Annual Report 2022/2023
Your continued care and support inspires and motivates us
Thank you for your support over the last financial year. Your support has enabled us to make a tangible difference to Kiwis affected by incurable breast cancer.
Whether you’ve given your time, shared your expertise, joined our events, or made a financial contribution – your compassion, cooperation and collaboration makes our work possible.
In this latest Sweet Louise Annual Report, we highlight some of the amazing stories from those who have benefited from Sweet Louise care, as well as profiling the many inspirational ways you have chosen to support us this year.
Inside the Annual Report 2022/2023
- Letter from the Chair and CEO
- Highlights from 2022/23
- Financial review
- Our amazing members: meet Debra, Barbara and Peka
- Meet the team: meet Ashleigh Support Coordinator for the upper South Island
- Highlights from our fundraisers, supporters and events
Annual Report 2021/2022
Thank you for an inspirational year.
Thanks to your compassion and generosity, Sweet Louise continues to deliver practical, emotional and social support to New Zealanders with advanced, incurable breast cancer.
In this latest Sweet Louise Annual Report, we feel inspired and motivated as we look back at what proved to be an uplifting albeit challenging year. Collaboration and hard work from our supporters, donors, members, staff, trustees, volunteers, organisations and partners helped to ensure Sweet Louise could be there for New Zealanders with incurable breast cancer.
Our amazing supporters, donors and partners generously donated $1.4 million this financial year. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts for growing with us and helping meet an increasing demand for services.
Inside the Annual Report 2021/2022
- Letter from the Chair and CEO
- Highlights from 2021
- Financial review
- Our amazing members: Karen and Barbara
- Meet the team: meet Kendra, Support Coordinator for Northland and north Auckland
- Highlights from our fundraisers, supporters and events
Annual Report 2020 / 2021
2020 has been a year like no other. Like the rest of New Zealand, we faced the first challenges of Covid-19 together.
Our gratitude goes out to all the wonderful New Zealanders and organisations that continued to support women with incurable breast cancer through this time. It is only because of your ongoing generosity that Sweet Louise has been able to continue to provide vital care and support.
As the number of New Zealanders that Sweet Louise supports continues to grow, so does our need for funds. It is because of friends like you that our dream to be able to reach every woman in New Zealand facing a diagnosis of incurable breast cancer is becoming a reality.
We would like to sincerely thank our committed staff and dedicated trustees and volunteers, who have been remarkable at continuing to provide compassionate care and support in such a challenging time.
Inside the Annual Report 2020/2021
- Letter from the Chair and CEO
- Highlights from 2020
- Financial review
- Our amazing members: Karen and Tania
- Meet the team: meet our Support Coordinator and volunteers
- Highlights from our supporters and events
Annual Report 2019 / 2020
No organisation works harder than Sweet Louise to meet the needs and hopes of New Zealanders living with incurable breast cancer.
Reflecting on the 2019 / 2020 Financial Year, we can’t help but be influenced by how the year has ended. We don’t yet know the longer-term effects of the upheaval and strains of COVID-19 and the associated lockdown, which remains in place as we write this report. The year ahead will surely be one of the most challenging for Sweet Louise. But it is one from which we are confident we will emerge even stronger.
Our members have again during the year, both humbled and energised us. It is their voice that reminds us of the truly valued role we
play in their lives. No organisation works harder to meet the needs and hopes of those living with incurable breast cancer.
Our purpose to improve their quality of life remains as vital today as it ever has been.
Inside the Annual Report
- Letter from the Chair, letter from the CEO
- Highlights from 2019
- Financial review
- Our amazing members: Marino and Tessa
- Highlights from our supporters and events
View and download the Annual Report 2019 / 2020 (pdf)
Annual Report 2018 / 2019
At Sweet Louise, our mission is to help improve the quality of life for those in Aotearoa living with incurable breast cancer.
We are extremely proud of what has been achieved in 2018 / 2019 and how we are fulfilling the mission of Sweet Louise.
Our membership increased 13% overall this year, compared with the previous financial year. As at the end of March 2019, we had 670 members throughout the country. However, this one number does not tell the full story. During the year we
gained 281 new members, and lost 205.
Most significantly, the growth in our membership came from the Northland, Auckland and Waikato regions. We are pleased to be supporting more members and that 95% of our members believe that Sweet Louise is making a positive difference to their lives.
Click here to read the full 2018 / 2019 Sweet Louise Annual Report