The New Zealand Olympic Committee has presented its Annual Report for 2015.
At the organisation's General Assembly, which took place today in Auckland, President Mike Stanley said the New Zealand Olympic Committee continued to perform well in an increasingly demanding international sporting environment delivering against its key objective to inspire pride and excellence in all New Zealanders.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee Board
The organisation remained committed to the activities central to its purpose as increasing costs, numbers of games to deliver and high performance expectations continued to provide challenges.
"While the focus on preparation and planning for the Rio Olympic Games grew throughout 2015, we also successfully selected organised, and led New Zealand teams to three pre-elite games,” he said, referring to the World University Games, Commonwealth Youth Games and Pacific Games which provide beneficial multi-sport experiences for young athletes.
“We continued our strong partnerships with High Performance Sport New Zealand, Sport NZ and National Sporting Organisations which are critical to the seamless transition of athletes from training and preparation to the Olympic Games environment.
“We also significantly improved our standing within the Olympic and Commonwealth Games movements as a result of our international advocacy strategy, hosting the Commonwealth Games Federation General Assembly, the visit of IOC President Bach and then IAAF Vice-President Lord Coe.”
The organisation also launched the public-facing “Be the Inspiration” campaign at the fund-raising Prime Minister’s Olympic Gala dinner celebrating the one year countdown to Rio 2016.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee is a not-for-profit charitable organisation that is heavily reliant on commercial partners which provided 50% of revenue in 2015.
Finishing the year with a surplus of $613,000, up $1.576m from 2014, and net assets at $1.883m, the organisation remains focused on the need to secure additional and diversified funding partners to meet the significant expenditure required for the delivery of the Rio 2016 Olympic Games and beyond.
As part of its work in promoting the Olympic Values through education, 50,000 New Zealand children were able to interact with Olympic Ambassadors and new classroom resources were launched ahead of the Rio Olympic Games.
Stanley addressed the issue of integrity in sport, referring to the 2015 implementation of the New Zealand Olympic Committee’s new integrity framework and the organisation's ongoing collaboration with New Zealand government and sporting agencies to take a broad approach to integrity and ethics in sport.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee Annual Report is available for download at http://www.olympic.org.nz/assets/Uploads/Annual-Report-2015.pdf.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee's core activities include selecting, organising and leading teams to games, leading and advocating in the international and domestic environment, promotion of the Olympic values and legacy and generating revenue.
The New Zealand Olympic Committee General Assembly took place at Eden Park in Auckland and was attended by representatives of the organisation’s membership of 29 National Sporting Organisations and 27 affiliate and associate membership organisations.
Liz Dawson was reelected to the New Zealand Olympic Committee board. As such, the organisation's board remains unchanged.
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