Community Development Network Trust — Education Charity in Christchurch
Community Development Network Trust is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Christchurch, Christchurch. Annual revenue: $0.6M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: "Community Development Network Trust (CDN Trust) works with young people and their families. Our activities are based primarily in the Riccarton and Hornby areas, but our youth camps and some events have city-wide impact. We try to foster thinking skills, close relationships, personal competencies, stress tolerance, self-discipline, family, school, peers and culture in young people. We do this through good people, good relationships, good experiences and good values offered through a combination of event based programmes, presence-based youth work and individual case work. Collaboration with other groups in an important feature of many of our programmes. Adding Life to Life! We connect with a wide variety of young people and families. CDN is about connecting with young people wherever they're at and giving them great role models to journey with! As a Christian organisation, we are motivated by a desire to serve our community. All CDN programmes are community services.
- Registration Number
- CC22154
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-03-26
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Christchurch, Christchurch
- james@cdntrust.org.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.6M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.6M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.5M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.3M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 7
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.6M | $0.6M | $0.3M |
| 2024 | $0.6M | $0.6M | $0.3M |
| 2023 | $0.6M | $0.6M | $0.3M |
| 2022 | $0.6M | $0.5M | $0.3M |
| 2021 | $0.5M | $0.4M | $0.2M |
| 2020 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.4M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2016 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (7)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Kathryn Lawry | Trustee | 2025-10-07 |
| Stephen Jaeger | Trustee | 2025-10-07 |
| Brett Hitchens | Trustee | 2024-04-18 |
| Hannah Urbahn | Chair | 2021-06-22 |
| Mark Wells | Trustee | 2017-02-22 |
| Linda Klok | Trustee | 2016-02-23 |
| Mark Styles | Trustee, Treasurer | 2015-10-12 |
Former Officers (13)
- Nathan Broughton — Deputy Chairperson (departed 2026-07-29)
- Corry-Ann Langford — Trustee, Secretary (departed 2023-11-14)
- Amanda Murray — Trustee (departed 2020-02-26)
- Paul Owens — Deputy Chair (departed 2023-11-14)
- Christine Walker — Trustee (departed 2011-09-08)
- Sarah Robinson — Trustee (departed 2014-08-31)
- Lynda Nicholson — Trustee (departed 2008-12-31)
- Lois Flanagan — Trustee (departed 2009-10-14)
- Philip Stedman — Trustee (departed 2016-02-23)
- David Andrew — Secretary (departed 2011-06-01)
- Alan Aitken — Treasurer/managing Trustee (departed 2015-04-30)
- Michael Tan — Trustee (departed 2020-06-30)
- Kevin Wilson — Trustee (departed 2009-10-14)
Funding Sources
- Kiwi Gaming Foundation Limited — $15,000
- The Lion Foundation — $8,000
- Mainland Foundation Limited — $6,075
- Lion Foundation — $6,000
- Pub Charity Limited — $4,029
- Mainland Foundation Limited — $2,000
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Community Development Network Trust
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Charities Services Tier 3 reporting allows charities under $2M revenue to file a simple-format annual return rather than audited financial statements. 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 the $2M Tier 2 boundary where audited accounts become mandatory. 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 — aligned with Charities Services tier boundary; matches Charity Navigator and CharityWatch US practice.)
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"Community Development Network Trust (CDN Trust) works with young people and their families. Our activities are based primarily in the Riccarton and Hornby areas, but our youth camps and some events have city-wide impact. We try to foster thinking skills, close relationships, personal competencies, stress tolerance, self-discipline, family, school, peers and culture in young people. We do this through good people, good relationships, good experiences and good values offered through a combination of event based programmes, presence-based youth work and individual case work. Collaboration with other groups in an important feature of many of our programmes. Adding Life to Life! We connect with a wide variety of young people and families. CDN is about connecting with young people wherever they're at and giving them great role models to journey with! As a Christian organisation, we are motivated by a desire to serve our community. All CDN programmes are community services.
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Ranked against 132 peers · Education · $100K – $1M
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