Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley Trust — Education Charity in Wellington
Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley Trust is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Wellington, Wellington. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. CharityData rates this charity D (49.5/100). Annual revenue: $3.0M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: To relieve poverty, provide education & provide benefit to the communtiy through providing community legal servic, to met unmet legal need, informing + edicating the communtiy about their legal rights + obligations, priority through the treaty, developing a partnership response with tangata whenua on the provisie of legal services.
- Registration Number
- CC51609
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2015-04-23
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- D (49.5/100)
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Wellington, Wellington
- info@wclc.org.nz
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (trust)
- Data as at
- June 2025
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $3.0M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $3.0M NZD
- Total Assets
- $1.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $1.3M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 3.8 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 33
- Volunteers
- 4
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $3.0M | $3.0M | $1.3M |
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.0M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.3M | $0.9M |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $0.6M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $0.5M |
| 2019 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $0.4M |
| 2018 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $0.5M |
| 2017 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $0.5M |
| 2016 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $0.4M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- D
- Overall Score
- 49.5/100
- Financial Score
- 100
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
Red Flags
- Does not publicly disclose executive compensation despite receiving significant public funding
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (5)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Julia Spelman | Trustee | 2024-02-26 |
| Emily Deans | Trustee | 2024-02-26 |
| Aimee Bryant | Trustee | 2024-02-26 |
| Lana Underhill-Sem | Trustee | 2023-05-08 |
| David Abricossow | Trustee | 2015-02-17 |
Former Officers (14)
- Julia Whaipooti — Trustee (departed 2024-02-26)
- David Green — Trustee (departed 2024-12-16)
- Megan Paish — Trustee (departed 2023-12-20)
- Piripi (philip) Winiata — Board-Member-Te-Riu-Māori (departed 2022-04-26)
- Naomi Solomon — Trustee (departed 2018-08-28)
- Baden Vertongen — Trustee (departed 2024-07-01)
- Melanie Baker — Trustee (departed 2019-04-08)
- Geoffrey Roberts — General Manager (departed 2018-03-23)
- Kiritapu Allan — Trustee (departed 2015-09-09)
- Gregory Cain — Trustee (departed 2023-05-08)
- Cameron Madgwick — Trustee (departed 2017-09-11)
- Deane Carson — Trustee (departed 2018-05-31)
- Meredith Stephens — Trustee (departed 2022-08-22)
- Molly Kennedy — Trustee (departed 2019-06-10)
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Community Law Wellington and Hutt Valley Trust
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (1)
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 designatedBoard of 10 with no chair designated on the register
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.
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
This rating may reflect incomplete data
This charity's grade of D is based on limited data from the NZ Charities Register, which does not provide detailed expense breakdowns. Without verified program vs admin spending, efficiency scoring is unavailable and the financial score relies on health metrics only. This charity's actual performance may differ from what the available data suggests.
Funder Profile
GrantmakerThis organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
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To relieve poverty, provide education & provide benefit to the communtiy through providing community legal servic, to met unmet legal need, informing + edicating the communtiy about their legal rights + obligations, priority through the treaty, developing a partnership response with tangata whenua on the provisie of legal services.
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Ranked against 31 peers · Education · $1M – $10M
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