Bluff Oyster and Food Festival Charitable Trust — Community Development Charity in Bluff
Bluff Oyster and Food Festival Charitable Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Community Development sector, based in Bluff, Bluff. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $0.3M NZD. Financial data as at September 2024.
Mission: To run an annual Oyster Festival which allows local not-for-profit organisations to raise funds for their groups. To own and maintain a venue for the wider community to utilise for varying events.
- Registration Number
- CC39569
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2009-04-27
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Community Development
- Location
- Bluff, Bluff
- Website
- http://www.bluffoysterfest.co.nz
- treasurer.bluffoysterfestival@gmail.com
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (charitable_trust)
- Data as at
- September 2024
Beneficiaries: General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.3M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.7M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.9M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.6M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2024-09-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $0.3M | $0.7M | $0.6M |
| 2023 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.9M |
| 2022 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $1.0M |
| 2021 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $1.0M |
| 2020 | - | $0.0M | $1.0M |
| 2019 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $1.0M |
| 2018 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.9M |
| 2017 | $0.3M | $0.2M | $0.7M |
| 2016 | $0.3M | $0.1M | $0.7M |
| 2015 | $0.3M | $0.2M | $0.5M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (16)
- Leanne Blair — Trustee/secretary
- Mary Rees — Trustee
- Walter Rees — Trustee
- Catherine Culling — Secretary/trustee (departed 2025-06-18)
- Michael Strongman — Trustee
- Patricia Rowe — Trustee
- Murray Thomson — Trustee (departed 2016-12-01)
- Robert Bowen — Trustee (departed 2015-03-04)
- Linda Bell — Trustee (departed 2016-12-01)
- Spencer Morrison — Trustee (departed 2016-12-01)
- Helen Fowler — Trustee (departed 2025-06-18)
- Michael Bradshaw — Trustee
- Alan Mitchell — Trustee (departed 2012-05-23)
- John King — Trustee (departed 2014-03-11)
- Rosemarie Coyle — Trustee
- John Edminstin — Chairperson / Trustee
Funding Sources
- The Lion Foundation — $15,000
- Lion Foundation — $10,000
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Bluff Oyster and Food Festival Charitable Trust
Financial data as at September 2024. 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.)
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To run an annual Oyster Festival which allows local not-for-profit organisations to raise funds for their groups. To own and maintain a venue for the wider community to utilise for varying events.
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