Taranaki Biodiversity Trust — Environment Charity in New Plymouth
Taranaki Biodiversity Trust is a Trust charity in the Environment sector, based in New Plymouth, New Plymouth. Annual revenue: $1.0M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: Empowering our community to restore our natural environment.
- Registration Number
- CC51797
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2015-05-18
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Environment
- Location
- New Plymouth, New Plymouth
- contact@wildfortaranaki.nz
- Data as at
- June 2025
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $1.0M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $1.1M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.3M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 5
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $1.0M | $1.1M | $0.3M |
| 2024 | $0.5M | $0.3M | $0.3M |
| 2023 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.2M |
| 2022 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2021 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2020 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.2M |
| 2016 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (9)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Danielle Gibas | General Manager | 2024-11-01 |
| Andrew Castle | Trustee | 2024-10-31 |
| Sean Zieltjes | Trustee | 2023-10-31 |
| Tane Houston | Trustee | 2021-10-28 |
| Amanda Clinton-Gohdes | Trustee | 2021-10-28 |
| Beverly Gibson | Trustee | 2021-10-08 |
| Simon Cayley | Trustee | 2020-09-09 |
| Lauren Wallace | Trustee | 2020-07-30 |
| Michael Joyce | Trustee | 2015-04-21 |
Former Officers (15)
- Allen Juffermans — Trustee (departed 2021-10-28)
- Jan Hania — Trustee (departed 2024-10-31)
- Damian Roper — Trustee (departed 2022-10-24)
- Samantha Mortensen — Trustee (departed 2020-07-13)
- Jake Goonan — Trustee (departed 2021-02-11)
- David Speirs — Trustee (departed 2020-10-22)
- Phill Muir — Deputy Chairperson (departed 2020-10-22)
- Michelle Bird — Trustee (departed 2021-09-14)
- Roy Weaver — Chair (departed 2021-10-28)
- Cassandra Crowley — Trustee (departed 2020-06-30)
- Michael Weren — Trustee (departed 2018-10-27)
- Allen Stancliff — Trustee and Board Member (departed 2017-10-28)
- Karen Schumacher — Trustee (departed 2015-08-19)
- Kara Prankerd — Trustee and Board Member (departed 2017-10-28)
- Liam Dagg — Trustee (departed 2018-10-27)
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Taranaki Biodiversity Trust
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Our scorecard uses a different template for different kinds of charity — an operating charity is measured differently from an endowment or a grant-making trust. This charity's type has not yet been classified, so a letter grade is withheld rather than assigned using a template chosen by default. That says nothing about the charity itself. Its filed figures are shown above, and it will be graded once its type is classified.
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- No chair designatedBoard of 9 with no chair designated on the register
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$1.1M
$614.9K
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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Empowering our community to restore our natural environment.
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Ranked against 61 peers · Environment · $1M – $10M
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