Community House Mid Canterbury Charitable Trust — Health Charity in Ashburton

Community House Mid Canterbury Charitable Trust is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Ashburton, Ashburton. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $0.4M NZD. Financial data as at March 2025.

Mission: Community House Mid Canterbury Charitable Trust provides a "one-stop-shop" for local groups and/or individuals within Mid-Canterbury to access information on the welfare/special services which are available in our area. The trust provides low cost office and meeting space for not-for-profit community, social and health services and public community use. The entity provides this by providing a local, centralised base for this information to be collated and stored at, and made readily accessible to the public. It further utilises it central location and space by providing to other social providers accommodation and basic administrative services. The administrative services are also resources that can be fully utilised by the sharing of them among other social services agencies and volunteer support groups around Mid-Canterbury

Registration Number
CC26483
Charity Type
Trust
Registration Date
2008-06-23
Status
Active
Sector
Health
Location
Ashburton, Ashburton
Email
reception@communityhousemc.co.nz
Funder Status
Grant-making charity (charitable_trust)
Data as at
March 2025

Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Migrants / refugees, Older people, Other charities, People with disabilities, Voluntary bodies other than charities

Financial Summary

Total Revenue
$0.4M NZD
Total Expenses
$0.3M NZD
Total Assets
$2.8M NZD
Net Assets
$2.0M NZD
Reserve Months
0.0 months of operating expenses
Staff Count
5
Volunteers
0
Financial Year End
2025-03-31

Financial History

YearRevenueExpensesNet Assets
2025$0.4M$0.3M$2.0M
2024$0.4M$0.3M$1.9M
2023$0.6M$0.3M$1.8M
2022$0.2M$0.3M$1.4M
2021$0.3M$0.3M$1.5M
2020$0.2M$0.3M$1.5M
2019$0.2M$0.2M$1.6M
2018$0.2M$0.2M$1.6M
2017$0.2M$0.2M$1.6M
2016$0.7M$0.2M$1.6M

Board Members and Officers

Current Officers (0)

NameRoleAppointed

Former Officers (31)

  • Jennifer Brady — Trustee
  • Sarah Lovell — Trustee
  • Sarah How — Trustee (departed 2024-10-16)
  • Henry McManus — Trustee
  • Natasha Wilson — Trustee
  • Peter Melrose — Trustee (departed 2024-01-31)
  • Tony Gilbert — Trustee (departed 2020-09-30)
  • Jo Goodhew — Trustee (departed 2019-08-27)
  • David Rush — Trustee
  • Rex Whiting — Trustee (departed 2021-03-31)
  • Kevin Clifford — Trustee (departed 2017-08-28)
  • Don McLeod — Trustee (departed 2017-08-28)
  • David Mathieson — Trustee (departed 2025-11-19)
  • Leandra Fitzgibbon — Trustee (departed 2021-09-16)
  • Beverley Tasker — Committee Member (departed 2014-08-25)
  • Luisa Fruean — Committee Member (departed 2013-12-16)
  • Kieran O'Hagan — Trustee (departed 2019-08-27)
  • Brian Flatman — Trustee (departed 2017-04-01)
  • Leslie Leadley — Trustee (departed 2014-07-31)
  • Alister Brown — Trustee (departed 2012-10-16)

Funding Sources

  • The Lion Foundation — $231,069
  • Air Rescue Services Limited — $102,807.68

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Community House Mid Canterbury Charitable Trust

CC26483Ashburton, AshburtonRegistered 23 Jun 2008
Data updated: 3 days ago
Financials31 Mar 2025Rating2d ago

Financial data as at March 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.

NR
Not rated — Summary-form filing — not enough detail to grade

Charities Services Tier 3 reporting allows charities under $2M revenue to file a simple-format annual return rather than audited financial statements. The return reports totals but not the program/administration split or the line-item detail our template needs. No red flags were detected in what was filed, and revenue is below the $2M Tier 2 boundary where audited accounts become mandatory. A letter grade is withheld rather than assigning one that would be driven by the template-fit, not the charity's operations. The charity's filed figures are shown above, and any structural concerns a donor would want to look at are surfaced separately. (v3.3 — aligned with Charities Services tier boundary; matches Charity Navigator and CharityWatch US practice.)

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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 register
    No chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 5. 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.
  • Reserves high for operating size
    Reserves cover ~69 months of expenses on $407K revenue — very high for an operating charity this size

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Revenue

$406.6K

Expenses

$345.4K

Assets

$2.8M

Staff

5

Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.

Funder Profile

Grantmaker

This organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.

Funding Sectors
HealthSocial ServicesCommunity Development
Beneficiaries
General Public
Geographic Focus
Canterbury

About

Mission

Community House Mid Canterbury Charitable Trust provides a "one-stop-shop" for local groups and/or individuals within Mid-Canterbury to access information on the welfare/special services which are available in our area. The trust provides low cost office and meeting space for not-for-profit community, social and health services and public community use. The entity provides this by providing a local, centralised base for this information to be collated and stored at, and made readily accessible to the public. It further utilises it central location and space by providing to other social providers accommodation and basic administrative services. The administrative services are also resources that can be fully utilised by the sharing of them among other social services agencies and volunteer support groups around Mid-Canterbury

Who We Serve

Beneficiaries
Children / young peopleGeneral publicMigrants / refugeesOlder peopleOther charitiesPeople with disabilitiesVoluntary bodies other than charities

Key Statistics

Annual Revenue
$406.6K
Total Expenses
$345.4K
Net Assets
$2.0M
Staff
5
employees
Volunteers
0

Financial Trends

Financial Trends (17 Years)

Revenue Breakdown

Expense Breakdown

API Data

Based on annual return data. Detailed program/admin breakdown not available.

Financial Health Dashboard

Cents to the Cause
100c
For every $1 spent, 100c reaches programs
Strong
Sustainability
7.1mo
Could operate 7.1 months with zero revenue
Healthy
Fundraising Cost
-
No fundraising data
No data

Based on latest annual return data. Metrics are calculated from reported financial data and may not reflect the full picture. View methodology

Revenue Diversification

3
Score /100
Highly Concentrated
HHI: 9,666
High Concentration: 98% of revenue from Other
Other98.3%
Investment Income1.7%
Donations0.0%

HHI (Herfindahl–Hirschman Index) measures concentration across 6 income categories. Lower HHI = more diversified. Score above 60 indicates healthy diversification.

Peer Comparison

Ranked against 157 peers · Health · $100K – $1M

Rating Score
0
#39/158
Revenue
$407K
#51/158
Reserve Months
0.0
#1/158
Surplus
$61K
#38/158
Staff Cost %
43%
#158/158

Peers are charities in the same sector and revenue size band. Rankings are based on the latest available data.

Rating

Score: /100
Financial
0
Governance
20
Transparency
65
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Contact Details

Address
Ashburton, Ashburton

Registration

Registration NumberCC26483
Entity TypeTrust
Registered23 Jun 2008
StatusRegistered

Companies Office

StatusRegistered
Entity TypeCharitable Trust
Incorporated9 Dec 1994
Registered office
44 Cass Street, Ashburton

Sector & Activities

Primary Sector
Health
Activities
Provides buildings / facilities / open spaceProvides services (e.g. care / counselling)

Data sourced from Charities Services register and publicly available annual returns. Our datasets may not be complete. Automated analysis can produce errors. Scores are calculated using disclosed methodology and are analytical tools, not investment ratings or recommendations. If you believe any data on this page is incorrect, please contact us at hello@charitydata.co.nz. For informational purposes only. Not investment advice. Last updated: 28 September 2026.