Skills Consulting Group Limited — Education Charity in AUCKLAND
Skills Consulting Group Limited is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in AUCKLAND, AUCKLAND. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $4.9M NZD. Financial data as at December 2015.
Mission: The Company is established, and is to carry on its business, exclusively for charitable purposes in New Zealand, and whose charitable purpose is to provide high quality vocational education, training and learning programmes and services to support New Zealand industries, organisations and individuals.
- Registration Number
- CC20799
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-01-29
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- AUCKLAND, AUCKLAND
- jenny.gibbs@skills-group.org
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (company)
- Data as at
- December 2015
Beneficiaries: General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $4.9M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $4.5M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.7M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.3M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 7
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2015-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | $4.9M | $4.5M | $0.3M |
| 2014 | $3.2M | $2.7M | $-0.1M |
| 2013 | $0.6M | $0.4M | $-0.6M |
| 2012 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $-0.8M |
| 2011 | $0.7M | $0.7M | $-0.8M |
| 2010 | $2.1M | $3.4M | $-1.3M |
| 2009 | $0.5M | $0.5M | $0.1M |
| 2008 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.0M |
| 2007 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (7)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Kirsten Turnock | Director Sales | 2025-10-13 |
| Diane Lithgow | Director Trades School | 2025-02-24 |
| Mark Arthur-Worsop | Director Vocational Training | 2023-11-13 |
| Rosanne Graham | Director | 2022-07-01 |
| Gwyn Thomas | Director Product, Innovation, Quality and Sales | 2021-05-10 |
| Jane Kennelly | General Manager Wellbeing | 2020-11-23 |
| Scott Bitchener | Chief Financial Officer | 2016-04-11 |
Former Officers (21)
- Marie Boyle — Director, Digital, Learner Services, Operational Improvement (departed 2026-08-14)
- Ian Butturini — Director (departed 2022-06-27)
- Helen Carter — General Manager Marketing & Business Development (departed 2022-05-31)
- Sean Delaney — General Manager Group Sales (departed 2021-11-26)
- Nicky Jones — General Manager People & Strategy (departed 2022-09-01)
- Paula Scholes — Director (departed 2022-05-31)
- Andrew Smith — General Manager Product & Technology (departed 2022-08-26)
- Lance Riesterer — General Manager Training & Sme (departed 2022-12-16)
- Cassandra Crowley — Director (departed 2022-06-27)
- Bridget O'Shannessey — Director (departed 2022-06-27)
- Shenagh Gleisner — Director (departed 2022-05-31)
- Bridget Dennis — Senior Vice President Global Markets (departed 2023-01-27)
- Timothy Gibson — Director (departed 2022-06-27)
- Rodney De Spong — Director (departed 2022-06-27)
- Iain Worsley — Senior Manager (departed 2016-04-11)
- Garry Fissenden — CEO (departed 2022-06-30)
- David Askew — Financial Controller (departed 2013-05-17)
- David Grant — Director (departed 2012-03-22)
- Michael Henderson — Director (departed 2010-09-30)
- Brian Nowell — Director (departed 2022-05-31)
Reporting Group Members
Skills Consulting Group Limited files a consolidated Annual Return jointly with 6 sibling charities:
- The Electrical Training Company Limited
- SHIFT INNOVATION CENTRE LIMITED
- The Skills Group Foundation
- Skills Group Training Limited
- Skills Group Employment Limited
- The Skills Group Trust
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Skills Consulting Group Limited
Financial data as at December 2015. Sourced from Charities Services register.
The most recent financial filing with Charities Services is more than three years old. Until a current return is filed, a rating is not assigned.
How ratings work →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.
- Shared trustees with reporting-group siblings7 current trustees also serve on the board of another charity in the same Charities Services reporting group (group has 7 member charities filing one consolidated annual return). Group-internal cross-trusteeship can be operationally efficient but should be visible to donors.
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.
$4.9M
$4.5M
$726.0K
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2015). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
Reporting group parent. Skills Consulting Group Limited files one consolidated annual return covering 6 members. Member-level figures are not separately reported with Charities Services.
Funder Profile
GrantmakerThis organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
About
The Company is established, and is to carry on its business, exclusively for charitable purposes in New Zealand, and whose charitable purpose is to provide high quality vocational education, training and learning programmes and services to support New Zealand industries, organisations and individuals.
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Reporting Group — Consolidated Annual Return
Skills Consulting Group Limited is one of 7 charities in a Charities Services reporting group. Members file a single consolidated Annual Return together, so the financial figures on each member’s page reflect the combined group — not standalone operations.
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