Beneficiary Advisory Service — Social Services Charity in Christchurch

Beneficiary Advisory Service is a Trust charity in the Social Services sector, based in Christchurch, Christchurch. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $0.1M NZD. Financial data as at March 2025.

Mission: To provide information, advice, support and advocacy to beneficiaries, people with disabilities and people on low incomes including the family and whanau of these people.

Registration Number
CC21630
Charity Type
Trust
Registration Date
2008-03-06
Status
Active
Sector
Social Services
Location
Christchurch, Christchurch
Email
office@bas.org.nz
Funder Status
Grant-making charity (other)
Data as at
March 2025

Beneficiaries: Family / whanau, People with disabilities, Other - All

Financial Summary

Total Revenue
$0.1M NZD
Total Expenses
$0.1M NZD
Total Assets
$0.1M NZD
Net Assets
$0.0M NZD
Reserve Months
0.0 months of operating expenses
Staff Count
4
Volunteers
0
Financial Year End
2025-03-31

Financial History

YearRevenueExpensesNet Assets
2025$0.1M$0.1M$0.0M
2024$0.1M$0.1M$0.1M
2023$0.1M$0.1M$0.1M
2022$0.1M$0.1M$0.1M
2021$0.1M$0.1M$0.1M
2020$0.1M$0.1M-
2019$0.1M$0.1M$0.0M
2018$0.1M$0.1M$0.1M
2017$0.1M$0.1M$0.0M
2016$0.1M$0.0M$0.0M

Board Members and Officers

Current Officers (5)

NameRoleAppointed
Felicity RobertsonTrustee2024-10-07
Paul CottamTrustee2023-09-29
Claire GrayTreasurer2023-09-29
Tavia MooreChair2022-01-31
Michelle AustinTrustee2019-05-27

Former Officers (14)

  • Vanessa Mazzola — Trustee (departed 2023-05-01)
  • Maree Dowall — Treasurer (departed 2022-02-01)
  • Megan Aspe — Secretary (departed 2024-08-07)
  • Venkataman Nilakant — Trustee (departed 2023-02-01)
  • Brian Curtis — Treasurer (departed 2021-05-21)
  • Simonette Boele — Trustee (departed 2023-01-01)
  • Chris Nolan — Trustee (departed 2017-10-16)
  • Telesia Keti — Trustee (departed 2016-08-26)
  • John Hughes — Trustee (departed 2019-08-19)
  • Jannet Dunstall — Secretary (departed 2019-08-19)
  • Elizabeth Mackie — Chair of Trust (departed 2011-04-30)
  • Nygena Williams — Secretary (departed 2016-10-11)
  • Rebecca Occleston — Secretary (departed 2018-07-25)
  • Moana Cole — Trustee (departed 2013-03-31)

Funding Sources

  • The Trusts Community Foundation — $7,949
  • Kiwi Gaming Foundation Limited — $7,860
  • The Trusts Community Foundation — $7,500
  • Mainland Foundation Limited — $7,468

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FunderSocial ServicesTrustOther

Beneficiary Advisory Service

CC21630Christchurch, ChristchurchRegistered 6 Mar 2008
Data updated: 5 days ago
Financials31 Mar 2025Rating4d ago

Financial data as at March 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.

NR
Not rated — Summary-form filing — not enough detail to grade

Charities Services Tier 3 reporting allows charities under $2M revenue to file a simple-format annual return rather than audited financial statements. The return reports totals but not the program/administration split or the line-item detail our template needs. No red flags were detected in what was filed, and revenue is below the $2M Tier 2 boundary where audited accounts become mandatory. A letter grade is withheld rather than assigning one that would be driven by the template-fit, not the charity's operations. The charity's filed figures are shown above, and any structural concerns a donor would want to look at are surfaced separately. (v3.3 — aligned with Charities Services tier boundary; matches Charity Navigator and CharityWatch US practice.)

How ratings work →
Revenue

$135.9K

Expenses

$132.2K

Assets

$61.7K

Staff

4

Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.

Funder Profile

Grantmaker

This organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.

Funding Sectors
Social Services
Beneficiaries
People with Disabilities
Geographic Focus
Canterbury

About

Mission

To provide information, advice, support and advocacy to beneficiaries, people with disabilities and people on low incomes including the family and whanau of these people.

Who We Serve

Beneficiaries
Family / whanauPeople with disabilitiesOther - All

Key Statistics

Annual Revenue
$135.9K
Total Expenses
$132.2K
Net Assets
$20.9K
Staff
4
employees
Volunteers
0

Financial Trends

Financial Trends (17 Years)

Revenue Breakdown

Expense Breakdown

API Data

Based on annual return data. Detailed program/admin breakdown not available.

Financial Health Dashboard

Cents to the Cause
100c
For every $1 spent, 100c reaches programs
Strong
Sustainability
5.3mo
Could operate 5.3 months with zero revenue
Low reserves
Fundraising Cost
-
No fundraising data
No data

Based on latest annual return data. Metrics are calculated from reported financial data and may not reflect the full picture. View methodology

Revenue Diversification

4
Score /100
Highly Concentrated
HHI: 9,625
High Concentration: 98% of revenue from Other
Other98.1%
Donations1.1%
Investment Income0.7%

HHI (Herfindahl–Hirschman Index) measures concentration across 6 income categories. Lower HHI = more diversified. Score above 60 indicates healthy diversification.

Peer Comparison

Ranked against 140 peers · Social Services · $100K – $1M

Rating Score
0
#33/141
Revenue
$136K
#118/141
Reserve Months
0.0
#1/141
Surplus
$4K
#86/141
Staff Cost %
79%
#141/141

Peers are charities in the same sector and revenue size band. Rankings are based on the latest available data.

Rating

Score: /100
Financial
0
Governance
30
Transparency
65
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Latest Audit

FY2024
Clean
9 years of audit history

Contact Details

Address
Christchurch, Christchurch

Registration

Registration NumberCC21630
Entity TypeTrust
Registered6 Mar 2008
StatusRegistered

Companies Office

StatusRegistered
Entity TypeCharitable Trust
Incorporated25 Sept 1995
Registered office
Christchurch Community House, 301 Tuam St, Christchurch Central, Christchurch

Sector & Activities

Primary Sector
Social Services
Activities
Provides advice / information / advocacy

Data sourced from Charities Services register and publicly available annual returns. Our datasets may not be complete. Automated analysis can produce errors. Scores are calculated using disclosed methodology and are analytical tools, not investment ratings or recommendations. If you believe any data on this page is incorrect, please contact us at hello@charitydata.co.nz. For informational purposes only. Not investment advice. Last updated: 30 September 2026.