The Board of the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival — Arts & Culture Charity in Port Chalmers
The Board of the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Port Chalmers, Port Chalmers. Annual revenue: $0.0M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at August 2025.
Mission: • To establish and administer a regular literary and multi-genre festival in Dunedin involving local, national and international writers. • To plan the programme of the literary festival. • To raise funds to meet costs for the festival. • To establish and administer a festival that will promote literacy and the enjoyment of the written word. • To encourage international understanding and interest by establishing communication between Dunedin writers, writers from Dunedin’s sister cities, other UNESCO Cities of Literature, and other collaborations as appropriate.
- Registration Number
- CC50002
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2013-10-18
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Port Chalmers, Port Chalmers
- board@dunedinwritersfestival.co.nz
- Data as at
- August 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Older people, Other - All
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.0M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.2M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 5
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-08-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.0M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2024 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2023 | $0.1M | $0.1M | - |
| 2022 | $0.0M | $0.0M | - |
| 2021 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2020 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2017 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2016 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (2)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Jeanette Wikaira | Chair | 2023-11-30 |
| Mary McLaughlin | Chair | 2021-03-02 |
Former Officers (27)
- Aaron Hawkins — Secretary
- Nadia Smith — Treasurer
- Rayna Dickson — Board Administrator & Bookkeeper (departed 2024-09-30)
- Anna Hoek-Sims — Board Trustee
- Meg Hamilton — Board Trustee (departed 2025-11-29)
- Kitty Brown — Festival Event Manager (departed 2023-11-30)
- Jennifer Stokes — Event-Co-Ordinator (departed 2024-09-30)
- Amanda Burke — Board Trustee (departed 2025-05-20)
- Philippa Murrell — Funding Coordinator (departed 2024-09-30)
- Linda Geddes — Administration and Communication Coordinator (departed 2024-06-16)
- Nicola McConnell — Chair (departed 2024-08-27)
- Hannah Molloy — Trustee (departed 2020-07-13)
- Fiona Farrell — Trustee (departed 2021-02-03)
- Nicola Cummins — Board Trustee (departed 2024-08-27)
- Charlotte Steel — Trustee (departed 2023-11-30)
- Lesley Smith — Treasurer (departed 2023-11-30)
- Carole Gardiner — Administrator (departed 2020-11-12)
- Helen Speirs — Trustee (departed 2019-07-25)
- Nicky Page — Trustee (departed 2019-10-16)
- Claire Finlayson — Trustee (departed 2017-10-24)
Funding Sources
- Lion Foundation — $10,000
- Lion Foundation — $7,000
- Aotearoa Gaming Foundation — $5,000
- Aotearoa Gaming Foundation — $3,000
- Grassroots Trust Limited — $3,000
- New Zealand Community Trust — $3,000
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The Board of the Dunedin Writers and Readers Festival
Financial data as at August 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.)
How ratings work →$38.8K
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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• To establish and administer a regular literary and multi-genre festival in Dunedin involving local, national and international writers. • To plan the programme of the literary festival. • To raise funds to meet costs for the festival. • To establish and administer a festival that will promote literacy and the enjoyment of the written word. • To encourage international understanding and interest by establishing communication between Dunedin writers, writers from Dunedin’s sister cities, other UNESCO Cities of Literature, and other collaborations as appropriate.
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