Cool Bananas Youthwork Trust — Education Charity in Tauranga
Cool Bananas Youthwork Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Tauranga, Tauranga. Annual revenue: $0.1M NZD. Financial data as at January 2025.
Mission: To provide safe, professional and empowering initiatives for children that encourage standards and values from a Christian perspective. "To see generations of children in Aotearoa NZ empowered"
- Registration Number
- CC24158
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-05-08
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Tauranga, Tauranga
- Website
- http://www.coolbananas.org.nz
- office@coolbananas.org.nz
- Data as at
- January 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, Religious groups
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 3
- Financial Year End
- 2025-01-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.1M | $0.1M | - |
| 2024 | $0.2M | $0.3M | $0.0M |
| 2023 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2022 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2021 | $0.4M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2020 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
| 2019 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
| 2018 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
| 2017 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
| 2016 | $0.3M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (5)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Nicola Hardgrave | Chair | 2024-09-08 |
| Stuart Paterson | Trustee | 2024-09-08 |
| Kyle Keogh | Trustee | 2024-09-08 |
| Sarah Bailey | Trustee | 2023-07-31 |
| Sharon Almond-Bryant | Treasurer | 2023-07-03 |
Former Officers (18)
- Rebecca La Spina — Secretary (departed 2024-09-08)
- Susan Hardgrave — Trustee (departed 2024-09-08)
- Richard Smith — Chair (departed 2024-08-08)
- Gemma Tong — Trustee (departed 2022-12-16)
- Micaela Geary — Trustee (departed 2023-07-03)
- Blair Myles — Trustee (departed 2023-07-03)
- Wayne Fraser — Chair (departed 2023-07-03)
- Paul Kelly — Trustee (departed 2020-04-21)
- Bernie Cowan — Chair (departed 2021-05-15)
- Andy Taylor — Trustee (departed 2019-04-08)
- Hilary Tomkins — Trustee (departed 2019-09-02)
- Matutaera Pene — Trustee (departed 2017-03-27)
- Susan Gernhoefer — Trustee and Treasurer (departed 2017-05-08)
- Garth Laing — Trustee (departed 2013-04-22)
- Carolyn Nemeth — Chair and Trustee (departed 2019-02-01)
- Pauline Jacobs — Trustee (departed 2010-02-01)
- Philip Jones — Secretary and Trustee (departed 2023-07-03)
- Roger Dixon — Trustee (departed 2019-06-06)
Funding Sources
- Lion Foundation — $8,000
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Cool Bananas Youthwork Trust
Financial data as at January 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
XRB Tier 3 lets smaller charities (total expenses of $5M or less; $2M for periods ending before 28 March 2024) file a simple-format performance report instead of full PBE standards. 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 our $2M rating threshold. (Whether the accounts must be audited is a separate Charities Act test: audit from $1.1M of operating expenditure, review from $550K.) 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 — set at the pre-2024 Tier 3 ceiling; matches Charity Navigator and CharityWatch US practice.)
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To provide safe, professional and empowering initiatives for children that encourage standards and values from a Christian perspective. "To see generations of children in Aotearoa NZ empowered"
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