Mid-South Island Women's Refuge & Family Safety Services Incorporated

CC36213 · NZBN 9429042729594 · Timaru
Registered 30 Jun 2008 · Status: Registered · Latest return year: 2025 · Tier 2

Key facts: Mid-South Island Women's Refuge & Family Safety Services Incorporated is a registered New Zealand charity (CC36213), reporting latest gross income of NZ$2.0M and total expenditure of NZ$1.8M for the year ended 2025.

To work towards the prevention and elimination of violence and in particular to support the rights of adults and children to care and protection. To provide: • Community Advocacy • Residential Services - Safe emergency, temporary accommodation • Domestic Violence Education programmes for adults and tamariki children • Family Support and Advocacy Services for vulnerable, at risk, families and individuals • Services to isolated, rural women and children suffering, experiencing or witnessing violence and abuse • Sexual Abuse Specialists for victims of sexual abuse - crisis and historical • Ministry of Justice Safety Services for protected adults and children • Integrated Safety Response - Family Harm Practitioners responding to high and low risk victims • Public Awareness - Family Violence Training • Court support specialist services to provide information, advocacy, psycho-social support that survivors require through the criminal justice system

Register-noted indicators

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NZ$2.0M
Gross income
NZ$1.8M
Expenditure
NZ$3.3M
Total assets
NZ$3.0M
Total equity

Income vs expenditure

Each year from the charity's annual returns. The top bar is money coming in, the bar below is money spent.

Income  Expenditure
2018
NZ$627K
NZ$564K
2019
NZ$697K
NZ$666K
2020
NZ$960K
NZ$789K
2021
NZ$1.7M
NZ$980K
2022
NZ$1.5M
NZ$1.1M
2023
NZ$1.9M
NZ$1.2M
2024
NZ$2.0M
NZ$1.6M
2025
NZ$2.0M
NZ$1.8M
All data sourced verbatim from the Charities Register (Charities Services). CharitiesWatch NZ does not assert wrongdoing. © 2026 CharitiesWatch NZ.