Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust — Environment Charity in Dunedin
Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust is a Trust charity in the Environment sector, based in Dunedin, Dunedin. Annual revenue: $0.7M NZD. Financial data as at September 2025.
Mission: Mission: “To work towards an increase in the number of yellow-eyed penguins on a self-sustaining basis within their natural coastal ecosystem”
- Registration Number
- CC22822
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-04-10
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Environment
- Location
- Dunedin, Dunedin
- admin@yeptrust.org.nz
- Data as at
- September 2025
Beneficiaries: Animals, Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Older people, People with disabilities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.7M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.6M NZD
- Total Assets
- $1.8M NZD
- Net Assets
- $1.7M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 5
- Financial Year End
- 2025-09-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $1.7M |
| 2024 | $0.6M | $0.6M | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $0.4M | $0.7M | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $1.0M | $0.7M | $2.0M |
| 2021 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $1.7M |
| 2019 | $0.8M | $0.5M | $1.6M |
| 2018 | $0.7M | $0.4M | $1.3M |
| 2017 | $0.4M | $0.5M | $1.1M |
| 2016 | $0.5M | $0.5M | $1.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (11)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Abby Clarke Emerging Leader Trustee | 2019 | - |
| James Tweed Emerging Leader Trustee | 2019 | - |
| Meg Houseman Emerging Leader Trustee | 2019 | - |
| Janelle Wierenga | Trustee | 2026-03-31 |
| Eiren Sweetman | Co-Chair | 2025-09-01 |
| Dave MacFarlane | Trustee | 2025-09-01 |
| Daniel Whitburn | Trustee | 2025-02-25 |
| Tim Mepham | Trustee | 2013-04-23 |
| Hoani Langsbury | Trustee | 2012-04-24 |
| Euan Kennedy | Trustee | 1987-10-20 |
| Lala Frazer | Trustee | 1987-10-20 |
Former Officers (30)
- Sue Murray — Trustee (departed 2026-03-31)
- Angus Griffin — Trustee (departed 2025-08-31)
- Jenna Sinclair — Trustee (departed 2025-08-31)
- Vicki Crosbie — Trustee (departed 2026-03-31)
- Abby Clarke — Emerging Leader Trustee (2019) (departed 2023-10-13)
- Meg Houseman — Emerging Leader Trustee (2019) (departed 2022-03-22)
- James Tweed — Emerging Leader Trustee (2019) (departed 2021-06-22)
- Eleanor Linscott — Trustee (departed 2020-02-24)
- Helen Dent — Trustee (departed 2023-06-27)
- Olaf Nilsen — Trustee (departed 2023-06-30)
- Gina Watts — Emerging Leader Trustee 2016 (departed 2018-02-20)
- Linda Farrelly — Trustee (departed 2017-10-04)
- Caitlin Irwin — Emerging Leader Trustee 2014 (departed 2015-12-23)
- David Smith — Trustee (departed 2019-03-26)
- Murray Brass — Trustee (departed 2025-03-31)
- Luke Gardener — Trustee (departed 2016-12-13)
- Nigel Stirling — Trustee (departed 2015-07-01)
- Jesse James — Trustee (departed 2018-05-30)
- Linda Reynolds — Trustee (departed 2017-02-28)
- Mike Morrison — Trustee (departed 2014-04-29)
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Yellow-eyed Penguin Trust
Financial data as at September 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.)
How ratings work →$659.4K
$623.3K
$1.8M
5
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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Mission: “To work towards an increase in the number of yellow-eyed penguins on a self-sustaining basis within their natural coastal ecosystem”
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