Featherston Booktown Trust — Arts & Culture Charity in Featherston
Featherston Booktown Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Featherston, Featherston. Annual revenue: $0.4M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The charitable objects and purposes of the Trust ( the Trust purposes) are as follows: (a) To promote literature and literacy through the celebration of books; (b) To work with local and national and international writers, artisans, collectors, academics and others associated with the artefact of the book in order to celebrate and promote reading and books in general; (c) To organise and host, through lectures, workshops, exhibitions and discussions, a range of artistic opportunities for writers, artists, artisans, performers and the wider community; (d) To meet the above purposes and provide an enduring cultural benefit to Featherston and the wider community by hosting an annual festival inFeatherston ("Featherston Booktown") which will bring together people working with and interested in books and reading; (e) To encourage the young people of Featherston and the wider community to identify with books and reading by way of participation in regular Featherston Booktown events.
- Registration Number
- CC52369
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2015-06-26
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Featherston, Featherston
- craig.linkhorn@cliftonchambers.co.nz
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Older people
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.4M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.4M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.1M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 3
- Volunteers
- 2
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.1M |
| 2024 | $0.5M | $0.4M | $0.2M |
| 2023 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.0M |
| 2022 | $0.3M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2021 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.0M |
| 2020 | $0.1M | $0.1M | - |
| 2019 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2017 | $0.0M | $0.0M | - |
| 2016 | $0.0M | $0.0M | - |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (8)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Jordan Hamel | Director | 2025-09-03 |
| Penny Griffin | Trustee | 2024-09-29 |
| Darrin Goulding | Treasurer and Trustee | 2022-09-11 |
| Craig Linkhorn | Secretary and Trustee | 2021-08-22 |
| David Adams | Trustee and Bookseller Representative | 2021-05-30 |
| Mary Mccallum | Trustee | 2020-08-30 |
| Elizabeth Mellish | Trustee | 2018-03-18 |
| Peter Biggs | Chair | 2015-05-16 |
Former Officers (11)
- Christine Ammunson — Trustee. (departed 2026-10-04)
- Cheryl Gallaway — Trustee (departed 2023-08-21)
- Julie Lewis — Accounts Manager (departed 2023-08-31)
- Lesley Christian — Treasurer (departed 2022-09-11)
- Noelle McCarthy — Trustee (departed 2022-12-21)
- Catherine Mead — Trustee (departed 2021-06-27)
- Paul Broughton — Trustee (departed 2018-07-01)
- Ross Vickery — Trustee (departed 2021-06-27)
- Peter Monk — Trustee (departed 2020-08-30)
- Mary-Elizabeth Biggs — Operations Manager (departed 2026-08-31)
- Lincoln Gould — Trustee/chair (departed 2017-08-22)
Funding Sources
- Lion Foundation — $40,000
- Lion Foundation — $40,000
- Trust House Foundation — $40,000
- Lion Foundation — $29,000
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Featherston Booktown Trust
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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The charitable objects and purposes of the Trust ( the Trust purposes) are as follows: (a) To promote literature and literacy through the celebration of books; (b) To work with local and national and international writers, artisans, collectors, academics and others associated with the artefact of the book in order to celebrate and promote reading and books in general; (c) To organise and host, through lectures, workshops, exhibitions and discussions, a range of artistic opportunities for writers, artists, artisans, performers and the wider community; (d) To meet the above purposes and provide an enduring cultural benefit to Featherston and the wider community by hosting an annual festival inFeatherston ("Featherston Booktown") which will bring together people working with and interested in books and reading; (e) To encourage the young people of Featherston and the wider community to identify with books and reading by way of participation in regular Featherston Booktown events.
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