The Catwalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust — Education Charity in Auckland
The Catwalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. CharityData rates this charity B (79.5/100). Annual revenue: $2.2M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at March 2025.
Mission: Dedicated to supporting innovative, world-class SCI research to repair damage and cure spinal cord injury. We are determined to translate these discoveries into treatments which restore movement, feeling and function to those injured. We need capacity and investment to challenge boundaries. With targeted funding and global collaboration, research exploration will accelerate to enable those living with SCI to walk again.
- Registration Number
- CC27170
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-30
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- B (79.5/100)
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland
- Website
- http://www.catwalk.org.nz
- info@catwalk.org.nz
- Data as at
- March 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Other charities, People with disabilities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $2.2M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $2.8M NZD
- Total Assets
- $2.0M NZD
- Net Assets
- $1.9M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.2 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 5
- Volunteers
- 2
- Financial Year End
- 2025-03-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $2.2M | $2.8M | $1.9M |
| 2024 | $0.5M | $1.2M | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $1.0M | $1.1M | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $0.9M | $1.8M | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.7M | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $0.9M | $4.5M |
| 2019 | $2.1M | $1.0M | $4.0M |
| 2018 | $1.1M | $0.7M | $3.0M |
| 2017 | $0.7M | $0.6M | $2.6M |
| 2016 | $1.2M | $0.7M | $2.5M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- B
- Overall Score
- 79.5/100
- Financial Score
- 100
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
Red Flags
- 3 trustees of this charity also sit on multiple other charity boards — concentrated trustee bandwidth may warrant board-skill-mix review.
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (38)
- Justin Abbiss — Trustee
- Daniel Buckingham — Trustee
- LUCY LEADBETTER — Trustee
- Nicola White — Trustee
- John Fraser — Trustee
- Lee Taniwha — Trustee
- Martyn Goulding — Trustee
- Tara Satyanand — Trustee
- Kirsty Rueppell — Trustee (departed 2024-09-10)
- Simon Manners — Trustee
- Fiona Webby — Trustee (departed 2024-02-26)
- Richard Wilcox — Trustee (departed 2024-05-02)
- Debra Haworth — Trustee (departed 2020-11-02)
- Kim McWilliams — Trustee (departed 2019-11-21)
- Thomas Brady — Trustee (departed 2023-12-04)
- Louise Nicholson — Trustee (departed 2022-09-05)
- Tonia Cawood — Trustee (departed 2019-09-24)
- Vikki Maclean — Trustee (departed 2019-08-20)
- Victoria Maclean — Trustee (departed 2016-01-28)
- Catriona Williams — Trustee (departed 2017-01-04)
Funding Sources
- Trust House Foundation — $3,000
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The Catwalk Spinal Cord Injury Trust
Financial data as at March 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 recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 10. 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.
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.
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Dedicated to supporting innovative, world-class SCI research to repair damage and cure spinal cord injury. We are determined to translate these discoveries into treatments which restore movement, feeling and function to those injured. We need capacity and investment to challenge boundaries. With targeted funding and global collaboration, research exploration will accelerate to enable those living with SCI to walk again.
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Ranked against 37 peers · Education · $1M – $10M
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