Top Of The South Rural Support Trust — Health Charity in Nelson
Top Of The South Rural Support Trust is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Nelson, Nelson. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. CharityData rates this charity F (36.8/100). Annual revenue: $0.1M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The charitable purposes of the Trust are to give co-ordinated and personal support to rural people in Tasman and Marlborough regions before, during or after adversity, on a regional or personal scale. Our vision is to champion a superior robust network that fosters and supports the well-being of rural people through identifying and responding to needs and providing assistance to overcome challenges, building a strong resilient rural community. Working with others we can achieve more than we do as a single group.
- Registration Number
- CC28596
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-30
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- F (36.8/100)
- Sector
- Health
- Location
- Nelson, Nelson
- suzanne.osborne@ruralsuppot.org.nz
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (trust)
- Data as at
- June 2025
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.2M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.2M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 2
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.2M |
| 2024 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.2M |
| 2023 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.2M |
| 2022 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2021 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2020 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.1M | $0.2M | $0.2M |
| 2016 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.2M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- F
- Overall Score
- 36.8/100
- Financial Score
- 57.5
- Governance Score
- 55
- 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 (4)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Christopher Bird | Trustee | 2016-09-06 |
| Graeme Thomson | Trustee | 2014-06-15 |
| Richard Kempthorne | Trustee | 2007-10-06 |
| Alan Rowling | Trustee | 1997-09-22 |
Former Officers (8)
- Diane Higgins — Trustee (departed 2017-10-25)
- Stuart Borlase — Trustee (departed 2015-09-15)
- Melva Robb — Trustee (departed 2021-11-03)
- Edwin Newport — Trustee (departed 2020-01-10)
- Alan Holdaway — Trustee (departed 2017-10-25)
- Brian Powell — Trustee (departed 2016-07-12)
- Michael Hoddy — Trustee (departed 2017-10-25)
- Colin Gibbs — Trustee-Chairperson (departed 2017-07-04)
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Top Of The South Rural Support Trust
Financial data as at June 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 designatedBoard of 18 with no chair designated on the register
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
This rating may reflect incomplete data
This charity's grade of F is based on limited data from the NZ Charities Register, which does not provide detailed expense breakdowns. Without verified program vs admin spending, efficiency scoring is unavailable and the financial score relies on health metrics only. This charity's actual performance may differ from what the available data suggests.
Funder Profile
GrantmakerThis organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
About
The charitable purposes of the Trust are to give co-ordinated and personal support to rural people in Tasman and Marlborough regions before, during or after adversity, on a regional or personal scale. Our vision is to champion a superior robust network that fosters and supports the well-being of rural people through identifying and responding to needs and providing assistance to overcome challenges, building a strong resilient rural community. Working with others we can achieve more than we do as a single group.
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Revenue Diversification
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Peer Comparison
Ranked against 226 peers · Health · Under $100K
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