Reflecting on the 2024-2025 financial year

We are proud to report on the team’s operational activities and achievements over the 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 period.

The 2024-2025 financial year saw Good Shepherd New Zealand:

• delivering services to thousands of women, girls and their families experiencing harm and hardship
• raising awareness of social issues causing harm and hardship, and driving improvements to systems that hold people back
• strengthening our capability, profile, and infrastructure, so we can make even more impact in the year to come.

It has always been a privilege to support individuals, families and communities, and we’re encouraged by the effect our services have in wider society. Analysis this year shows just how much better off everyone can be when women are safe, strong, well and connected. For example, for every dollar invested in our Family Violence Economic Harm support service, we create over $11 of social impact for New Zealand – ie, savings in healthcare, the justice system and the economy.

Our efforts brought new opportunities to reduce pressure and harm for women. Importantly, we gained support of two new funders to design and deliver a service for single older women experiencing financial barriers to housing. Given the long-term impact of gender inequities earlier in life, and the hidden problem of women’s homelessness, we are excited about what this new service might enable.

In addition to our work locally, we continued to tighten connections with Good Shepherd in Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The opportunity to leverage strengths in each country will mean even more local impact. A new governance structure will bolster this enduring and vital relationship, honouring an important connection for the Sisters and mission.  

The Sisters of the Good Shepherd have supported women and girls in New Zealand for around 140 years. We acknowledge their commitment to mission, their ongoing work and their legacy. We are deeply grateful to our incredible team and the extended governance group supporting their work. Ultimate recognition belongs to the women, girls and families we serve, whose determination and integrity spurs us on.  Our work and impact from 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025 is summarised in the 2024-2025 Year in Review.