Help us help the community
Dance & Arts Therapy NZ is a charity making a difference to the lives of thousands of Kiwis each year. Since 2013, we’ve helped more than 18,000 people using creative-based therapies. This powerful form of therapy enhances a person’s physical, mental and emotional wellbeing.
We support tamariki and adults - with a focus on people with disabilities, mental health challenges, at-risk communities and survivors of sexual trauma. More and more people are needing our help, and we don’t have enough funding to provide these essential services. To continue supporting the community, we need your help. Together, we can have a significant impact.
DTNZ is a Registered Charitable Trust and your donation is tax deductible.
Friends of DTNZ
Friends of DTNZ is a regular giving initiative that helps empower our deserving clients. Your donation means we can offer group and individual therapy programmes throughout the country - now and in the future.
Here’s how a regular contribution helps*
- $5 per month: Purchases various therapeutic equipment/materials
- $10 per month: Pays for a dance therapy session for adults with special needs
- $20 per month: Provides a child with a disability group therapy for a term
- $50 per month: Covers three teenagers for a term of mental health support
- $100 per month: Enables a group of children with autism and related disorders to attend clinical arts therapy for three months
*over the course of 12 months
If you’d like to become a regular donor, sign up at https://givealittle.co.nz/donate/org/dancetherapynz.
We accept credit card, debit card and automatic payments. As a registered charitable trust, your donation is tax deductible.
To make a one off or regular donation:
You can donate here or make a deposit into our Kiwibank account. If you'd like to create a regular donation, please create an automatic payment via online banking using the details below:
Kiwibank account details:
- Name: Dance Therapy NZ
- Number: 38-9015-0417395-00
- Reference: Use your name and ‘donation’
If you'd like a receipt, please email info@dancetherapy.co.nz.
Donate Goods or services
We always appreciate any offers of in-kind support.
If you're able to donate art materials, furniture, stationery etc, please contact us so we can work with you to collect the donation.
If you are interested in donating your time, we often need support with administrative or marketing activities such as updating our website, accounting duties. We also welcome programme volunteers into many of our therapy groups.
Give us a call on (09) 636 3029 or email info@dancetherapy.co.nz if you can help us.
Leave a Gift in your Will
Humans are born with the capacity to respond and find joy in creative expression. It is out of this innate responsiveness that art and dance therapy were founded. Would you like to leave a bequest to help change the life of a child or adult through dance or art?
How would a bequest help DTNZ?
As DTNZ receives no statutory funding to support the work we do, a bequest from you will make a permanent difference to the people DTNZ supports including those with high needs or facing major life challenges - and you can decide how you would like your gift to be used. Here are some of the ways your gift could work:
- support a child or teen with special needs to have weekly group dance therapy sessions for six months or longer
- enable an adult attend a dance therapy programme in the community
- provide workshops to parents of children with special needs attending mainstream schools
- support a group of high needs, at risk students to receive art therapy at school to prevent violence, bullying and suicide
- pay for registrations and costs for attendance at arts therapy or dance therapy conferences
- cover the cost of supervision for our therapy team
- purchase art materials or dance movement equipment
- pay for venues at one of our outreach dance or art therapy locations for six months
- help cover our operational costs
If you'd like to talk to someone about leaving a bequest, please contact us on 09 360 0889 or email info@dancetherapy.co.nz.
In preparing your Will, we recommend you seek assistance of a Trustee (such as the Public Trust or NZ Guardian Trust) or your family solicitor to ensure that your wishes are clearly and correctly recorded.
Become a volunteer
Our volunteers assist us in a variety of ways and are incredibly important to what we do. We're grateful to anyone who wants to volunteer their time. We always need help with administration and marketing support, and welcome programme volunteers into many of our therapy groups.
Administration volunteers
We ask for a work commitment of at least six months and will provide relevant training and support. This may be helpful if you're transitioning to paid work and to those who are able to give their time to a worthy cause. We welcome applications from people who have an excellent grasp of English and computer skills.
Programme volunteers
Programme volunteers need to make a firm commitment to work with us for a minimum of two terms (6 months) and must go through an intake procedure as they will be interacting with our clients.
How to volunteer
If you'd like to volunteer please email us and:
- express your interest in volunteering as admin/accounts/marketing, or arts/dance therapy assistant
- attach your CV
- confirm that you would be available to volunteer for a minimum of six months between 9:30am to 6pm weekdays in admin/accounts/marketing, and at least once a week for two hours for the arts/dance therapy assistants
If you have any questions, please contact us via email info@dancetherapy.co.nz or ring (09) 636 3029.
