Central Air Ambulance Rescue Limited — Health Charity in Taupō
Central Air Ambulance Rescue Limited is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Taupō, Taupō. CharityData rates this charity B- (72/100). Annual revenue: $58.7M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The Company is a joint venture company established and owned by five air rescue/ambulance/emergency services charitable trusts. The Company's charitable purposes, set out in clause 2 of its Constitution, relate to the provision of air rescue and ambulance services, and other emergency services, in particular in the central and lower North Island regions that are serviced by the operations of the shareholder charitable trusts.
- Registration Number
- CC56349
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2018-10-17
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- B- (72/100)
- Sector
- Health
- Location
- Taupō, Taupō
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $58.7M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $58.7M NZD
- Total Assets
- $9.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.7M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 1.1 months of operating expenses
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $58.7M | $58.7M | $0.7M |
| 2024 | $43.1M | $42.8M | $0.7M |
| 2023 | $41.7M | $41.6M | $0.4M |
| 2022 | $25.5M | $25.4M | $0.3M |
| 2021 | $23.2M | $23.2M | $0.3M |
| 2020 | $19.8M | $19.8M | $0.3M |
| 2019 | $7.6M | $7.6M | $0.3M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- B-
- Overall Score
- 72/100
- Financial Score
- 75
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 85
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (2)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| David Harry Deacon Wickham | Trustee | - |
| Blair O'Keeffe | Director | 2019-09-09 |
Former Officers (11)
- David Wickham — Director
- Stewart Davies — Director (departed 2024-06-06)
- Richard Stone — Director
- Evan Cottam — Director
- Blair O'Keeffe — Director
- Leonard Millar — Director (departed 2023-04-01)
- David Wright — Director
- Ian Pirie — Director (departed 2023-02-13)
- Bryce Barnett — Director (departed 2019-12-09)
- Patrick Willock — Director
- James Dunkerley — Director (departed 2019-09-09)
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chair (name not disclosed) | Chairperson | $17,000 | - |
| David Wright | Chair | $17,000 | 2024 |
| Chair (name not disclosed) | Chairperson | $17,000 | 2024 |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Directors | $0 | - |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Directors | $0 | 2024 |
| Patrick Willock | Director | - | 2021 |
| David Wright | Chair | - | 2021 |
| Errol Millar | Director | - | 2021 |
| Ian Pirie | Director | - | 2021 |
| David Wright | Chair | - | 2020 |
| Errol Millar | Director | - | 2022 |
| Errol Millar | Director | - | 2020 |
| Blair O'Keeffe | Director | - | 2020 |
| Ian Pirie | Director | - | 2022 |
| Ian Pirie | Director | - | 2020 |
| Ian Pirie | Director | - | 2023 |
| Stewart Davies | Director | - | 2023 |
| Patrick Willock | Director | - | 2023 |
| Errol Millar | Director | - | 2023 |
| David Wright | Chair | - | 2023 |
| Evan Cottam | Director | - | 2024 |
| Evan Cotam | Director | - | 2023 |
| Blair O'Keeffe | Director | - | 2022 |
| Patrick Willock | Director | - | 2020 |
| Blair O'Keeffe | Director | - | 2021 |
| Bryce Barnett | Director | - | 2020 |
| Evan Cottam | Director | - | 2021 |
| Evan Cottam | Director | - | 2020 |
| Patrick Willock | Director | - | 2024 |
| Peter Dunkerley | Director | - | 2020 |
| Patrick Willock | Director | - | 2022 |
| David Wright | Chair | - | 2022 |
| Richard Stone | Director | - | 2023 |
| David Wickham | Director | - | 2024 |
| Evan Cottam | Director | - | 2022 |
| Stewart Davies | Director | - | 2024 |
| Blair O'Keeffe | Director | - | 2023 |
| Richard Stone | Director | - | 2024 |
| Blair O'Keeffe | Director | - | 2024 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2024)
As disclosed in Central Air Ambulance Rescue Limited's annual report.
- Health New Zealand — Te Whatu Ora — $42,714,054 (99.8% of revenue) — Air Ambulance Helicopter Services provision contract for Lower North Island of New Zealand
Service Providers
- BDO ROTORUA LIMITED
- BDO Rotorua Ltd
- Westpac New Zealand Ltd
- Westpac New Zealand Ltd
- Westpac New Zealand Ltd
- Westpac New Zealand Ltd
- Westpac New Zealand Ltd
- Simpson Grierson
- Chapman Tripp
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Central Air Ambulance Rescue Limited
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (2)
These structural observations are drawn from public data and are worth considering before a donation. They are not allegations of wrongdoing, and they don’t affect the charity’s letter grade.
- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 7. The Charities Register does not require one to be identified, so this is a gap in the public record rather than a finding about the board.
- Government-funding concentration99% of latest-year revenue came from government grants — single-stream dependency
Each signal is a data-driven observation, not a judgement. They fire automatically from the figures filed with Charities Services. A charity can address any of these by filing fuller disclosure or updating its officer register. Methodology: /about/methodology/concern-signals.
$58.7M
$58.7M
$9.6M
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
About
The Company is a joint venture company established and owned by five air rescue/ambulance/emergency services charitable trusts. The Company's charitable purposes, set out in clause 2 of its Constitution, relate to the provision of air rescue and ambulance services, and other emergency services, in particular in the central and lower North Island regions that are serviced by the operations of the shareholder charitable trusts.
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