Otautahi Creative Spaces Trust — Arts & Culture Charity in Christchurch
Otautahi Creative Spaces Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Christchurch, Christchurch. Annual revenue: $0.4M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: Ōtautahi Creative Spaces Trust's purpose is to provide people with mental distress with access to the life-changing power of creativity. Our goals are to empower people with mental distress to redefine their mental health journeys as practising artists; to build creative pathways within a peer arts community; and to ignite the aspirations of people with mental distress through creative resources. Through its' programmes the Trust aims to improve participants' wellbeing, social connection, community participation, cultural connection, family ties, independence and agency, work skills, prosperity, and resilience in face of adversity.
- Registration Number
- CC51702
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2015-04-24
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Christchurch, Christchurch
- kim@otautahicreativespaces.org.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Other - All
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.4M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.2M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.4M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.4M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 7
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.4M | $0.2M | $0.4M |
| 2024 | $0.2M | $0.3M | $0.2M |
| 2023 | $0.4M | $0.3M | $0.3M |
| 2022 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.3M |
| 2021 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.2M |
| 2020 | $0.3M | $0.2M | $0.3M |
| 2019 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.2M |
| 2018 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.3M | $0.2M | $0.2M |
| 2016 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (6)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Henrietta Read | Operations Manager | 2024-10-01 |
| Kim Morton | Strategic Director | 2024-10-01 |
| Andrea Heffernan | Trustee | 2022-11-15 |
| Reuben Woods | Trustee | 2021-08-17 |
| Kate Griffiths | Treasurer | 2017-03-18 |
| Beth Nobes | Trustee | 2015-03-24 |
Former Officers (13)
- Tāniora Maxwell — Trustee (departed 2024-06-18)
- Keren Oertly Ryan — Trustee (departed 2022-06-21)
- Sarah Campagnolo — Chair (departed 2022-05-30)
- Nicola Shirlaw — Trustee (departed 2018-11-20)
- Felicite Jardine — Trustee (departed 2020-08-27)
- Rachael Welfare — Trustee (departed 2021-10-28)
- Paula Pascoe — Trustee (departed 2017-06-15)
- Anne Cunningham — Trustee (departed 2018-05-15)
- Lautaimi (Nicky) Sofai — Trustee (departed 2016-08-19)
- Jane Mountier — Secretary (departed 2017-12-24)
- Kim Rigby — Trustee (departed 2015-06-01)
- Alisa Woodruff — Trustee (departed 2016-05-05)
- Lucy D'aeth — Chair (departed 2018-11-20)
Funding Sources
- The Tindall Foundation — $20,000
- Lion Foundation — $3,000
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Otautahi Creative Spaces Trust
Financial data as at December 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 6. 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
Ōtautahi Creative Spaces Trust's purpose is to provide people with mental distress with access to the life-changing power of creativity. Our goals are to empower people with mental distress to redefine their mental health journeys as practising artists; to build creative pathways within a peer arts community; and to ignite the aspirations of people with mental distress through creative resources. Through its' programmes the Trust aims to improve participants' wellbeing, social connection, community participation, cultural connection, family ties, independence and agency, work skills, prosperity, and resilience in face of adversity.
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Ranked against 109 peers · Arts & Culture · $100K – $1M
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