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Charity Summary

Charity Details

Legal name of the Charity:

Gisborne Volunteer Centre

Registration number:

CC27533

NZBN number:

9429043125487

Current Status:

Registered

Registration details

Date of Registration:

30/06/2008

Balance Date:

June 30

Address for service

Charity's Postal Address:

Block 1, Shop 2, Treble Court Complex

25 Peel St

Gisborne

4010

Charity's other details

Phone:

(06)8684522

Email:

manager@gisbornevolunteercentre.org.nz

Website:

https://gisbornevolunteercentre.org.nz

Facebook:

Gisborne Volunteer Centre

Areas of Operation:

Gisborne

View Charity Link:

https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC27533

Purpose & Structure

Charitable Purpose

To provide support and assistance to volunteers, community welfare agencies and other volunteer-involving not-for profits organisations means of: a) Providing quality programmes of volunteer referral and recruitment to non-profit organisations. b) Assisting and educating non-profit organisations which use volunteers in how to train and manage them, to the benefit of both the organisation and the volunteer. c) Actively promoting the benefits of volunteer work. d) Advocating the rights and responsibilities of volunteers, and the recognition of their work. e) To increase the awareness of the availability and value of volunteers and volunteerism.

Note: The main sectors, activities and beneficiaries are bolded.

Activities:

Provides human resources (e.g. staff / volunteers)

Provides advice / information / advocacy, provides workshops

Sectors:

Promotion of volunteering

Education / training / research, Health, Environment / conservation, Social services, Employment, Religious activities, Arts / culture / heritage, Sport / recreation, Fund-raising, People with disabilities

Beneficiaries:

General public

Children / young people, Other charities, Voluntary bodies other than charities, Older people, Animals, People with disabilities, People of a certain ethnic / racial origin, Family / whanau, Migrants / refugees, Religious groups

Entity Structure

Trust Structure: Our Trust Deed states that we must have between five and ten Trustees. As at the 2020 AGM, we have six Trustees, including the Chairperson, Treasurer and Secretary. Operational Structure: We employ a manager, Volunteer Service Coordinator, Media and Communications Coordinator and an office administration support worker. We also have casual volunteers who help with various activities throughout the year.

Annual Returns

Annual Returns are due within 6 months of a charity’s balance date (financial year-end), or a longer period if an extension has been granted.

Due Date

Date Submitted

Total Income

Total Expenditure

Financial Statements

Annual Return Summary

31/12/2023

To be filed

31/12/2022

17/11/2022

$125,232

$124,663

31/12/2021

14/10/2021

$160,848

$136,432

31/12/2020

5/10/2020

$122,288

$121,070

31/12/2019

20/10/2019

$135,721

$141,791

31/12/2018

26/09/2018

$119,205

$107,191

31/12/2017

20/09/2017

$91,558

$94,066

31/12/2016

12/10/2016

$89,458

$84,543

31/12/2015

29/09/2015

$82,780

$91,855

31/12/2014

24/09/2014

$96,501

$77,470

Officer Details

Officers

Officer Name	Position	Effective Date
Laurence Guite	Youth Board Member	21/11/2022
Neil Smoker	Board Chairperson	21/11/2022
Ruby Rose Aitkenhead	Youth Board Member	21/11/2022
Hilary Pickering	Treasurer	27/09/2021
Katie Brown	Board member	27/09/2021
Amber Aitkenhead	Board Member	5/10/2020
Nicki Liversage	Board Member - Secretary	17/10/2019

Past Officers

Officer Name

Position

Past Since

Hemi (James) Phillip Houkamau

Chairperson

23/01/2023

Michael West

Secretary

30/06/2022

Brian Charles Cochrane

Treasurer

13/10/2021

Michelle Belinda Whitley

Deputy Chairperson

27/09/2021

Briar Hunter

Board member

30/06/2020

Lillian Jenner

Board Member - Youth Rep

17/10/2019

Brittany Marshall

Board Member

9/09/2019

James Jnr Aramoana

Trustee

9/09/2019

Murray Carl Pedersen

Chairperson

15/07/2019

Arish Naresh

Board Member

15/04/2019

Charity Updates

Here is a list of all the details changed by the charity, for example adding or removing officers, amending rules, changing balance dates or updating address details.

Date Created

Reference

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5/10/2023

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21/11/2022

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20/07/2022

NOC034

26/02/2020

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22/10/2019

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8/07/2019

NOC028

27/06/2019

NOC027

15/11/2018

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