Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand Trust — Arts & Culture Charity in Wellington
Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Wellington, Wellington. Annual revenue: $1.8M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: The principal activity of the Trust is the advancement of choral singing in New Zealand by the administration of three choirs. The three choirs are New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir and Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir. Choirs Aotearoa NZ (CANZ) exists so that people of Aotearoa NZ are inspired to appreciate, participate and excel in Choral singing. Our vision is to be a national organisation that provides for participation, promotes and fosters leadership, and sets the standards of excellence within the choral community in Aotearoa NZ.
- Registration Number
- CC21921
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-03-17
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Wellington, Wellington
- Website
- http://www.choirs.nz
- choirs@choirsnz.co.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $1.8M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $1.9M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.4M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.3M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 6
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $0.3M |
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $0.4M |
| 2023 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $0.4M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $0.5M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.0M | $0.6M |
| 2020 | $0.9M | $0.8M | $0.4M |
| 2019 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $0.3M |
| 2018 | $0.9M | $0.8M | $0.3M |
| 2017 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $0.2M |
| 2016 | $0.8M | $0.8M | $0.2M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (32)
- Nick Tipping — Trustee
- Robert Wiremu — Trustee (departed 2026-07-18)
- David Reeves — Trustee
- Gina Rogers — Trustee
- Bianca Davidson — Trustee
- Richard Sorrenson — Trustee (chair)
- Warren Kilham — Trustee (departed 2025-09-30)
- Amanda Barclay — Trustee (departed 2025-10-24)
- Linda Webb — Trustee
- Katie Macfarlane — Trustee (departed 2022-12-31)
- Jennifer McGechie — Trustee (departed 2020-12-31)
- Amanda Reid — Trustee (departed 2019-12-31)
- Gary Colquhoun-Petherick — Trustee (departed 2020-12-31)
- Richard Sim — Trustee (departed 2022-03-31)
- Stephen Park — Trustee (departed 2017-08-31)
- Andrea Gray — Trustee (departed 2020-09-12)
- David Hamilton — Trustee (departed 2018-12-06)
- Les Foy — Trustee (departed 2019-12-31)
- Leslie Foy — Trustee (departed 2019-12-31)
- Lindsey Lawton — Trustee (departed 2013-08-24)
Funding Sources
- Foundation North — $59,000
- Foundation North — $58,000
- Foundation North — $41,445
- New Zealand Community Trust — $40,000
- Foundation North — $39,952
- Foundation North — $36,740
- Foundation North — $35,400
- New Zealand Community Trust — $35,000
- New Zealand Community Trust — $25,000
- Foundation North — $23,350
- Pub Charity Limited — $20,000
- Four Winds Foundation Limited — $15,000
- Aotearoa Gaming Foundation — $12,996.22
- Four Winds Foundation Limited — $10,000
- One Foundation — $10,000
- Aotearoa Gaming Foundation — $9,974
- Mainland Foundation Limited — $9,000
- Lion Foundation — $6,000
- Four Winds Foundation Limited — $6,000
- Pelorus Trust — $5,000
- Aotearoa Gaming Foundation — $5,000
- Kiwi Gaming Foundation Limited — $3,636.78
- ILT Foundation — $2,000
- Redwood Trust Incorporated — $1,000
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Choirs Aotearoa New Zealand Trust
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
XRB Tier 3 lets smaller charities (total expenses of $5M or less; $2M for periods ending before 28 March 2024) file a simple-format performance report instead of full PBE standards. The return reports totals but not the program/administration split or the line-item detail our template needs. No red flags were detected in what was filed, and revenue is below our $2M rating threshold. (Whether the accounts must be audited is a separate Charities Act test: audit from $1.1M of operating expenditure, review from $550K.) A letter grade is withheld rather than assigning one that would be driven by the template-fit, not the charity's operations. The charity's filed figures are shown above, and any structural concerns a donor would want to look at are surfaced separately. (v3.3 — set at the pre-2024 Tier 3 ceiling; matches Charity Navigator and CharityWatch US practice.)
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About
The principal activity of the Trust is the advancement of choral singing in New Zealand by the administration of three choirs. The three choirs are New Zealand Youth Choir, New Zealand Secondary Students' Choir and Voices New Zealand Chamber Choir. Choirs Aotearoa NZ (CANZ) exists so that people of Aotearoa NZ are inspired to appreciate, participate and excel in Choral singing. Our vision is to be a national organisation that provides for participation, promotes and fosters leadership, and sets the standards of excellence within the choral community in Aotearoa NZ.
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Ranked against 27 peers · Arts & Culture · $1M – $10M
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