Sophia Street Car Park Charitable Trust — Social Services Charity in Timaru
Sophia Street Car Park Charitable Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Social Services sector, based in Timaru, Timaru. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $0.1M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The trust holds the fund both as to capital and income upon trust for such religious educational and other charitable purposes within New Zealand as the board shall from time to time determine
- Registration Number
- CC48089
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2012-04-05
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Social Services
- Location
- Timaru, Timaru
- psmithy@xtra.co.nz
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (charitable_trust)
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Other charities, Religious groups
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 4
- Volunteers
- 1
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.1M | $0.1M | - |
| 2024 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.4M |
| 2023 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.3M |
| 2022 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $0.3M |
| 2021 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.3M |
| 2020 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $0.2M |
| 2019 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.2M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $0.2M |
| 2017 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $0.1M |
| 2016 | $0.1M | $0.0M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (1)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| David Gregory Darling | Trustee | 2011-12-05 |
Former Officers (14)
- Gary Wakefield — Trustee
- Matthew Miller — Trustee
- Alexander Solomon — Trustee
- Paul Johnston — Chairman/trustee
- John McAra — Trustee (departed 2021-03-30)
- Peter Smith — Secretary/trustee
- Sydney Bennett — Secretary (departed 2021-09-27)
- Beresford Mitchell — Trustee (departed 2022-02-15)
- Jonathan Steven — Trustee (departed 2017-03-03)
- Ian Mccone — Trustee (departed 2014-09-25)
- Arthur Wilson — Trustee (departed 2014-03-12)
- Andrew Donehue — Trustee (departed 2023-09-22)
- Bruce Mc Duff — Trustee (departed 2020-06-12)
- John Taggart — Trustee
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Sophia Street Car Park Charitable Trust
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
This entity is registered as a charity but functions as a property, trading, or investment vehicle held by a service-delivering parent (a church, school, hospital, professional association, or similar). Its purpose is to hold or trade assets on the parent's behalf — not to deliver programs to public beneficiaries on its own books. The standard charity rating template (program-vs-administration split, reserve-months, fundraising efficiency) doesn't apply at the subsidiary level — those signals are meaningful at the parent level. A letter grade is withheld here rather than producing a misleading F driven by template-fit. Look up the parent charity by name for its rating.
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About
The trust holds the fund both as to capital and income upon trust for such religious educational and other charitable purposes within New Zealand as the board shall from time to time determine
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