Victoria Link Limited — Education Charity in Wellington
Victoria Link Limited is a Company charity in the Education sector, based in Wellington, Wellington. Annual revenue: $10.1M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: Victoria Link Limited's core purpose is research translation and knowledge transfer to achieve maximum impact in the context of Victoria University of Wellington's role as a global civic University.
- Registration Number
- CC24697
- Charity Type
- Company
- Registration Date
- 2008-05-21
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Wellington, Wellington
- accounts@wellingtonuniventures.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $10.1M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $6.7M NZD
- Total Assets
- $9.3M NZD
- Net Assets
- $5.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 11
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $10.1M | $6.7M | $5.1M |
| 2024 | $9.7M | $10.8M | $-1.7M |
| 2023 | $9.3M | $0.0M | $-1.0M |
| 2022 | $10.0M | $0.3M | $-3.7M |
| 2021 | $7.9M | $0.1M | $-2.0M |
| 2020 | $14.9M | $0.7M | $-0.5M |
| 2019 | $19.6M | $0.2M | $-2.8M |
| 2018 | $18.9M | $19.4M | $-3.7M |
| 2017 | $18.3M | $18.1M | $-2.7M |
| 2016 | $14.8M | $0.2M | $-1.9M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (3)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Rachel Bruce | Director | 2025-12-01 |
| Professor Bryony James | Director | 2024-01-01 |
| Mark Loveard | Director | 2015-12-07 |
Former Officers (15)
- Ngaio Merrick — Director (departed 2023-05-01)
- Ehsan Mesbahi — Trustee (departed 2023-06-30)
- Ian Williamson — Director (departed 2020-09-08)
- Professor Margaret Hyland — Director (departed 2025-12-31)
- David Smol — Chair (departed 2024-07-01)
- Andrew Simpson — Director (departed 2015-06-19)
- Frazer Allan — Director (departed 2017-11-03)
- Kate McGrath — Director (departed 2018-04-24)
- Mike Wilson — Director (departed 2019-02-08)
- John Selby — Director (departed 2023-06-30)
- Dugald Scott — Director (departed 2021-09-16)
- Gowan Pickering — Director (departed 2017-11-03)
- Neil Quigley — Director (departed 2015-01-23)
- Geoffery Todd — Director (departed 2019-03-05)
- David Bibby — Director (departed 2013-07-19)
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel | $618,307 | - |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel | $618,307 | 2024 |
| M Loveard | Director | $21,667 | 2024 |
| Mark Loveard | Director (Board Chair) | $21,667 | 2024 |
| M Loveard | Director | $21,667 | - |
| D Smol | Director | $15,000 | - |
| David Smol | Director (Chair until resignation) | $15,000 | 2024 |
| D Smol | Director | $15,000 | 2024 |
| B James | Director | $0 | 2024 |
| M Hyland | Director | $0 | 2024 |
| B James | Director | $0 | - |
| M Hyland | Director | $0 | - |
| Margaret Hyland | Director | - | 2023 |
| Mark Loveard | Director | - | 2023 |
| Anne Barnett | CEO | - | 2023 |
| Margaret Hyland | Director | - | 2024 |
| Bryony James | Director | - | 2024 |
| Pierre Malou | CEO | - | 2023 |
| David Smol | Chair | - | 2023 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2024)
As disclosed in Victoria Link Limited's annual report.
- Zespri — Research contract
- New Zealand Health Ventures — Research contract
- Ministry of Health — Research contract
- IHP Therapeutics — Research contract
- GroBiosciences — Research contract
- BDG Synthesis — Research contract
Service Providers
- EY
- ANZ Bank
- Buddle Findlay
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Victoria Link Limited
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
This entity is registered as a charity but functions as a property, trading, or investment vehicle held by a service-delivering parent (a church, school, hospital, professional association, or similar). Its purpose is to hold or trade assets on the parent's behalf — not to deliver programs to public beneficiaries on its own books. The standard charity rating template (program-vs-administration split, reserve-months, fundraising efficiency) doesn't apply at the subsidiary level — those signals are meaningful at the parent level. A letter grade is withheld here rather than producing a misleading F driven by template-fit. Look up the parent charity by name for its rating.
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- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 3. 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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$10.1M
$6.7M
$9.3M
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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Special Entity TypeThis organization is a subsidiary or branch of a parent charity.
About
Victoria Link Limited's core purpose is research translation and knowledge transfer to achieve maximum impact in the context of Victoria University of Wellington's role as a global civic University.
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