Not for profit social enterprise
All profits of Tui Balms that are not used to develop the business are donated to NZ registered charitable trusts (at least 5% of all sales). The range of charities receiving our donations has been extensive and 23 charities benefited from our turnover in the 2022/23 financial year. This year we were able to donate a total of $58,908.
Tui Balms also supports various charitable organisations by providing free product. We regularly support kindergarten and primary school fundraisers by sending them product for their raffles, and donate Baby Balm to organisations offering packs for families in need, e.g. The Nest Collective, It Takes A Village, and the neo-natal wards around NZ.
$777,996
donated since 2003
Benefiting many
Organisations receiving financial donations in 2023 included:
- Tui Spiritual & Educational Trust – fostering and promoting healthy communities in NZ
- Rites of Passage Foundation – providing rites of passage & leadership training in NZ for teenage/young men & women
- Earthcare Education Aotearoa – enlivening community through permaculture and deep ecology
- St John Ambulance – at the frontline of medical response, providing Ambulance Services throughout New Zealand
- Wilderland Trust – an exciting collectively managed educational project operating on the Coromandel Peninsula
- Nelson-Marlborough Rescue Helicopter
- Golden Bay Toy Library
- Golden Bay Community Gardens – Golden Bay’s only community-centered organic gardens, dedicated to building resilience and sustainability in our region
- Golden Bay Friends Of Nepal – providing relief to local Nepali friends, families and communities needing help after the destructive 2015 earthquakes
- Riverside Community Trust – established in 1941 by a small group of Christian Pacifists to practice ways of communal living that are based on cooperation and sustainability and the repudiation of war
- Golden Bay Mountain Bike Club – active and ongoing track-building and maintenance in Golden Bay
- Golden Bay / Nelson Women’s Refuge – providing education programmes and support services, information and safe housing to women, young people and children experiencing abuse
- The Aunties – sharing power, knowledge, passion, and resources with whānau who have lived in violence
- Yoga Education in Prison Trust – providing yoga & meditation education to prisoners in prisons in New Zealand
- Fossil Creek Farm Trust
- Friends of Mangarakau Swamp – Regenerating the largest remaining wetland in the Nelson/Marlborough region
- SPCA – Protecting animals who are sick, injured, abused or abandoned
- New Zealand Poetry Society – Supporting and promoting poets and poetry in New Zealand
- HUHA, Helping You Help Animals – New Zealand’s leading no-kill animal shelter
