Asthma UK in black & white
29 June 2006

To highlight its achievements over the past financial year and its work with people with asthma, parents, healthcare professionals and researchers, Asthma UK has published its Annual Report & Accounts 2004/2005.

Alongside the full accounts, the report reviews the charity’s key achievements over the year and looks towards the future. The report includes striking portraits of both people with asthma and people working on Asthma UK-funded projects to illustrate the organisation’s five key areas of work: childhood, healthcare, work, life and leisure, and the future.

It also highlights some of the many ways that individuals and organisations have helped us to achieve our objectives – support that is essential to Asthma UK’s progress.

‘All of Asthma UK’s work would not have been possible without the continued support of members, individual and organisational donors, volunteers, branch members, healthcare professionals, and partner organisations, who have generously given their time, money and expertise over the past year,’ said Professor John Price, Asthma UK’s Chairman, in his foreword to the report.

Among these key achievements, in the first full year since its relaunch, Asthma UK: produced information to help people with asthma who have to seek emergency care to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions and repeat attacks; focused on asthma and exercise, including piloting the first stage of a campaign to encourage children with asthma to get the most out of exercise; and co-launched the Asthma UK-MRC Centre in Allergic Mechanisms of Asthma.