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Charity Summary

Charity Details

Legal name of the Charity:

Newtown Festival Trust

Other Name (inc Trading Name):

Newtown Festival

Registration number:

CC54715

NZBN number:

9429046250445

Current Status:

Registered

Registration details

Date of Registration:

10/07/2017

Balance Date:

June 30

Address for service

Charity's Postal Address:

PO Box 7316

Newtown

Wellington

6242

Charity's Street Address:

123 Daniell Street

Newtown

Wellington

6021

Charity's other details

Phone:

027 639 8696

Email:

newtownfestival@gmail.com

Website:

https://www.newtownfestival.org.nz

Facebook:

www.facebook.com/newtownfestival

Twitter:

@NewtownFestival

Other Social Network:

@newtownfestnz

Areas of Operation:

Nationwide

Organisation with a focus on the following communities:

N/A

View Charity Link:

https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC54715

Purpose & Structure

Charitable Purpose

The charitable purposes of Newtown Festival Trust centre on education, challenging, encouraging, motivating, promoting, facilitating and supporting artistic endeavours; the creative use of public space; a community performance arts-based festival in Newtown and other similar events; public arts, cultural and arts education events across the country; the production of artworks; and community enhancement. These charitable purposes are set out in clause 4 of the Trust Deed (i.e rules attached)

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

Activities:

Provides services (e.g. care / counselling)

Provides human resources (e.g. staff / volunteers), Provides buildings / facilities / open space

Sectors:

Arts / culture / heritage

Environment / conservation, Community development, Promotion of volunteering

Beneficiaries:

General public

Other charities, Voluntary bodies other than charities

Legal Structure

Charitable Trusts incorporated under the Charitable Trusts Act

Annual Returns

Annual Returns are due within 6 months of a charity’s balance date (financial year-end), or a longer period if an extension has been granted.

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
30/06/2025	31/12/2025	26/12/2025	$565,375	$526,835	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2024	31/12/2024	11/11/2024	$522,033	$522,331	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2023	31/12/2023	22/12/2023	$463,178	$478,399	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2022	31/12/2022	21/12/2022	$377,505	$411,740	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2021	28/02/2022	9/03/2022	$434,066	$424,575	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2020	28/02/2021	4/03/2021	$402,105	$382,294	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2019	29/02/2020	29/02/2020	$359,713	$368,503	Included in Annual Return
30/06/2018	31/12/2018	20/12/2018	$297,426	$251,374	Included in Annual Return

Officer Details

Officers

Officer Name	Position	Effective Date
Martin Cordmires Hanley	Trustee	20/10/2022
Noel Rawiri Woods	Trustee	20/10/2022
Andrew John Nicholls	Trustee - Chairperson	27/11/2017
Deirdre Elizabeth Anna Tarrant	Trustee	27/11/2017
Anna Kemble Welch	Trustee	1/07/2017
James Patrick Coyle	Trustee	1/07/2017

Past Officers

Officer Name	Position	Past Since
Ian Duncan McKinnon	Trustee	8/03/2021
Karen Lorraine Fifield	Trustee	8/03/2020

Charity Updates

Here is a list of all the details changed by the charity, for example adding or removing officers, amending rules, changing balance dates or updating address details.

Date Created	Reference	View Summary (.pdf <1MB)
7/11/2022	NOC011
20/10/2022	NOC010
12/11/2020	NOC006
13/12/2017	NOC001

Charity Documents

Date Uploaded	Document Type	Reference Name