Coastguard Northern Region - 2018 Performance Report

The cost of saving lives at sea
Finance Report
Coastguard Northern Region’s performance is laid out
through our Statement of Service Performance and in
the stories we tell throughout this report. Those outputs
and outcomes – lives saved and boaties assisted,
safety services delivered and volunteers and students
educated – are our true measures of success.
Such services come at a cost, and thankfully for
Coastguard and all who benefit from these services,
those costs are greatly reduced through the very
substantial contribution of our volunteers, who give
their labour and expertise for free. There is no doubt
that were this cost to be monetised and recorded in our
financial statements, it would be our most substantial
expense.
In the last financial year the cost of providing Coastguard
services to the approximately 2 million residents of the
Northland, Auckland and Waikato regions covered by CNR
was $5.51 million*.
Key expenses in the period included:
• $1.3m paid to units and the Auckland Air Patrol for
operational costs and equipment maintenance.
• $0.47m of costs to recruit and train the region’s
volunteers and to educate boaties on public courses.
• $0.87m spent telling our story, raising funds and taking
Old4New to our communities.
Movements on the previous year include:
• An increase in funds distributed to units for rescue asset
repairs and maintenance, and for fuel costs.
• An increase in marketing and fundraising costs including
the cost of the bi-annual NZ Shipping Ball.
• Increased salary costs including the cost of establishing
CNR’s Fundraising Team.
• Increased Operational expenses resulting from
CNR’s investment in technology including the VHF
Communications project and Sharepoint.
CNR is grateful for the support of the Auckland Marine
Rescue Centre Trust whose purpose is to support the
charities resident at the Marine Rescue Centre by providing
low-cost accommodation.
Our Costs
2017- 2018
The cost of saving lives
n Paid to units $1,303,755 23%
n Education COS $472,259 8%
n Air patrol expenses $48,570 1%
n Staff expenses $1,988,669 36%
n Marketing $871,150 16%
n AMRC expenses $82,377 1%
n Operational expenses $509,883 9%
n Amortisation $33,847 1%
n Depreciation $251,005 5%
n Loss on disposal $2,876 0%
*Does not include costs paid by units
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