Whirinaki Whare Taonga — Arts & Culture Charity in Upper Hutt
Whirinaki Whare Taonga is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt. Annual revenue: $1.4M NZD. Financial data as at June 2026.
Mission: To build social cohesion and improve citizen wellbeing through engaging, enriching, inspiring and connecting people with arts, culture and events in the Upper Hutt community.
- Registration Number
- CC25076
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-05-29
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Upper Hutt, Upper Hutt
- director@whirinakiarts.org.nz
- Data as at
- June 2026
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Voluntary bodies other than charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $1.4M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $1.4M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.4M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 13
- Financial Year End
- 2026-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $0.4M |
| 2025 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $0.4M |
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $0.1M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $0.4M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $0.4M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.3M | $0.4M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $2.2M | $0.4M |
| 2019 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $0.3M |
| 2018 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $0.3M |
| 2017 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $0.3M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (7)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Kimberley Polata-Ahotolu | Trustee | 2026-07-01 |
| Anne Joyce | Trustee | 2026-07-01 |
| Sanket Palshikar | Trustee | 2025-10-20 |
| Sally-ann Moffat | Trusteee | 2025-07-01 |
| Alicia Rosevear | Trustee | 2024-11-21 |
| Stephen Ward | Deputy Chair | 2024-07-01 |
| Zoe Juniper | Chair | 2017-08-01 |
Former Officers (17)
- Tania Jones — Trustee (departed 2026-06-30)
- Angele Toomey — Trustee (departed 2025-06-30)
- Tim Thorpe — Trustee (departed 2025-06-30)
- Emma Chatterton — Trustee (departed 2026-06-30)
- Angela Calkin Goeres — Trustee (departed 2023-06-30)
- David Irving — Trustee (departed 2017-09-21)
- Graeme Talbot — Trustee (departed 2024-07-01)
- Martin Goodyear — Trustees (departed 2022-06-30)
- Terry McCaul — Trustees (departed 2023-06-30)
- Margaret Vlassoff — Trustee (departed 2017-04-03)
- Peter Lowry — Trustee (departed 2014-06-06)
- James Sherwin — Trustee (departed 2014-06-06)
- Frank Stevenson — Truastee (departed 2011-01-27)
- Virginia Francis — Trustee (departed 2009-02-23)
- Owen Anderson — Trustee (departed 2022-06-30)
- Peter Richardson — Trustee-Chairman (departed 2022-06-30)
- Barry Houston — Trustee (departed 2017-03-06)
Funding Sources
- Trust House Foundation — $35,000
- Lion Foundation — $10,000
- Pub Charity Limited — $5,000
- Pelorus Trust — $4,600
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Whirinaki Whare Taonga
Financial data as at June 2026. 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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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2026). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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To build social cohesion and improve citizen wellbeing through engaging, enriching, inspiring and connecting people with arts, culture and events in the Upper Hutt community.
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