Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust — Arts & Culture Charity in Wanaka
Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Wanaka, Wanaka. Annual revenue: $0.1M NZD. Financial data as at September 2025.
Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust is part of the same organisation as Warbirds Over Wanaka Airshows Limited (CC30137). Each registration files its own accounts.
Mission: To deliver a world-class, Wanaka-based event to advance aviation in the community
- Registration Number
- CC30150
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-30
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Arts & Culture
- Location
- Wanaka, Wanaka
- ed@warbirdsoverwanaka.co.nz
- Data as at
- September 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Older people, Voluntary bodies other than charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.3M NZD
- Total Assets
- $2.1M NZD
- Net Assets
- $1.9M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-09-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.1M | $0.3M | $1.9M |
| 2024 | $4.7M | $3.2M | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $0.1M | $0.2M | $0.6M |
| 2022 | $0.7M | $0.4M | $0.8M |
| 2021 | $0.0M | $0.3M | $0.5M |
| 2020 | $0.3M | $0.6M | $0.7M |
| 2019 | $0.0M | $0.3M | $1.0M |
| 2018 | $0.4M | $0.0M | $1.0M |
| 2017 | $0.0M | $0.0M | $0.5M |
| 2016 | $2.7M | $2.4M | $0.7M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (6)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Marion Franks | Trustee | 2022-11-28 |
| Paul Moodie | Trustee | 2022-11-28 |
| Peter Townsend | Trustee | 2019-12-04 |
| John Lamont | Trustee | 2015-12-07 |
| Brett Nicholls | Trustee | 2013-12-17 |
| Edward Taylor | General Manager | 2013-05-01 |
Former Officers (12)
- David McKenzie — Trustee (departed 2022-12-12)
- John Gilks — Trustee (departed 2024-05-16)
- Robyn Reid — Trustee (departed 2016-12-15)
- Ross McRobie — Trustee (departed 2016-12-01)
- Garth Hogan — Trustee (departed 2013-09-16)
- John Wilson — Trustee (departed 2012-05-17)
- John Christie — Trustee (departed 2014-05-26)
- Graeme Ramshaw — Trustee (departed 2012-05-17)
- Robert Gordon — Trustee (departed 2014-05-26)
- Raymond Mulqueen — Trustee (departed 2010-12-31)
- Stephen Grant — Trustee (departed 2019-12-04)
- Donald Cleverley — Trustee (departed 2014-05-26)
Funding Sources
- Lion Foundation — $30,000
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Warbirds Over Wanaka Community Trust
Financial data as at September 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Small volunteer-led organisations are not letter-graded: the standard financial template does not fit entities without paid staff, large revenue, or significant government funding. The charity's filed figures are shown above.
How ratings work →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 recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 6. 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.
- Reserves high for operating sizeReserves cover ~85 months of expenses on $109K 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.
$108.8K
$274.3K
$2.1M
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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To deliver a world-class, Wanaka-based event to advance aviation in the community
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