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Charity Summary


Charity Details

The Volunteer Ophthalmic Services Overseas Trust
VOSO
CC11186
9429042889236
Registered

Registration details

20/09/2007
June 30

Address for service

C/- Eye Doctors
PO Box 128-214
Remuera
Auckland
1541
C/- Eye Doctors
L2, Ascot Hospital
90 Greenlane East
Auckland
1541

Charity's other details

09 520-9689
richardj@adhb.govt.nz
https://voso.org.nz

Oceania

Fiji, Samoa, Tonga, Vanuatu


Organisation with a focus on the following communities:


https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC11186

Purpose & Structure

Charitable Purpose

To provide volunteer eye care to South Pacific Nations. To participate in international projects aimed at minimising preventable blindness. To enable by funding the visits of optometrists and ophthalmologists to South Pacific nations to provide eye-care to local people unable to obtain access to such service because of poverty or isolation. To participate and promote programmes of education on issues of eye care and to co-ordinate the supply of spectacles and other eye appliances to those in need.

Note: The main sectors, activities and beneficiaries are bolded.

Other (please state)

(Donates Ophthalmic Supplies, Provides Eye Health Services), Provides advice / information / advocacy, Provides human resources (e.g. staff / volunteers)

Health

Other (please state)

(People with Vision Impairment or Eye Pathology), Children / young people, Older people, People with disabilities, General public

Legal Structure

Charitable Trusts incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act

Annual Returns

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Note: Charities that use the Tier 4 Combined Form to file their annual returns do not need to file their financial statements separately. The financial statements are included in their annual return summary.

For Year Ended Due Date Date Submitted Total Income Total Expenditure Financial Statements Annual Return Summary
30/06/2025 31/12/2025 26/11/2025 $7,686 $24,545 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2024 31/12/2024 20/09/2024 $8,249 $22,698 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2023 31/12/2023 31/08/2023 $4,175 $26,934 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2022 31/12/2022 24/11/2022 $6,530 $18,045 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2021 31/12/2021 11/01/2022 $2,492 $11,404 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2020 31/12/2020 3/12/2020 $11,699 $28,512 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2019 31/12/2019 2/12/2019 $13,325 $26,635 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2018 31/12/2018 18/12/2018 $20,357 $30,361 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2017 31/12/2017 16/12/2017 $69,173 $27,217 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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30/06/2016 31/12/2016 17/01/2017 $24,353 $16,173 load annual return's financial documents spinner gif
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Officer Details

Officers

Officer Name Position Effective Date
Hussain Yusuf Patel Trustee 8/12/2017
Jesse Gale Trustee 8/12/2017
Jillian Mottram Trustee 4/12/2015
Kylie Dreaver Secretary / Treasurer 4/12/2014
Reuben Gordon Trustee 9/12/2011
David Gordon Coldstream Pendergrast Trustee 17/12/2010
Andrew Riley Executive Trustee 16/11/2007
NZ Association Of Optometrists Inc adminstrative trustee 19/09/2007
Richard Anthony Johnson Executive trustee 19/09/2007

Past Officers

Officer Name Position Past Since
amy Jung Min Lee Trustee 1/01/2025
Hywel Bowen Trustee 9/12/2022
John Tarbutt Trustee 9/12/2019
Michael Brown Executive Trustee 8/03/2018
Brent Gaskin Trustee 9/09/2015
Malcolm McKellar Trustee 9/09/2015
Ravi Dass Trustee / Secretary 9/09/2015
Tony Lee Trustee 31/12/2013
Frances Ryan Executive trustee 17/12/2010
John Geoffrey Tarbutt Executive trustee 17/12/2010

Charity Updates

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29/08/2022 NOC019
17/01/2017 NOC011
26/09/2014 NOC008
23/12/2013 NOC007
15/11/2012 AR006
12/01/2011 AR004
9/12/2009 AR003
22/12/2008 AR002
22/01/2008 NOC002

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