Creative Northland — Arts & Culture Charity in Whangarei
Creative Northland is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Whangarei, Whangarei. Annual revenue: $0.7M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: To provide education for and to promote, encourage, support, organise and develop all types of activity within the Creative Sector for the benefit of the people of the District and Northland. a) to foster and provide opportunities to the people, organisations and groups in the District and Northland for participation and enjoyment in the Creative Sector. b) to promote, develop, maintain, control or manage facilities for the Creative Sector C) to foster, promote, organise or conduct any meetings, conferences, demonstrations, lectures, competitions, exhibitions or other social functions or gatherings and research projects for the Creative Sector; and d) to encourage and facilitate public and private patronage and support in order to grow a resource base. The resource base may be used for the establishment and management of a distribution mechanism from which such patronage and support may be distributed for the attainment of the above projects.
- Registration Number
- CC37341
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-30
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Whangarei, Whangarei
- board@creativenorthland.com
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Older people, Other - All
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.7M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.6M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.2M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 10
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $0.2M |
| 2024 | $0.6M | $0.7M | $0.2M |
| 2023 | $0.6M | $0.5M | $0.2M |
| 2022 | $0.6M | $0.4M | $0.2M |
| 2021 | $0.7M | $0.8M | $0.0M |
| 2020 | $0.8M | $0.7M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.5M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
| 2018 | $0.4M | $0.6M | $-0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.4M | $0.5M | $0.1M |
| 2016 | $0.4M | $0.6M | $0.2M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (6)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Kelly Stratford | Trustee | 2026-08-27 |
| Te Hiwi Preston | Trustee | 2026-08-25 |
| Elizabeth Sutherland | Trustee | 2026-08-25 |
| Mark Kelly | Trustee | 2026-08-25 |
| Deborah Harding | Wdc Council Representative | 2026-02-18 |
| Carol Peters | Wdc Councillor Representative | 2020-02-18 |
Former Officers (42)
- Deorah Harding — Wdc Council Representative
- Julia Smith — Trustee (departed 2026-08-25)
- Regan Moyes — Trustee (departed 2025-12-16)
- Jonah Nathan — Trustee (departed 2025-04-01)
- Carolyn Radford — Chair (departed 2026-08-25)
- Russel Mooyman — Trustee (departed 2025-12-16)
- Ralph Johnson — Trustee (departed 2024-09-20)
- Ataria Sharman — Trustee (departed 2024-04-16)
- Carol Ashton — Trustee (departed 2023-08-15)
- Geoffrey Bartlett — Trustee (departed 2026-08-25)
- Philip Alexander-Crawford — Chair (departed 2023-02-15)
- Benjamin Pittman — Trustee (chairperson) (departed 2021-04-20)
- Tania McInnes — Trustee (far North) (departed 2018-06-19)
- Sheryl Bainbridge — Trustee (far North) (departed 2018-11-30)
- Joseph Stuart — Trustee (business Growth) (departed 2018-07-24)
- Hayley MacDonald — Trustee (legal) (departed 2020-04-02)
- Vicki Allen — Trustee (departed 2016-07-31)
- Sidney Quintal — Trustee (departed 2015-11-30)
- David Sinclair — Trustee (nrc Representative) (departed 2017-06-30)
- Julie Cromwell — Trustee (departed 2015-05-12)
Funding Sources
- Foundation North — $690,000
- Foundation North — $241,000
- Foundation North — $230,000
- Foundation North — $220,000
- Foundation North — $213,166
- Foundation North — $180,000
- Foundation North — $180,000
- Foundation North — $140,000
- Pub Charity Limited — $15,000
- Four Winds Foundation Limited — $10,000
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Creative Northland
Financial data as at June 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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- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 7. The Charities Register does not require one to be identified, so this is a gap in the public record rather than a finding about the board.
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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About
To provide education for and to promote, encourage, support, organise and develop all types of activity within the Creative Sector for the benefit of the people of the District and Northland. a) to foster and provide opportunities to the people, organisations and groups in the District and Northland for participation and enjoyment in the Creative Sector. b) to promote, develop, maintain, control or manage facilities for the Creative Sector C) to foster, promote, organise or conduct any meetings, conferences, demonstrations, lectures, competitions, exhibitions or other social functions or gatherings and research projects for the Creative Sector; and d) to encourage and facilitate public and private patronage and support in order to grow a resource base. The resource base may be used for the establishment and management of a distribution mechanism from which such patronage and support may be distributed for the attainment of the above projects.
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