Safeguarding Children Initiative — Education Charity in Nelson
Safeguarding Children Initiative is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Nelson, Nelson. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $0.8M NZD. Financial data as at March 2025.
Mission: Safeguarding Children Initiative is a charitable organisation which aims to reduce child abuse & neglect in New Zealand by: -Delivering evidence-based seminar and training to empower those working with children & communities to protect children & young people. -Safeguarding Community/ Safe Communities - Safer Children - work with community organisations to increase their culture of child protection, capacity, systems, & workforce development. -Elearning- New Zealand's first & only child protection elearning. Using information Technology to improve access to vital child protection training across the nation. -Our courses are delivered to suit everyone's busy schedules & learning needs: elearning courses, recorded webinar training, live webinar training, face to face seminars or bespoke training on request -Prevention strategies -Advocacy for children and young people at a local & national level.
- Registration Number
- CC49059
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2013-04-19
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Nelson, Nelson
- Website
- https://www.safeguardingchildren.org.nz
- office@safeguardingchildren.org.nz
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (other)
- Data as at
- March 2025
Beneficiaries: Animals, Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Migrants / refugees, Older people, People with disabilities, Religious groups, Voluntary bodies other than charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.8M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.8M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.5M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 10
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-03-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.8M | $0.8M | $0.5M |
| 2024 | $0.6M | $0.7M | $0.5M |
| 2023 | $0.5M | $0.5M | $0.5M |
| 2022 | $0.7M | $0.5M | $0.5M |
| 2021 | $0.6M | $0.4M | $0.3M |
| 2020 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.3M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
| 2016 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (23)
- Colin Usherwood — Trustee
- Nicholas McDonnell — Trustee
- Willow Duffy — CEO
- Nathan Davis — Trustee
- Jordan Lankshear — Trustee (departed 2024-04-28)
- Graeme Thomas — Trustee (departed 2024-12-13)
- Timothy Houston — Trustee
- Lisa Jennings — Trustee
- Brendon Silcock — Trustee (departed 2025-08-28)
- Koren Grason — Trustee (departed 2022-02-27)
- Julia McCarthy — Trustee (departed 2020-07-04)
- Paul Rosanowski — Trustee (departed 2022-08-01)
- Mark Shadwick — Trustee (departed 2018-06-20)
- Helen Watson — Trustee (departed 2019-11-21)
- ChristinE Palmer — Trustee (departed 2021-10-26)
- Christine Meade — Trustee
- Lisa Dunn — Trustee (departed 2016-12-20)
- Geoffrey Mullen — Trustee (departed 2018-05-26)
- Keith Marshall — Trustee (departed 2016-12-20)
- Annette Milligan — Trustee (departed 2021-11-25)
Funding Sources
- Pub Charity Limited — $29,730.2
- The Lion Foundation — $6,000
- Lion Foundation — $5,000
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Safeguarding Children Initiative
Financial data as at March 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.)
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- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 8. 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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Funder Profile
GrantmakerThis organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
About
Safeguarding Children Initiative is a charitable organisation which aims to reduce child abuse & neglect in New Zealand by: -Delivering evidence-based seminar and training to empower those working with children & communities to protect children & young people. -Safeguarding Community/ Safe Communities - Safer Children - work with community organisations to increase their culture of child protection, capacity, systems, & workforce development. -Elearning- New Zealand's first & only child protection elearning. Using information Technology to improve access to vital child protection training across the nation. -Our courses are delivered to suit everyone's busy schedules & learning needs: elearning courses, recorded webinar training, live webinar training, face to face seminars or bespoke training on request -Prevention strategies -Advocacy for children and young people at a local & national level.
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Ranked against 132 peers · Education · $100K – $1M
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