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Charity Summary

Charity Details

Legal name of the Charity:

The Ostler's Gardens Charitable Trust

Registration number:

CC56859

NZBN number:

N/A

Current Status:

Registered

Registration details

Date of Registration:

12/08/2019

Balance Date:

March 31

Address for service

Charity's Postal Address:

Cnr Broadway & Fenton Street

PO Box 190

Stratford

4352

Charity's other details

Phone:

0210630632

Email:

ostlersgardensct@gmail.com

Website:

https://ostlersgardensct.org.nz/

Areas of Operation:

Taranaki

Organisation with a focus on the following communities:

N/A

View Charity Link:

https://www.register.charities.govt.nz/Charity/CC56859

Purpose & Structure

Charitable Purpose

To maintain, preserve, enhance and continue the gardens and adjoining farmlands known as "Ostler's Gardens" as gardens and recreational areas for all persons having an interest in such gardens and to provide sanctuary for bird life. And further includes a) Co-operating with any other person or persons both service institution, company, corporation, club society, statutory body or government department in order to promote, achieve, support or maintain any of the foregoing activities. b) Publications of books, manuscripts, journals, bulletins, circulars, newsletters or any other publications in order to promote, support or maintain any of the foregoing activities, and c) Doing such other lawful acts and things as are incidental to or conductive to the attainment of the foregoing activities. d) Making available scholarships to persons wanting to undertake horticultural studies. e) Supporting people undertaking apprenticeships in the horticultural industry f) The Trustees of the trust work

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

Activities:

Makes grants to organisations (including schools or other charities)

Provides buildings / facilities / open space

Sectors:

Education / training / research

Environment / conservation, Arts / culture / heritage

Beneficiaries:

General public

Entity Structure

We currently have six Trustees that constitute our governance board.

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.

Note: Charities that use the Tier 4 Combined Form to file their annual returns do not need to file their financial statements separately. The financial statements are included in their annual return summary.

For Year Ended	Due Date	Date Submitted	Total Income	Total Expenditure	Financial Statements	Annual Return Summary
31/03/2026	30/09/2026	-	-	-	To be filed	To be filed
31/03/2025	30/09/2025	9/09/2025	$0	$99,028	Included in Annual Return
31/03/2024	30/09/2024	21/08/2024	$92,329	$21,706	Included in Annual Return
31/03/2023	30/09/2023	17/08/2023	$656	$26,568	Included in Annual Return
31/03/2022	30/09/2022	30/08/2022	$549	$26,793	Included in Annual Return
31/03/2021	30/09/2021	9/08/2021	$5,236	$42,630	Included in Annual Return
31/03/2020	30/09/2020	21/08/2020	$259,503	$38,380	Included in Annual Return

Officer Details

Officers

Officer Name	Position	Effective Date
Lauree Anne Jones	Trustee	20/11/2024
David John Dent	Trustee	15/12/2023
Jodie Patricia Sullivan	Trustee	24/08/2022
Neil Charles Volzke	Trustee	3/11/2020
Jillian Ethel Williams	Trustee	20/08/2020
Peter Douglas Death	Trustee	12/02/2019
Brian Robert Jeffares	Trustee	15/05/2006
Roderick Ian Gordon	Trustee	15/05/2006

Past Officers

Officer Name	Position	Past Since
Colin William Morrison	Trustee	11/05/2022
Gordon Ronald Astwood	Trustee	31/07/2020

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	View Summary (.pdf <1MB)
30/08/2022	NOC004

Charity Documents

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