Ref: 229166
29 May 2024
Erika Whittome
By email to <[FYI request #26800 email]>
Tēnā koe Erika
Response to your request for Official Information
1. On 14 May 2024, you requested the following information from Te Kāhui Tika Tangata |
Human Rights Commission (“the Commission”) under the Official Information Act (“OIA”):
The HRC annual financial report of 2022 has about $70k of income from donations.
Would you please share the information on who donated to the HRC in 2024, 2023
and 2022?
I would like the info on the donation amount and name of the donor or registered
society/entity who donated to the HRC
2. On 21 May 2024 you clarified that you were referring to the amount noted on page 65 of the
Commission’s 2022/23 Annual Report which stated: “Programmes and projects include grants
of $70,000.”
3. On 21 May 2024 you further requested:
Thank you for pointing out your annual report. There are grants and “other revenue”.
Please provide information on who gave the “other revenue “. For example in the 2023
annual report there is $220k of “other revenue”.
Grants received by the Commission
4. I have clarified with our Finance team that the grants amounting to $70,000, referred to on
page 65 of the 2022/23 Annual Report, were paid by the Commission to other organisations.
However, the Finance team were also able to provide some information on funding that the
Commission has received from other organisations. (You will have seen
in our annual reports
that the Commission is primarily funded by revenue received from the Crown through the
Ministry of Justice.)
5. Between 2022 and 2024 the Commission received:
• $38,700 from Te Puna Aonui, a joint venture formed in 2018 to improve the whole-
of-government approach to family Violence and sexual violence.
• $10,000 from Tauranga City Council for the Commission’s Whakamana Hapori
Tauranga Programme.
• $400,000 from the Ministry of Social Development for Project Mobilise.
PO Box 6751, Victoria Street West,
Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland 1142 | PO Box 10424,
Te Whanganui a Tara Wellington 6143
Infoline Toll free 0800 496 877 TTY +64 21 0236 4253 Waea Whakaahua Facsimile +64 9 377 3593
[email address] www.tikatangata.org.nz
• $25,000 from the Borrin Foundation to support the conference on constitutional
transformation.
• $10,000 from the Rule Foundation and $40,000 from the Borrin Foundation for the
Rainbow Conference held in November 2023.
6. These amounts were all connected with the delivery of particular projects or events.
7. We also received some funding for the secondment of a Legal Advisor to the Royal
Commission of Inquiry on Abuse in Care, paid by the Department of Internal Affairs on behalf
of the Royal Commission.
Other revenue
8. The amount of $220,000 listed as “other revenue” in 2022, set out on page 64 of our 2022/23
Annual report, consists of:
• $20,000 consisting of costs awarded against a respondent at a hearing in the Human
Rights Review Tribunal.
• $200,000 from Te Puni Kōkiri | Ministry of Māori Development to support development
services for the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Draft
Declaration Plan.
Alternative avenues
9. If you are unhappy with this response, under the Official Information Act you are entitled to
complain to the Ombudsman’s Office. Information about how to make a complaint is available
at www.ombudsman.parliament.nz or on freephone 0800 802 602.
10. If you have any further queries about this response, please feel free to contact me.
Nāku noa, nā
Brittany Peck
Kaitohu Ture | Legal Advisor
