate, and improve accountability.

Introduction to IPEC learning modules: The free Introduction to IPEC course launched in January 2022 and saw continued enrolments throughout 2022. Over 550 people from over 100 countries have signed up for the course so far. The course is a collaboration between the Fred Hollows Foundation and IAPB and includes four self-paced interactive modules.

Advocacy to Action: Reaching over 500 people, the 2022 programme included 3 regional events specially designed to help advocates build knowledge on elevating eye health among policy and decision makers. The events covered, Latin America (Hybrid, delivered in Spanish), Africa (Virtual) and Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Virtual). The programme also produced a suite of resources including the IPEC Advocacy to Action toolkit to guide policy dialogues, regional snapshots on eye health, and has a curated list of other resources such as the Guide for action toolkit from WHO, templates for presentations, policy briefs etc.

Focus On: We delivered 3 webinars with over 300 registrations and curated more than 20 knowledge hub pieces on two themes – Child Eye Health and Gender Equity. The Gender Equity and Child Eye Health work groups contributed leadership and expertise to the Focus On programme this year. They were sponsored by Santen and CooperVision respectively.

Technology for Access Framework: IAPB and the Technology Taskforce developed a Technology for Access framework that aims to help people better understand and critically analyse technology. The framework, which will launch in early 2023, aims to get eyecare provider organizations and governments comfortable in engaging with and adopting technologies for eye health at the primary and community level.

Knowledge Hub: In August, we launched the Knowledge Hub, to support 2030 In Sight strategy by presenting content organized by twelve critical thematic areas for global eye health. Our aim is to make valuable expertise, information, and experience from across the sector and the IAPB network easy to find, share and use. The Knowledge Hub compliments the data and evidence featured on the Vision Atlas.

Success Framework for 2030 In Sight : The Success Framework defines core measurement domains, as well as a cohort of global, national, and sectoral indicators that can be used to track progress of 2030 in Sight. This framework will be finalized by the end of the year and the framework will be embedded into the Vision Atlas in 2023.

Knowledge at IAPB can only make a real impact if we all work together. A big highlight of the year is all the amazing people and organisations we get to meet, exchange knowledge, and collaborate with. Thank you to everyone involved in the 2030 In Sight Reference Committee Technology for Access taskforce, the work groups and their chairs, all speakers, panellists, and participants of the learning programmes. Thank you to VLEG, ICEH and all contributors of data to the Vision Atlas, authors of Knowledge Hub content and of course to the sponsors of the learning programmes and the Vision Atlas.

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Spotlight on: Africa

2022 was a year where we as a sector were able to move beyond the screens of Zoom and convene in person to discuss plans on how to implement the two new indicators adopted by the WHO in 2021 and embed the 2030 In Sight Strategy in our work. We were delighted to be at 2030 IN SIGHT LIVE at Dubai in March and see how all of us are raring to go to achieve our goals.

Here are the top three highlights:

Elevate

West Africa Health Organization: Regional reporting against Eye Health Indicators

At a meeting of National Health Information Officers in the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) it was agreed to integrate eye health indicators into their regional level reporting. The 15 members states of the ECOWAS region will subsequently be required to report against specific eye health indicators at the national level in order to meet the regional reporting requirements.

Integrate

Strengthening Primary Eye Care

IAPB signed a partnership agreement with the East, Central and Southern Africa College of Nurses (ECSACON) around the strengthening of Primary Eye Care in ECSACON member states. As an executing arm of the ECSA Health Community, ECSACON is charged with the responsibility of promoting and strengthening professional excellence in nursing and midwifery in the ECSA region. ECSACON has agreed to integrate Primary Eye Care training, based on the WHO AFRO Primary Eye Care Training Manual, into their pre-service and in-service nursing curricula. ECSACON will target their 2,000 members across 16 member states with this training.

Activate

Sub-Regional 2030 In Sight Workshop

In July, IAPB held a sub-regional workshop focussing on the East and Southern Africa region in Nairobi, Kenya. The meeting brought together 45 participants with representation from World Health Organization AFRO, IAPB member agencies, IAPB Partners and National Ministries of Health from within subregion.

The workshop equipped stakeholders in the sub-region with the knowledge and technical resources to deliver the 2030 In Sight Strategy and develop national level implementation plans.

Throughout the programme, participants unpacked the three pillars of the 2030 In Sight Strategy: Elevate, Integrate and Activate. They were exposed to the various mechanisms and resources available to implement each and then they workshopped national level implementation plans for each pillar.

The outcome of the meeting was to have country plans around the implementation of each respective 2030 In Sight strategic pillar. These plans are held by the Ministry of Health representatives and supported by the members. Stakeholders also committed to those activities which they had the capacity to undertake in the pursuit of the implementation of 2030 In Sight.

It is difficult to condense the entire year into these top three as it would be remiss of us not to mention our new partnership with Novartis, our successful Love Your Eyes campaign with an activation being launched in Kenya, trachoma elimination in Malawi, CHOGM in Rwanda, our Africa-centric Advocacy to Action event and so much more.

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Forging relationships with the IAPB Valued Supplier Scheme

2022 was a year of re-connecting, giving some of us the chance to see each other in-person, it was also a year of growth all thanks to our suppliers. The relationships we have forged with our suppliers and members over the years are the foundation of the Valued Supplier Scheme’s (VSS) success.

Our VSS website has seen a thirty percent uptick in traffic from the previous year. We have gained more new users in a short span of time wanting to purchase the products listed on the scheme.

We have added six new valued suppliers, who joined the current ones, bringing the total to thirty-eight Suppliers with a wide range of products that includes retinal products, low vision aids & devices and much more.

In-person meetings

We had the chance to interact with potential suppliers, as well as users of the scheme, while attending the All-India ophthalmic Conference held in Mumbai. We were delighted to have a booth at the IAPB Southeast Asia regional meeting, which was held in Hyderabad, promoting the benefits VSS provides to its members. We’ve had interest from several potential suppliers, but more on that in the new year.

Every year is unique, and this year our focus was on strengthening our relationships with our members and understanding their needs.

IAPB VSS continues to support IAPB’s membership to procure high quality products at an affordable cost.

We also receive inquiries from small hospitals wanting to acquire quality equipment. The scheme truly does what its aim to do – to assist buyers, particularly those from low- and middle-income countries make informed procurement decisions from our IAPB Valued Suppliers. An example is CBM, Zambia, who has provided VSS with a letter of thanks for helping with their purchase of low vision products at an affordable cost.

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Spotlight on: Latin America

What a year! A new Regional Coordinator to work closely with our Regional Chair, a new strategy and a host of new friends from Mexico to Argentina.

The focus in Latin America has been on building the IAPB network and ensuring that our members and stakeholders are well informed of current global advocacy efforts and understand their role in the implementation of 2030 In Sight. Highlight activities included:

We have worked to create awareness with regional governments of their political commitments at the World Health Assembly and UN and the ways in which the members and IAPB can support them:

During 2022, there has been progress regarding alignment with PAHO on implementation of the WHO program of work on IPEC and support for 2030 In Sight in the LAT Region. PAHO participated in the public health colloquium developed in Bogotá in March 2022 and in the regional meeting in Mexico in June. Furthermore, PAHO supported the first 2030 In Sight Policy Dialogue, held in Paraguay in March.

The March meeting in Paraguay demonstrated to members how to actively engage in 2030 In Sight activities. We are grateful to the host organization, Fundacion Vision and to our hosts in Mexico City, APEC. These organizations demonstrate that members are engaged with and are utilizing the 2030 In Sight Strategy for advocacy and to guide their work with Ministries.

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Financial and Administrative Report

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International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (the ‘Charity’) is a company limited by guarantee (registered in England and Wales under number 4620869) and a charity (registered in England and Wales under number 1100559). The Memorandum and Articles of Association incorporated in December 2002 and amended in September 2007, set out the objects and powers of the organisation. The Charity is governed by a Board of Trustees which has legal, financial, and managerial responsibility for the charity. The trustees constitute directors of the charitable company for the purposes of the Companies Act 2006 and trustees of the charity for the purposes of the Charities Act 2011.

STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BENEFIT

IAPB exists for global public benefit; it leads a global alliance of organisations seeking excellence and equity in the provision of eye health services with a view to reducing the number of people globally that experience visual impairment.

The Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity’ (PB2) and are confident that the charity’s intent and its performance clearly demonstrate that IAPB provides a global public benefit.

VISION

The vision of the organisation is to have a world in which no one is needlessly blind and where those with unavoidable vision loss can achieve their full potential. This will be achieved by mobilizing the will and passion for action of its members through advocacy and through the mobilisation of resources.

2030 IN SIGHT: ENDING AVOIDABLE SIGHT LOSS

We have an urgent window over the next years to end avoidable sight loss. We want to work with global leaders and governments to give a voice to the 1 billion people in our communities living with sight loss, most of them in low- and middle-income countries, so that no-one is left behind.

We want governments across the world to unlock funding and remove barriers so that together we can provide everyone, everywhere with affordable eye testing, care and glasses.

To be available to everyone, eye health must become part of everyday health care, being delivered by a larger, broader eye health workforce using the latest technology.

Addressing the inequity in access to eye care is at the heart of the 2030 In Sight strategy that we are committed to achieving as the voice of eye health.

The IAPB is made up of organizations committed to campaigning to make eye care more affordable and available, as well as directly delivering programmes design to ensure that no-one is left behind.

This includes building a global evidence base and practical tools and approaches, designing and producing low-cost technology, developing local capacity and providing services in remote and hard to reach areas, such as among rural communities of indigenous Australians.

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OBJECTIVES – WHAT DO WE WANT TO ACHIEVE?

The challenge is more complex than ever before, the numbers are greater and the inequalities are only increasing. Therefore, our ambition has to match this scale.

By 2030, we want to see a world where:

THE HURDLES – WHAT DO WE NEED TO OVERCOME?

UNDERSTANDING & AWARENESS

There remains a lack of understanding of the related health, social and economic benefits of comprehensive vision services. And there continues to be social stigma around sight loss, which is acutely felt in some parts of society around the world.

COMMITMENT & FINANCE

There is a significant funding gap to support access to eye health services, primarily within the national health care systems, but also in wider settings including education, industry and businesses.

SYSTEMS & PEOPLE

There is too often a total lack of coordination and integration with eye health services resulting in a lack of financing, services, personnel and coordinated systems and data.

REGULATIONS & MARKETS

Regulatory frameworks can exacerbate the lack of resource by creating barriers to the number and breadth of people who can provide eye health services. This is further exacerbated by other policy and regulatory frameworks that hamper equitable and fair access.

STATEMENT OF PUBLIC BENEFIT

IAPB exists for global public benefit; it leads a global alliance of organisations seeking excellence and equity in the provision of eye health services with a view to reducing the number of people globally that experience visual impairment.

The Trustees have considered the Charity Commission’s guidance on public benefit, including the guidance ‘public benefit: running a charity’ (PB2) and are confident that the charity’s intent and its performance clearly demonstrate that IAPB provides a global public benefit

STATEMENT ON FUNDRAISING

PRACTICES

IAPB does not carry out any direct fundraising with the general public. We are registered with the fundraising preference service, and committed to meeting the Code of Fundraising Practice .

FINANCIAL REVIEW

INCOME AND EXPENDITURE

IAPB generates its income from membership fees, sponsorship and grants. Year on year income has increased by £690,834, £2,981,197 in 2022 against £2,290,363 in 2021. The increase is attributed to:

Both unrestricted and restricted income increased, unrestricted from £1,935,279 in 2021 to £2,299,814 in 2022 and restricted from £335,084 in 2021 to £681,383 in 2022.

The increase in income has seen a comparable increase in expenditure of £698,075, £2,952,377 in 2022 against £2,254,302 in 2021. The increase can be attributed pushing forward with the 2030 In Sight

strategy and following the coronavirus pandemic, the:

FUNDS POSITION

Overall reserves have increased year on year, £959,077 as at 31st December 2022 against £930,257 at the start of the year and reflects an increase in restricted funds offsetting a decrease in unrestricted funds

An unrestricted deficit of £30,533 has been recorded for the year and compares to an unrestricted deficit last year of £42,837. The resulting unrestricted reserve stands at £782,007 (2021, £812,540)

Restricted reserves represent unspent Coalition of Clear Vision increasing by £117,717 in the year to give a restricted reserve balance of £177,070.

RESERVES POLICY

The Board of Trustees continues to maintain a level of reserves sufficient to protect the continuity of the charity‘s work. The level held is calculated by estimating the extent to which existing commitments and replacement costs of assets are not underwritten by secure future income. In addition, the reserves also include a small sum to cover unforeseen events and expansion opportunities. Reserves are held as

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unrestricted funds, in the form of current assets. The Board intends to maintain sufficient reserves at all times to enable its legal commitments to be met in the unlikely event of the charity being wound up.

In the event that reserves exceed the level intended the Board has taken steps to ensure that these funds are expended in furtherance of the charity’s objects, within a reasonable timeframe. In the event the reserves fall below the level intended, the Board will seek to replenish them, again within a reasonable timeframe.

The level and form of reserves held is reported at each Board meeting. Compliance with the Reserves Policy is monitored periodically by the Audit Committee as part of its overview of the charity’s management of risk.

As at 31st December 2022, unrestricted reserves stood at £782,007 (2021: £812,540) and is within range of the reserve target of £798,000

STATEMENT OF GOING CONCERN

Following the Coronavirus crisis, the Trustees have extended its assessment of going concern reviewing its financial position to December 2024. In obtaining all available information at its disposal, the Trustees have assessed the organisation to be a going concern.

GLOBAL AMBASSADORS

HRH THE COUNTESS OF WESSEX GCVO

HRH Prince Abdulaziz Ahmad Abdulaziz Al Saud

James Chen

H.E. Ambassador Walton Webson (From March 2022)

EXECUTIVE STAFF

During 2022, day to day management of the charity was delegated by the Trustees to the following senior executives:

Peter Holland: Chief Executive Officer

Joanna Conlon: Development and Communications Director

Neil Hedgecock: Finance and Resources Director

Jessica Thompson: Director of Policy, Advocacy and Strategy

Jude Stern: Head of Knowledge Management Nick Parker: Head of Commercial Development

Simon Darvill: Head of Communications

REGISTERED OFFICE – IAPB

The Northern Shell Building 4th Floor, 10 Lower Thames Street,

London, EC3R 6AF, United Kingdom

AUDITORS – CROWE U.K. LLP

Black Country House, Rounds Green Road, Oldbury, West Midlands B69 2DG, UK

BANKERS – HSBC

PO Box LB633, 39 Tottenham Court Road, London, W1T 2AR, UK

RISK POLICY

The approach approved by the Board in managing risk involves maintaining a risk register identifying and assesses the main risks faced by the charity. The possible impact of each risk is assessed in terms of its significance, likelihood of occurrence, and the extent mitigation strategies are in place. The Audit Committee has the responsibility for overseeing the policy on behalf of the Trustees and along with the Board receives an updated risk profiles from the executive twice a year.

The Trustees approved the risk register at the Board meeting in April 2023. The three principal risks and their principal mitigating actions identified as being:

Mitigating strategies include: Developing an accelerated and base case business and financial plan, the development of income plans and targets, the continual review of these plans, the prioritisation of work plans with the aim of balancing these to the resources available. In doing so focus on training and well being of staff.

Mitigating strategies include: Providing high quality strategic direction and information upon which good decisions can be made by the Board in timely manner. The induction of Trustees. Promoting diversity and inclusion within the Board.

inflation, pandemic currency markets etc. impacting IAPB’s ability to deliver value to its membership leading to a loss of engagement undermining IAPB’s authority.

Mitigating strategies include: Enhanced communication through campaigns working with and participation of IAPB members. Actively pursuing greater input from members. Actively outreaching to members to engage and participate in external communication, as well as amplifying members communications..

REMUNERATION POLICY

IAPB has a reward policy setting out how staff remuneration is determined. The executive committee review the reward policy annually and agree all increases in pay and benefits. Salary levels are set based on an assessment of job descriptions and person specifications by IAPB’s HR consultant followed by a benchmarking process that assesses pay norms associated with that type of post in the NGO sector of the local marketplace.

Salary levels are set within an agreed salary band for the respective post. The salary band will be –15% to +5% of the ‘upper quartile’ level determined by benchmark data. The upper quartile is our chosen reference point as our organisational size prevents us from offering the career development, flexibility and additional employee benefits available in some larger agencies. Accordingly a level of pay above that of the median will sometimes be required to attract and retain candidates of the necessary calibre

Nominated by (where applicable)

Date appointed or resigned

Name

(where not in post for the full period)

THE TRUSTEES

The Trustees, who are also Directors under company law, who served during the year and up to the date of this report, and the IAPB Member organisation they are nominated by, are shown.

When a Trustee vacancy becomes available for a seat on IAPB Board, all council members are notified via email that an election will take place. All council members are invited to be nominated via an online form. All council members are then invited to vote for one candidate per seat via our electronic platform. When voting closes the person with the most amount of votes is elected as Trustee.

On appointment as a Trustee, the Trustee is sent an induction pack containing links to all the essential documents including strategy, terms of reference and minutes of the Board and Committees meetings. This is followed up with an induction call with the IAPB CEO. All Trustees are required to complete a Consent form and Declaration of Interest form.

The Audit Committee have reviewed The Charity Governance Code and applied the appropriate standards of recommended practice.

Officers

Caroline Casey President Muhammad Babar Qureshi Vice President Debra Davis Treasurer Appointed Trustees (Founding + Category “A” Members) Neeru Gupta International Council of Ophthalmology Martine Abel-Williamson World Blind Union Rainer Brockhaus CBM Jess Blijikers Light for the World Caroline Harper Sightsavers International Jennifer Gersbeck The Fred Hollows Foundation Scott Mundle World Council of Optometry Haidong Zou Shanghai Eye Disease Centre Kevin Hassey 20/20 Quest Elected Trustees Kashinath Bhoosnurmath Operation Eyesight Job C. Heintz Himalayan Cataract Project Resigned - Oct 2022 Nick Kourgialis Helen Keller International Katherine Overbey OneSight Elizabeth Kurian Mission for Vision Fatima Kyari International Centre for Eye Health Wei He He Eye Specialist Hospital Derek Hodkey Orbis Regional Chairs / Individuals Aaron Magava Regional Chair, Africa Abdulaziz Ibrahim AlRajhi Regional Chair, Eastern Mediterranean Wolfgang Gindorfer Regional Chair, Europe Francisco Martinez Castro Regional Chair, Latin America Suzanne Gilbert Regional Chair, North America Rohit Khanna Regional Chair, South East Asia Amanda Davis Regional Chair, Western Pacific Marcus Ang Individual

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STATEMENT OF RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE TRUSTEES

The Trustees (who are also directors of IAPB for the purposes of company law) are responsible for preparing the Trustees’ Report and the financial statements in accordance with applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

Company law requires the Trustees to prepare financial statements for each financial year which give a true and fair view of the state of affairs of the charitable company and of the incoming resources and application of resources, including the income and expenditure, of the charitable group for that period. In preparing these financial statements, the Trustees are required to:

STATEMENT AS TO THE DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO AUDITORS

Each of the members of the Board who were in office on the date of approval of these financial statements have confirmed, as far as they are each aware:

The Trustees report was approved by the Trustees in their capacity as Company Directors on 26th April 2023 and signed on their behalf by

Muhammad Babar Qureshi

The Trustees are responsible for keeping proper accounting records that disclose with reasonable accuracy at any time the financial position of the charitable company and enable them to ensure that the financial statements comply with the Companies Act 2006. They are also responsible for safeguarding the assets of the charitable company and hence for taking reasonable steps for the prevention and detection of fraud and other irregularities.

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Independent Auditor’s Report to the Members of International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness

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OPINION

We have audited the financial statements of International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (‘the charitable company’) and its subsidiary (‘the group’) for the year ended 31 December 2022 which comprises the Consolidated Statement of Financial Activities, the Consolidated and Charity Balance Sheets, the Consolidated Statement of Cash Flow and notes to the financial statements, including significant accounting policies. The financial reporting framework that has been applied in their preparation is applicable law and United Kingdom Accounting Standards, including Financial Reporting Standard 102 The Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland (United Kingdom Generally Accepted Accounting Practice).

In our opinion the financial statements:

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BASIS FOR OPINION

We conducted our audit in accordance with International Standards on Auditing (UK) (ISAs (UK)) and applicable law. Our responsibilities under those standards are further described in the Auditor’s responsibilities for the audit of the financial statements section of our report. We are independent of the group in accordance with the ethical requirements that are relevant to our audit of the financial statements in the UK, including the FRC’s Ethical Standard, and we have fulfilled our other ethical responsibilities in accordance with these requirements. We believe that the audit evidence we have obtained is sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

CONCLUSIONS RELATING TO GOING CONCERN

In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees’ use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate.

Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charitable company’s or the group’s ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the financial statements are authorised for issue.

Our responsibilities and the responsibilities of the trustees with respect to going concern are described in the relevant sections of this report.

OTHER INFORMATION

The trustees are responsible for the other information contained within the annual report. The other information comprises the information included in the annual report, other than the financial statements and our auditor’s report thereon. Our opinion on the financial statements does not cover the other information and, except to the extent otherwise explicitly stated in our report, we do not express any form of assurance conclusion thereon.

Our responsibility is to read the other information and, in doing so, consider whether the other information is materially inconsistent with the financial statements or our knowledge obtained in the audit or otherwise appears to be materially misstated. If we identify such material inconsistencies or apparent material misstatements, we are required to determine whether this gives rise to a material misstatement in the financial statements themselves. If, based on the work we have performed, we conclude that there is a material misstatement of this other information, we are required to report that fact.

We have nothing to report in this regard.

OPINIONS ON OTHER MATTERS

PRESCRIBED BY THE COMPANIES ACT 2006

In our opinion based on the work undertaken in the course of our audit

prepared for the purposes of company law, for the financial year for which the financial statements are prepared is consistent with the financial statements; and

In light of the knowledge and understanding of the group and charitable company and their environment obtained in the course of the audit, we have not identified material misstatements in the directors’ report included within the trustees’ report.

We have nothing to report in respect of the following matters in relation to which the Companies Act 2006 requires us to report to you if, in our opinion:

the trustees’ directors’ report and from the requirement to prepare a strategic report.

RESPONSIBILITIES OF TRUSTEES

As explained more fully in the trustees’ responsibilities statement, the trustees (who are also the directors of the charitable company for the purposes of company law) are responsible for the preparation of the financial statements and for being satisfied that they give a true and fair view, and for such internal control as the trustees determine is necessary to enable the preparation of financial statements that are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error.

In preparing the financial statements, the trustees are responsible for assessing the charitable company’s ability to continue as a going concern, disclosing, as applicable, matters related to going concern and using the going concern basis of accounting unless the trustees either intend to liquidate the charitable company or to cease operations, or have no realistic alternative but to do so.

AUDITOR’S RESPONSIBILITIES FOR THE AUDIT OF THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

Our objectives are to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements as a whole are free from material misstatement, whether due to fraud or error, and to issue an auditor’s report that includes our opinion. Reasonable assurance is a high level of assurance, but is not a guarantee that

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an audit conducted in accordance with ISAs (UK) will always detect a material misstatement when it exists. Misstatements can arise from fraud or error and are considered material if, individually or in the aggregate, they could reasonably be expected to influence the economic decisions of users taken on the basis of these financial statements.

Details of the extent to which the audit was considered capable of detecting irregularities, including fraud and non-compliance with laws and regulations are set out below.

A further description of our responsibilities for the audit of the financial state- ments is located on the Financial Reporting Council’s website at: www.frc.org. uk/ auditorsresponsibilities. This description forms part of our auditor’s report.

EXTENT TO WHICH THE AUDIT

WAS CONSIDERED CAPABLE OF DETECTING IRREGULARITIES, INCLUDING FRAUD

Irregularities, including fraud, are instances of noncompliance with laws and regulations. We identified and assessed the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements from irregularities, whether due to fraud or error, and discussed these between our audit team members. We then designed and performed audit procedures responsive to those risks, including obtaining audit evidence sufficient and appropriate to provide a basis for our opinion.

We obtained an understanding of the legal and regulatory frameworks within which the charitable company and group operates, focusing on those laws and regulations that have a direct effect on the determination of material amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. The laws and regulations we considered in this context were the Companies Act 2006, the Charities Act 2011, together with the Charities SORP (FRS 102). We assessed the required compliance with these laws and regulations as part of our audit procedures on the related financial statement items.

In addition, we considered provisions of other laws and regulations that do not have a direct effect on the financial statements but compliance with which might be fundamental to the charitable company’s and the group’s ability to operate or to avoid a material penalty. We also considered the opportunities and incentives that may exist within the charitable company and the group for fraud. The laws and regulations we considered in this context for the UK operations were General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), health and safety legislation, taxation legislation and employment legislation. We also considered compliance with local legislation for the group’s overseas operating segments.

Auditing standards limit the required audit procedures to identify non-compliance with these laws and regulations to enquiry of the Trustees and other management and inspection of regulatory and legal correspondence, if any.

We identified the greatest risk of material impact on the financial statements from irregularities, including fraud, to be within the timing of recognition of grant income, and the override of controls by management. Our audit procedures to respond to

these risks included enquiries of management and the Audit Committee about their own identification and assessment of the risks of irregularities, sample testing on the posting of journals, designing audit procedures over grant income, reviewing accounting estimates for biases, reviewing regulatory correspondence with the Charity Commission, and reading minutes of meetings of those charged with governance.

Owing to the inherent limitations of an audit, there is an unavoidable risk that we may not have detected some material misstatements in the financial statements, even though we have properly planned and performed our audit in accordance with auditing standards. For example, the further removed noncompliance with laws and regulations (irregularities) is from the events and transactions reflected in the financial statements, the less likely the inherently limited procedures required by auditing standards would identify it. In addition, as with any audit, there remained a higher risk of non-detection of irregularities, as these may involve collusion, forgery, intentional omissions, misrepresentations, or the override of internal controls. We are not responsible for preventing non-compliance and cannot be expected to detect non- compliance with all laws and regulations.

USE OF OUR REPORT

This report is made solely to the charitable company’s members, as a body, in accordance with Chapter 3 of Part 16 of the Companies Act 2006,. Our audit work has been undertaken so that we might state to the charitable company’s members those matters we are required to state to them in an auditor’s report and for no other purpose. To the fullest extent permitted by law, we do not accept or assume responsibility to anyone other than the charitable company and the charitable company’s members as a body, for our audit work, for this report, or for the opinions we have formed.

Kerry Brown

Senior Statutory Auditor

For and on behalf of Crowe U.K. LLP Statutory Auditor

Black Country House Rounds Green Road Oldbury West Midlands

B69 2DG

Date: 17 May 2023

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Financial Statements For the year ended 31 December 2022

CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL ACTIVITIES (including the income and expenditure account)

Notes 2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Total Unrestricted Restricted Total
Income from:
Charitable activities
Membership 1,415,239 - 1,415,239 1,253,957 - 1,253,957
Grants 2 294,878 311,265 606,143 350,577 191,565 542,142
Other income 3 585,718 370,118 955,836 329,599 163,519 493,118
Investment income 3,979 - 3,979 1,146 - 1,146
Total 2,299,814 681,383 2,981,197 1,935,279 355,084 2,290,363
Expenditure on:
Raising funds
Income development including trading costs 197,460 - 197,460 179,686 – 179,686
Charitable activities
Global Advocacy 655,327 350,980 1,006,307 454,997 191,565 646,562
Comminicating and Connecting Knowledge 624,783 - 624,783 536,543 – 536,543
Strengthening the Network 852,777 271,050 1,123,827 806,890 84,621 891,511
Total 4 2,330,347 622,030 2,952,377 19,78,116 276,186 2,254,302
Net movement in funds (30,533) 59,353 28,820 (42,837) 78,898 36,061
Reconcliation of funds
Total funds brought forward 812,540 117,717 930,257 855,377 38,819 894,196
Total funds carried forward 11 782,007 177,070 959,077 812,540 117,717 930,257

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CONSOLIDATED AND CHARITY BALANCE SHEET

Notes Group Charity
2022 2021 2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Fixed assets - - - -
Tangible fxed assets 7 14,440 16,449 14,440 16,449
Investment in subsidiary 12 - - 1 1
Total fxed assets 14,440 16,449 14,441 16,450
Current assets
Debtors 8 521,689 88,902 672,260 477,458
Cash at bank and in hand 1,041,049 1,596,845 891,592 1,196,853
Total current assets 1,562,738 1,685,747 1,563,852 1,674,311
Liabilities
Creditors: amounts due within one year 9 618,101 771,939 619,216 760,504
Net current assets 944,637 913,808 944,636 913,807
Total net assets 959,077 930,257 959,077 930,257
Funds
Restricted funds 177,070 117,717 177,070 117,717
Unrestricted funds 782,007 812,540 782,007 812,540
Total funds 11 959,077 930,257 959,077 930,257

The results of the parent charity for the year ending 31 Dec 2022 were: Deficit £43,854 (2021 Surplus £36,061)

Approved by the trustees on 26[th] April 2023 and signed on their behalf by:

Debra Davis

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CONSOLIDATED STATEMENT OF CASH FLOW

2022 2021
£ £
Cash flows from operating activities:
Net income/(expenditure) for the reporting period
(as per the statement of fnancial activities)		 28,820 36,061
Adjustments for:
Depreciation charges and los in disposal 10,569 12,686
Loss on disposals of fxed assets 1,603
Decrease/(increase) in debtors (432,787) 123,466
(Decrease)/increase in creditors (153,838) (146,842)
Net cash provided by (used in) operating activities (545,633) 25,371
Cash flows from investing activities:
Fixed asset additions (10,163) (8,913)
Net cash provided by (used in) investing activities (10,163) (8,913)
Change in cash and cash equivalents in the reporting period (555,796) 16,458
At 1 January 2022 Cash fow At 31 December 2022
Analysis of cash and cash equivalents £ £ £
Cash at bank and in hand 1,596,845 (555,796) 1,041,049
Total cash and cash equivelents 1,596,845 (555,796) 1,041,049

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Financial Statements For the year ended 31 December 2022

NOTES TO THE FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

1. Basis of preparation and accounting policies

  1. The financial statements have been prepared under the historical cost convention and in accordance with Financial Reporting Standards applicable in the UK (FRS 102) and the Companies Act 2006. They follow the recommendations in the Charities SORP (2019); Statement of Recommended Practice applicable to charities preparing their accounts in accordance with FRS 102 effective 1 January 2019.

  2. The organisation is a charitable company limited by guarantee, incorporated in England and Wales. Its registered office and principal place of business is: IAPB, The Northern Shell Building 4th Floor, 10 Lower Thames Street, London, EC3R 6AF.

  3. The charitable company is exempt from corporation tax as all its income is charitable and is applied for charitable purposes. IAPB meets the definition of a public benefit entity as defined under FRS 102.

  4. As outlined in the Financial Review the trustees have reasonable expectation that the charity has the resources to continue its activities for the foreseeable future. Accordingly they continue to adopt the going concern basis in preparing the financial statements.

  5. Group accounts have been prepared for the International Agency for the Prevention of Blindness (IAPB) and its wholly owned subsidiary

company, IAPB Trading Limited. The charity has taken advantage of the exemptions in FRS 102 from the requirements to present a charity only Cash Flow Statement and certain disclosures about the charity’s financial instruments. The charity has also taken advantage of the exemption allowed under section 408 of the Companies Act 2006 and has not presented its own Statement of Financial Activities in these financial statements.

The accounts have been consolidated on a line by line basis to include the results of IAPB Trading Limited. The results of IAPB Trading Limited are shown separately on note 13.

  1. Voluntary income is received by way of donations and gifts and is included in full in the statement of financial activities when receivable. Volunteer time is not included in the statements.

  2. Grants are recognised in full in the statement of financial activities in the year in which they are receivable, unless they relate to a specific future period, in which case they are deferred. Membership fees are recognised in the financial statements in line with the period in which Members are entitled to benefits. Membership fees received in advance are deferred.

  3. Gifts in kind represent services provided to the charity at no charge or goods donated for distribution or use by the charity. Goods or services given for use by the charity are recognised when receivable. Gifts in kind are valued at cost if known or else the price the charity would otherwise have paid for the assets or services.

  4. Support and governance costs are allocated across charitable activities on the basis of head count.

  5. Resources expended are recognised in the period in which they are incurred. Resources expended include attributable VAT which cannot be recovered.

  6. Grants payable are charged to the SOFA in accordance with the terms and conditions attached to the individual grant agreements. Such grants are recognised as expenditure when the conditions attached are fulfilled – generally as money is requested by the grant recipient.

Grants offered subject to conditions which have not been met at the year-end are noted as a commitment, but not as accrued as expenditure.

  1. Income and expenditure incurred by the regional offices, which do not include the autonomous Eastern Mediterranean Region, have been consolidated into the accounts under the relevant headings.

  2. IAPB offers staff the option of a stakeholder pension or provident fund. The pension cost charge shown under staff expenditure represents contributions paid and payable in the year. The assets of these schemes are independent from IAPB and IAPB has no additional liability other than for the payment of those contributions.

  3. Termination benefits proscribed by the employment contract are accrued when these are earned (by virtue of length of service). Termination

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payments are valued at the higher of the amount required by law or the amount proscribed by the employment contract and recognised when due less the value of termination benefits previously accrued.

  1. Depreciation is provided at rates calculated to write down the cost of each asset to its estimated residual value over its expected useful life. The depreciation rates in use are as follows:

  2. Computer equipment (tangible) 33% per annum

Items of equipment are capitalised where the purchase price exceeds £1,000. Depreciation costs are allocated to activities on the basis of the use of the related assets in those activities.

Expenditure on the development of web resources (Intangible assets) are expensed in the year. Prior to 2020 the costs associated with Intangible Assets once fully operational, were amortised over their useful life.

  1. Cash at bank and in hand includes money held in current accounts and in no- notice deposits, petty cash, and money market deposits.

  2. Debtors are valued at the amounts owing (or prepaid) less a provision for doubtful debt. Amounts in foreign currencies are valued at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date.

  3. Financial instruments are initially recognised at the amount receivable or payable including any related transaction costs. They are held at amortised cost; that is the amount initially recognised less any principal repaid plus any interest accrued. Financial assets held are cash and bank and in hand, together with trade and other debtors. Financial liabilities are trade and other creditors.

  4. Creditors are valued at the amounts owing (or income received in advance). Amounts in foreign currencies are valued at the rates of exchange ruling at the balance sheet date.

  5. Restricted funds are to be used for specific purposes as laid down by the donor. Expenditure which meets these criteria is charged to the fund, this may include a fair allocation of management and support costs where allowed by the donor.

  6. Unrestricted funds are donations and other incoming resources receivable or generated for the objects of the charity. Income is recognised when there is evidence of entitlement, the amount can be measured and the receipt is probable. Where terms and conditions have not been met, or, uncertainty exists as to whether IAPB can meet the terms and conditions otherwise within its control, the income is not recognised but deferred as a liability until it is probable that the terms and conditions imposed can be met.

  7. Foreign exchange gains are recorded as other income in the Statement of Financial Activities and losses as cost of the relevant activity. Transactions in foreign currencies are translated pounds at a daily rate based on mid-market opening rate at midnight.

  8. There are no sources of estimation uncertainty that have a significant effect on the amounts recognised in the financial statements.

Photo Submitted by: Keith Kalu to the IAPB World Sight Day Photo Competition

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2. Income from grants

2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
£ £ £ £
Clearly 274,000 – 274,000 286,600
CBM – 112,700 112,700 63,063
The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF) – 45,022 45,022 100,189
F. Hofmann-La Roche Ltd – 75,000 75,000 –
Seva Foundation – 39,803 39,803 –
The Allergan Foundation – – – 63,977
Sightsavers – 9,685 9,685 25,314
Vision Spring – 9,685 9,685 25,230
Vision Council – 9,685 9,685 9,005
Onesight – 9,685 9,685 –
World Diabetes Foundation 8,387 – 8,387 –
20/20 Quest – – – 25,301
Vision for a Nation – – – 25,230
Other grants and donations (£5,000 or less) 12,491 – 12,491 81,752
Total(£) 294,878 311,265 606,143 705,661
3. Other income
2022 2021
Unrestricted Restricted Total Total
£ £ £ £
Commercial Income and Sponsorship 554,736 – 554,736 286,949
Coalition for Clear Vision – 370,118 370,118 163,519
Other 30,982 – 30,982 42,650
Total (£) 585,718 370,118 955,836 493,118

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4. Analysis of charitable expenditure by cost type

Global Advocacy Communicating Strengthening the Providing Services Support and 2022 2021
and Connecting Network Governance costs
Knowledge
£ £ £ £ £ £ £
Staf costs (note 6) 454,544 300,826 351,879 169,015 47,379 1,323,643 1,132,605
Travel & meetings 254,404 38,156 88,500 13,533 23,665 418,258 22,268
Events and conferences 9,763 49,241 60,360 – – 119,364 16,012
Consultancy and other activity costs 182,220 151,945 450,417 16,260 -1,138 799,704 506,148
Online resources and promotions – 16,538 7,201 – 4,128 27,867 130,119
Ofce and Administration 34,927 21,453 80,595 2,795 244,294 384,064 407,802
Exchange Gains – – – – -120,523 -120,523 39,348
935,858 578,159 1,038,952 201,603 197,805 2,952,377 2,254,302
Support and governance costs 70,449 46,624 54,537 26,195 (197,805) – –
Total 1,006,307 624,783 1,093,489 227,798 – 2,952,377 2,254,302
2021 646,562 536,543 891,511 179,686 – 2,254,302

5. Net (expenditure)/incomE

This is stated after charging: 2022 2021
£ £
Depreciation 10,569 12,686
Trustees’ remuneration – –
Trustees’ expenses reimbursed and paid directly 9,846 4,417
Senior management remuneration 621,187 464,186
Auditors’ remuneration
Charity audit 12,045 10,800
Adjustment from prior year – –

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6. Staff costs and numbers

Staff costs were as follows: 2022 2021
£ £
Salaries and wages 1,102,183 947,816
Social security costs 72,633 69,482
Pension 100,481 92,355
Other staf costs
Termination benefts		 36,346
12,000		 22,952
–
Total 1,323,643 1,132,605

Reimbursed expenses above relate to the reimbursement of 4 trustees (2021: 2) for travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.

The numbers of employees whose emoluments for the year fell within the following bands were:

2022 2021
£60,000 - £70,000 3 2
£70,000 - £80,000 3 3
£80,000 - £90,000 1 –
£90,000 - £100,000 – –
£100,000 - £110,000 – 1
£110,000 - £120,000 1 –

Staff Head Count and Full Time Equivalent (FTE)

Head Count
2022 2021
Global Advocacy 8.0 5.8
Strengthening the Network 3.1 3
Communicating and Connecting Knowledge 6.8 6.3
Providing Services 4.1 2.0
Support and Governance costs 1.2 1
Total 23.2 18.1

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7. Fixed Assets

Tangible Intangible Total
Cost £ £ £
At 1 January 2022 70,187 156,656 226,843
Additions during the year 10,163 – 10,163
Disposal during the year (43,637) (15,947) (59,584)
At 31 December 2022 36,713 140,709 177,422
Depreciation
At 1 January 2022 53,738 156,656 210,394
Charge for the period 10,569 – 10,569
Disposal during the year (42,034) (15,947) (57,981)
At 31 December 2022 22,273 140,709 162,982

Net book value

At 31 December 2022 14,440 – 14,440
At 31 December 2021 16,449 16,449

All fixed assets held are classified as IT resources.

All Intangibles are internally developed web resources.

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8. Debtors: amount due within one yeaR

Group Charity
2022 2021 2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Trade debtors 436,649 68,098 436,649 66,298
Amounts owing by subsidiary – – 150,571 390,356
Prepayments 36,970 11,830 36,970 11,830
Other debtors 48,070 8,974 48,070 8,974
Total 521,689 88,902 672,260 477,458

Trade debtors include membership and grant invoices due as at 31 December 2022. Prepayments is comprised of deposits held in advance and payments made in advance towards activities relating to the next financial year.

9. Creditors: amount due within one yeaR

Group Charity
2022 2021 2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Trade creditors 124,986 133,967 124,986 132,743
Accruals 42,526 13,140 42,526 13,140
Deferred income 416,257 576,110 416,257 576,110
Other creditors – 201 – 201
Taxation and Social Security 34,332 48,521 35,447 38,310
Total 618,101 771,939 619,216 760,504
Deferred income movements in the year:
2021 Release from Addition in 2022
previous year current year
Membership 160,343 160,343 78,053 78,053
Other 415,767 415,767 338,204 338,204
Total 576,110 576,110 416,257 416,257

Deferred income is income received in 2022 relating to the 2023 financial year.

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10. Analysis of group net assets between funds

Restricted funds General funds Total funds
£ £ £
2022
Tangible & Intangible fxed assets – 14,440 14,440
Net current Assets 177,070 767,567 944,637
Group net assets at the end of theyear 177,070 782,007 959,077
2021
Tangible & Intangible fxed assets - 16,449 16,449
Net current Assets 117,717 796,091 913,808
Groupnet assets at the end of theyear 117,717 812,540 930,257

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11. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS

For year ending 31 December 2022 At the start Incoming Outgoing Transfers At the end
of the year Resources Resources between funds of the year
£ £ £ £ £
Global Advocacy
Global and Regional Advocacy
CBM – 102,999 102,999 – –
FHF – 35,440 35,440 – –
Friends of Vision Secretariat
Various – 58,023 58,023 – –
Vision for Africa
Swiss Red Cross (Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz) 38,819 – 38,819 – –
European Vision Health Advocacy
F. Hofmann-La Roche Ltd – 75,000 75,000 – –
Strengthening the Network
Coalition for Clear Vision 78,898 370,118 271,946 – 177,070
Communicating and Connecting Knowledge
Seva foundation – 39,803 39,803 – –
Restricted funds 117,717 681,383 622,030 – 177,070
Unrestricted funds:
General funds 812,540 2,299,814 2,330,347 – 782,007
Total funds 930,257 2,981,197 2,952,377 – 959,077

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11. MOVEMENTS IN FUNDS (continued)

For year ending 31 December 2021 At the start of the Incoming Outgoing Transfers between At the end of the
year Resources Resources funds year
£ £ £ £ £
Global Advocacy
Global and Regional Advocacy
CBM – 63,063 63,063 – –
FHF – 100,189 100,189 – –
World Report on Vision - QEDJT – – – – –
Friends of Vision Secretariat
Various – 28,313 28,313 – –
Vision for Africa - Various
CBM – – – – –
Swiss Red Cross (Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz) 38,819 – – – 38,819
Strengthening the Network
Coalition for Clear Vision – 163,519 84,621 – 78,898
Restricted funds 38,819 355,084 276,186 117,717
Unrestricted funds:
General funds 855,377 1,935,279 1,978,116 – 812,540
Total funds 894,196 2,290,363 2,254,302 – 930,257

Restricted funds in deficit at the year end are due to a prepayment relating to the World report on Vision to be released in 2019 when the Report is published.

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12. Subsidiary undertakings

IAPB owns the whole of the issued share capital (£1) of IAPB Trading Ltd company number 7842726, Registered office The Northern Shell Building 4th Floor, 10 Lower Thames Street, London, EC3R 6AF. The Trading Subsidiary was registered in November 2011; the principal activities of the company are the receipt of corporate sponsorship, sale of exhibition space and advertising. The taxable profit is donated to IAPB.

Income and expenditure 2022 2021
£ £
Turnover – 453,925
Total income – 453,925
Cost of sales - 155,364
Overheads including intercompany service - 17,660
charges
Other expenses / (income) (13,321) (7,602)
Total expenses (13,321) 165,422
Total gain before donation 13,321 288,503
Donation to IAPB 13,321 288,503

At 31 December 2022, the total assets of IAPB Trading Ltd were £150,570 (2021 £401,791) and the total liabilities £150,570 (2021 £401,790).

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13. Related parties

“IAPB Member organisations are the main donors to the charity and are also often paid funds in furtherance of IAPB’s objects. Decisions on such transactions are made in accordance with the charity’s conflicts of interest policy, such that Trustees, staff or committee members with an conflict of interest are not involved in the decision making process.

The Trustees and senior staff who have an interest in any organisation giving funds to or receiving funds from IAPB (other than membership fees), and the aggregate amounts for each related organisation are as follows:

2022 2021
£ £ £ £
Trustee
Related organisation		 Amount received Amount paid Amount received Amount paid
Muhammad Babar Qureshi (Director) / Raier Brockhaus (CEO)
CBM 140,993 – 63,063 –
Nick Kourgialis (Vice President)
Helen Keller International (HKI)		 4328 – 3,604 –
Derek Hodkey (CEO)
Orbis International		 4,328 – 3,604 –
Dr Caroline Harper (CEO)
Sightsavers		 77,254 – 37,354 –
Jennifer Gersbeck (Director) / Amanda Davis (Director)
The Fred Hollows Foundation (FHF)		 125,930 – 106,305 –
Jess Blijikers (Director)
Light for the World (LFW)		 4,190 – 3,606 –
Katherine Overbey (CEO)
Onesight		 60,400 – 18,496 18,246
Kevin Hassey (Board Member)
20/20 Quest		 – – 25,302 –
Kashinath Bhoosnurmath (Vice President)
Operation Eyesight Universal 9753 – 3,604 –
Dr Suzanne Gilbert (Director)
Seva Foundation 193,959 – 23,663 –

Amounts include grants (see note 6), donations and services

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