Help Us

Quick info to donate:

Our bank account is

Andromeda Arts Trust
06-0807-0965911-00

Email kris@littleandromeda.co.nz to ask for a receipt from the charitable trust for a 33% IRD rebate at tax time.

Alternatively our Givealittle account if you want to use a credit card.

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Why we need your help:

Little A is a creative theatre and like every other creative theatre in the country, there isn't really a stand-alone business case to be made. This isn’t about scale or quality of work. There is no professional theatre in the country that is not subsidised. Our community theatres are subsidised by the free labour of their membership.

Our beautiful country has both passionate audiences, and skilled, talented makers of theatre. As Andromeda is committed to passing on as much of the income generated by artists back to artists, we rely on funding, sponsorship, and donations to meet the shortfall in our operational costs so we can keep bringing over 300 live performances per year to Ōtautahi by local and national artists.

All up, we need to raise about $250,000 per year on top of our general ticket and bar income. This is to pay the rent on our spectacularly-convenient, central-city location, and the living wages of a tiny team of multi-skill, multi-role administrator/artists who keep the shows coming in and the place ticking over…

…and run our artist development programme… and provide a technician to every show free of charge… and make our space available to the arts community for meetings, workshops, and rehearsals… and regularly provide free or koha training, upskilling, or information sharing events to artists… and keep pushing ourselves to make the Andromeda experience as accessible and equitable as possible… and…

…and, while we tend to get close to this with the assistance that we receive from Creative NZ and Christchurch City Council, and the one off investment from Ministry of Culture and Heritage that we received in 2023, we still have a shortfall of about $50,000 each year.

And while that’s not a huge piece of the whole pie… it’s still a big piece of pie.

We know that, as a general rule, our audiences and artists aren’t rich. We wear that as a badge of honour - we’re keeping it real, yo! - and it’s our pleasure and purpose to be presenting quality shows that are accessible and within reach of everybody.

But, you can still help us…

• You might work for a large corporate organisation looking to associate itself with cool, fun stuff
• You might know someone who is interested in the arts and philanthropy.
• You - or a friend - might need to offset a ridiculous upcoming tax bill with a massive charitable donation.

You might know someone we don't. And, if you’d be willing to facilitate an introduction, we can make it worth their while.

We've got 14,000 customers a year that we can put a brand in front of and we're spectacularly good at entertaining staff and clients (ask us how!)

Do they want their name on a chair? What about a bar? What about every piece of collateral the theatre produces? We have options available.

So, if you want to talk about getting into bed with us, or you’d like to introduce us to someone we should get in bed with, give Michael a call on 021 223 6693 or an email to michael@littleandromeda.co.nz

We’re hunting big fish, but if you just want to make a simple personal donation, thank you so much.

Every small amount is genuinely appreciated and does help out.

Our bank account is

Andromeda Arts Trust
06-0807-0965911-00

You can email kris@littleandromeda.co.nz and we'd be happy to issue you a receipt - because we're a charity, you can claim a third of your donation back at the end of the tax year.

We've also just reactivated our Givealittle account if you'd prefer to just simply donate with a credit card there! There are some minor transaction fees involved there, especially just worth considering if you're looking at a more significant donation that might be better done as a bank transfer as per above.

We want to keep Little Andromeda operating for years to come, bringing accessible arts to everyone in a cool, creative, central location.

We aren’t shy about asking, so please don’t be shy about answering.

Let us know if you can help us out