The Media Access Charitable Trust is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $0.2M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The nature of the Media Access Charitable Trust (trading as Able) is to work towards an Aotearoa New Zealand where everyone has equal access to audiovisual media. Our core purpose is to serve the 880,000+ members of the Deaf or hard of hearing community; the 180,000+ people who are blind or have low vision, and those who rely on captions to help improve literacy or navigate English as a second language. Our mission is how we’re achieving our vision; through our work as Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading provider of captions, subtitles and audio description. Able provides these services for free-to-air television (TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, TVNZ Duke, Three, Sky Open), digital platforms such as TVNZ+, ThreeNow, and RNZ, as well as for film, film festivals, government and television commercials.
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $-0.6M |
| 2024 | $0.2M | $0.4M | $-0.4M |
| 2023 | $5.7M | $0.5M | $-0.5M |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $0.5M | $-0.6M |
| 2021 | $4.0M | $4.0M | $-0.4M |
| 2020 | $3.0M | $0.2M | $-0.2M |
| 2019 | $3.0M | $0.2M | $-0.2M |
| 2018 | $3.0M | $0.2M | $-0.2M |
| 2017 | $2.9M | $0.3M | $-0.2M |
| 2016 | $2.9M | $1.9M | $-0.2M |
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | CEO and Senior Staff (6 FTE) | $663,705 | 2024 |
| Lewis Grant | Chair | $0 | 2024 |
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
This charity has reported liabilities exceeding assets for two or more consecutive years. That pattern is common and structural for retirement villages (occupation-right-agreement bonds recorded as liabilities), iwi treaty-settlement vehicles (future-obligation accruals), and infrastructure trusts with Crown loan principal — it does not indicate financial distress, but our standard reserve-months scoring template does not apply. The charity's figures are shown above.
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
This organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
The nature of the Media Access Charitable Trust (trading as Able) is to work towards an Aotearoa New Zealand where everyone has equal access to audiovisual media. Our core purpose is to serve the 880,000+ members of the Deaf or hard of hearing community; the 180,000+ people who are blind or have low vision, and those who rely on captions to help improve literacy or navigate English as a second language. Our mission is how we’re achieving our vision; through our work as Aotearoa New Zealand’s leading provider of captions, subtitles and audio description. Able provides these services for free-to-air television (TVNZ 1, TVNZ 2, TVNZ Duke, Three, Sky Open), digital platforms such as TVNZ+, ThreeNow, and RNZ, as well as for film, film festivals, government and television commercials.
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