The St Margarets College Trust Board — Education Charity in Christchurch
The St Margarets College Trust Board is a Charitable Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Christchurch, Christchurch. CharityData rates this charity B+ (83.4/100). Annual revenue: $27.5M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: Educating Young Women to Live and Lead
- Registration Number
- CC25547
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-09
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- B+ (83.4/100)
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Christchurch, Christchurch
- finance@stmargarets.school.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $27.5M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $26.5M NZD
- Total Assets
- $58.8M NZD
- Net Assets
- $44.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 1.8 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 223
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $27.5M | $26.5M | $44.1M |
| 2024 | $26.1M | $25.4M | $43.1M |
| 2023 | $24.8M | $24.1M | $45.4M |
| 2022 | $22.6M | $21.8M | $44.7M |
| 2021 | $22.3M | $21.4M | $43.9M |
| 2020 | $20.2M | $19.5M | $43.1M |
| 2019 | $19.8M | $19.4M | $42.4M |
| 2018 | $18.8M | $18.7M | $41.9M |
| 2017 | $17.9M | $17.8M | $41.8M |
| 2016 | $17.2M | $16.9M | $41.7M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- B+
- Overall Score
- 83.4/100
- Financial Score
- 91.3
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 85
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (1)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Stephen Brown-Thomas | Trustee | 2026-02-17 |
Former Officers (44)
- Richard Wilkinson — Trustee
- Timothy Burnside — Trustee
- Benjamin Scott — Trustee
- Gareth Abdinor — Trustee (departed 2026-05-25)
- Tim Rookes — Trustee (departed 2026-06-30)
- Melanie Muirson — Trustee
- Nicola Church — Trustee
- Randal Hanrahan — Trustee (departed 2024-11-21)
- Grant Edmundson — Trustee (departed 2023-05-31)
- Diane Humphries — Trustee
- Andrew Hawkes — Trustee (departed 2023-01-24)
- Andrea Wylie — Trustee (departed 2021-02-24)
- Cindy McEwan — Trustee
- Kathryn McCorkindale — Trustee (departed 2021-12-31)
- Peter Flannery — Trustee (departed 2019-12-31)
- Albert Brantley — Trustee (departed 2020-08-17)
- Victoria Green — Trustee (departed 2022-11-21)
- Fiona Bush — Trustee (departed 2019-07-29)
- Caleb Ballin — Trustee (departed 2015-12-01)
- Richard Carey — Trustee (departed 2019-07-29)
Disclosed Pay and Fees
| Name | Role | Role type | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Principal, Associate Principal, General Manager, Heads and Deputy Heads of School and Heads of Departments | Group total | $3,460,911 | - |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Principal, Associate Principal, General Manager, Heads and Deputy Heads of School and Heads of Departments | Group total | $3,460,911 | 2024 |
| Di Humphries | Trust Board Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| Richard Bolton | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Tim Rookes | Finance Committee Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| Melanie Muirson | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| Lisa Chan | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Diana Patchett | Executive Principal | Executive role | - | 2022 |
| Juliet Widdup | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Margaret Greenwood | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Juliet Moses | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Peter Howell-Jones | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Andrew Cameron | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Lynley Hargreaves | Principal | Executive role | - | 2020 |
| Celia Wade-Brown | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Vicki Green | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| Michael Boyle | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Tim Rookes | Finance Committee Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Alison Abernethy | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Chris Pyne | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Kirsten Lawson | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| David Mather | Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Grant McCallum | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Diana Patchett | Executive Principal | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Catherine Weatherall | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Simon Rutherford | Trustee | Board or trustee role | - | 2020 |
| Di Humphries | Trust Board Chair | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2023)
As disclosed in The St Margarets College Trust Board's annual report.
- Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education — $1,724,502 (7.71% of revenue) — State grants funding
Service Providers
- Nicole Dring
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The St Margarets College Trust Board
Financial data as at December 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 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.
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$27.5M
$26.5M
$58.8M
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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