Waiuku Search and Rescue Association (Incorporated) — Environment Charity in Waiuku
Waiuku Search and Rescue Association (Incorporated) is a Trust charity in the Environment sector, based in Waiuku, Waiuku. CharityData rates this charity F (15/100). Annual revenue: $0.2M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: Saving lives at sea
- Registration Number
- CC41606
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2009-07-29
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- F (15/100)
- Sector
- Environment
- Location
- Waiuku, Waiuku
- sarwaiuku@gmail.com
- Data as at
- June 2025
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.2M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.8M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.7M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.7M |
| 2024 | $0.1M | $0.0M | - |
| 2023 | $0.1M | $0.1M | - |
| 2022 | $0.2M | $0.0M | - |
| 2021 | $0.1M | $0.0M | - |
| 2020 | $0.1M | $0.0M | - |
| 2019 | $0.0M | $0.0M | - |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.0M | - |
| 2017 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.4M |
| 2016 | $0.1M | $0.0M | - |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- F
- Overall Score
- 15/100
- Financial Score
- 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 (17)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Mark Joblin | Committee | 2024-09-17 |
| Tayler Oldfield | Committee | 2024-09-17 |
| John Hull | Committee | 2024-09-17 |
| Garry Box | Vice President | 2022-09-26 |
| Emma Brooks | Committee | 2021-05-19 |
| Johan Van Niekerk | Committee | 2021-05-01 |
| Dean Lawrence | Immediate Past President | 2020-11-01 |
| Robert Moody | Committee | 2017-09-12 |
| Clinton Hunt | Secretary | 2017-06-13 |
| Mike Abbott | Treasurer | 2014-09-30 |
| Nigel Griffiths | Committee | 2014-09-30 |
| Karl Dickey | President | 2014-09-30 |
| Alan Lucas | Committee | 2008-09-30 |
| John Garvey | Committee | 2008-09-30 |
| Richard Udy | Committee | 2008-09-30 |
| Peter Dodd | Committee | 2008-09-30 |
| Graham Boase | Committee | 2008-09-30 |
Former Officers (23)
- Sonjia Connell — Committee (departed 2024-09-17)
- Richard Robinson — Committee (departed 2024-01-01)
- Aaron Morse — Committee (departed 2021-09-27)
- Bruce Cutler — Committee (departed 2017-06-30)
- Craig Benjamin — Committee (departed 2016-06-30)
- Guy Hornblow — Committee (departed 2021-09-01)
- Ally Ritchie — Secretary (departed 2019-12-01)
- Ross Tate — Immediate Past President (departed 2022-01-01)
- Todd Forsyth — Committee (departed 2017-01-01)
- Keith Steiner — Committee (departed 2017-01-01)
- Frank Wainwright — Committee (departed 2014-09-30)
- Mark Richards — Committee (departed 2009-09-29)
- Andrew King — Committee (departed 2019-04-01)
- Jeff Millen — Committee (departed 2022-06-01)
- Andy Bastin — Committee (departed 2014-09-30)
- Ray Burns — Committee (departed 2010-12-29)
- Wal Cutten — Committee (departed 2014-09-30)
- Jenny Cutten — Committee (departed 2014-09-30)
- Peter Harvey — Committee (departed 2014-09-30)
- Zane Lee — Committee (departed 2009-09-29)
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Waiuku Search and Rescue Association (Incorporated)
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (2)
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 34 with no chair designated on the register
- Reserves high for operating sizeReserves cover ~60 months of expenses on $152K revenue — very high for an operating charity this size
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.
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.
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Saving lives at sea
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Financial Trends (16 Years)
Revenue Breakdown
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Revenue Diversification
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Peer Comparison
Ranked against 145 peers · Environment · $100K – $1M
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