Updated 13 April 2021 DIA Charities advise that “Te Tari Taiwhenua Department of Internal Affairs (the Department) is resuming targeted engagement with the charitable sector and other interested parties to inform advice to the Minister for the Community and Voluntary Sector on detailed legislative amendments to the Charities Act.” Full Read more…
Charities in New Zealand – A Legal Handbook ParryField Lawyers are active in the non-profit sector and have recently published a legal handbook for charities. The handbook has sections on: Establishing your charity Operating Your charity Other legal issues Appendices on Impact Investing and Social Enterprises The handbook complements other Read more…
Steven Moe of ParryField Lawyers has published an article with the above title. It came out of a presentation he made at a “Religion and the Law” event last year. The article starts: In a gentle way, you can shake the world. – Mahatma Ghandi Governance for faith based organisations Read more…
Updated 14 Feb 2021 Steven Moe of ParryField facilitated a discussion session on the topic of Fund Holding to gain perspectives and to then create a white paper on this topic explaining what the issues are, as well as the answers (we hope). The Situation: A group of people want to Read more…
Q: Our chairman is not transparent and makes decisions without even discussing with the other board members. Is this in line with the role of the chair? A: We cannot comment on specific cases, but the role of the chairman is covered in a number of resources (see, for example Read more…
ParryField lawyers are well known in the charities field. On 1 December 2020, the new Privacy Act comes into force. One of the significant changes is the requirement to report serious breaches to the Privacy Commissioner and the affected individuals. Towards the end of last year they published a blog Read more…
LEAD – Centre for Not for Profit Governance and Leadership is currently undertaking a survey of NFP and community organisations’ Boards seeking to find out what good governance looks like in Aotearoa New Zealand. Read more about the survey here: https://www.lead.org.nz/news/2020/11/15/non-profit-and-community-governance-survey
The Charities Services 2019/2020 Annual Review includes the following statistics: 27,864 Registered NZ Charities 108,244 charity officers 200 groups 140,000 people work in the charity sector (5% of NZ workforce) 235,000 volunteers, 1.6 million hrs/year Sector has $65.03 billion in assets Sector expenditure $18.02 billion Sector income $19.6 billion Size Read more…
DIA Charities Services have published their 2019/2020 Annual Review. “It outlines the work we’ve done this year and our key priorities for the year ahead. We also showcase information about the charitable sector, highlighting the important mahi (work) charities do.” Topics covered include: The Charities Act The year in number Read more…
The NFP Website was recently updated to WordPress version 5.5. In endeavouring to update some of the content it became apparent that while the website was apparently running well, the updating process was damaged. Fortunately we stumbled across a blog post on the WPHost website which suggested a fix to the Read more…
Engage a FREE University Student Team to Create Your 2021 Marketing Strategy The Australian Charity Guide advises of a “Fantastic Opportunity Open to all Australian and NZ Charities/NFP’s” – applications close 1 December 2020 The Global Scope is a student employability program endorsed by the NSW Government and delivered by Read more…
We have started a new non-profit group and realise that we need to develop some formal policies. Can you point us towards a resource which may help? Platform | Atamira has published a very useful library of policies templates. While primarily aimed at mental health service providers, many of the Read more…