Cognition Education Limited — Education Charity in Auckland
Cognition Education Limited is a Charitable Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. Annual revenue: $19.0M NZD. Financial data as at March 2026.
Mission: Cognition Education Limited is a company incorporated in New Zealand and is a registered charity in accordance with the Charities Act 2005. The company is owned by Te Rau Puawai Education Trust which owns all of the shares. The Group provides a complementary range of services and products to meet the needs of education in New Zealand and internationally. The company operates its business in order to provide funds to meet its charitable purpose to its owner, Te Rau Puawai Education Trust. It seeks to maximise returns in operating this business.
- Registration Number
- CC23082
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-04-16
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland
- sryan@cognitionlearninggroup.com
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (company)
- Data as at
- March 2026
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Other charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $19.0M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $19.8M NZD
- Total Assets
- $10.0M NZD
- Net Assets
- $3.0M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 108
- Financial Year End
- 2026-03-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $19.0M | $19.8M | $3.0M |
| 2025 | $17.6M | $20.2M | $3.8M |
| 2024 | $30.6M | $30.4M | $6.3M |
| 2023 | $26.1M | $26.0M | $6.2M |
| 2022 | $15.5M | $15.5M | $6.0M |
| 2021 | $15.7M | $15.2M | $6.0M |
| 2020 | $18.0M | $18.0M | $5.6M |
| 2019 | $25.0M | $23.2M | $5.6M |
| 2018 | $15.3M | $18.7M | $3.9M |
| 2017 | $22.4M | $24.0M | $7.3M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (17)
- Treacy Bell — Director
- Joanne Fair — Director
- David Sullivan — Director
- Alastair Kerr — Director
- Susan Hansen — Director (departed 2022-07-31)
- Alister Jones — Director (departed 2021-12-31)
- Mike Taitoko — Director (departed 2018-03-01)
- Joanne Clayton — Director (departed 2018-03-01)
- Howard Fancy — Director (departed 2017-06-30)
- John Langley — Director (departed 2012-09-07)
- Keith Goodall — Director (departed 2013-03-28)
- Stewart Germann — Director (departed 2014-05-31)
- Carol Moffatt — Director (departed 2011-09-30)
- Chrstopher Morton — Director (departed 2016-12-31)
- John Hattie — Director (departed 2012-07-31)
- Desmond Raymond Hammond — Chief Executive (departed 2008-02-12)
- Ian Henry Cordes — Finance Director (departed 2010-03-17)
Disclosed Pay and Fees
| Name | Role | Role type | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel, including Directors | Group total | $1,015,709 | 2024 |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel, including Directors | Group total | $1,015,709 | - |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel, including Directors | Group total | $1,015,709 | 2025 |
| David Sullivan | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Joanne Fair | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2025 |
| David Sullivan | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Tina Lucas | Chief Executive Officer | Executive role | - | 2025 |
| Tina Lucas | Chief Executive Officer | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Alastair Kerr | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Alastair Kerr | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Treacy Bell | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Tina Lucas | Chief Executive | Executive role | - | 2022 |
| Arran Hamilton | Group Director Education | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Treacy Bell | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2025 |
| Treacy Bell | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| David Sullivan | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Alastair Kerr | Chairman | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Tina Lucas | Chief Executive Officer | Executive role | - | 2024 |
| Alister T Jones | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| David Sullivan | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2025 |
| Susan Hansen | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Alison Wheatly | Managing Director Aspire Development UK | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Joanne Fair | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2024 |
| Alister T Jones | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Sean Ryan | Chief Financial Officer | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| David Sullivan | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| Susan Hansen | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2021 |
| Susan Hansen | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2022 |
| Ian Ormiston | Managing Director International Development | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Tracey Newman | Managing Director UK | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| James Hodgson | Managing Director Wavelength Learning | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Tina Lucas | Chief Executive | Executive role | - | 2021 |
| Sean Ryan | Chief Financial Officer | Executive role | - | 2025 |
| Joanne Fair | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2023 |
| Sean Ryan | Chief Financial Officer | Executive role | - | 2024 |
| Rachel Morriss-Jarvis | Managing Director ANZ | Executive role | - | 2023 |
| Sean Ryan | Chief Financial Officer | Executive role | - | 2021 |
| Sean Ryan | Chief Financial Officer | Executive role | - | 2022 |
| Alastair Kerr | Director | Board or trustee role | - | 2025 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2024)
As disclosed in Cognition Education Limited's annual report.
- UK public sector — Education consultancy and transformation services
Service Providers
- Moore and Smalley
- Moore and Smalley (UK)
- Lloyd Bunyan
- Natwest
- ASB Bank Limited
- Abu Dhabi Islamic Bank
- St George Bank
- Barclays Bank PLC
- Barclays Bank PLC
- Bank of Scotland
- Natwest
- National Bank of Abu Dhabi
- ANZ Solomons
- Barclays Bank PLC
- Bank of Scotland
- ASB Bank Limited
- St George Bank
- St George Bank
- ANZ Solomons
- St George Bank
- ASB Bank Limited
- Barclays Bank PLC
- St George Bank
- ASB Bank Limited
- ASB Bank Limited
- Barclays Bank PLC
- Bank of Scotland
- Real Time Corporate Services
- Real Time Corporate Services
- Real Time Corporate Services
- Real Time Corporate Services
- Clyde & Co
- Clyde & Co
- Advantage Partners Lawyers
- Advantage Partners Lawyers
- TGT Legal
- Shearn Delamore
- Clyde & Co
- Langton Hudson Butcher
- AJ Park
- Clyde & Co
- Langton Hudson Butcher
- Langton Hudson Butcher
- TGT Legal
- Langton Hudson Butcher
- Clyde & Co
- Legal People
- Real Time Corporate Services
- Shearn Delamore
- AJ Park
- Langton Hudson Butcher
- Shearn Delamore
- AJ Park
- Legal People
- Legal People
- Shearn Delamore
- AJ Park
- Legal People
- AJ Park
- Shearn Delamore
- Legal People
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Cognition Education Limited
Financial data as at March 2026. 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 4. 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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$19.0M
$19.8M
$10.0M
108
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2026). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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About
Cognition Education Limited is a company incorporated in New Zealand and is a registered charity in accordance with the Charities Act 2005. The company is owned by Te Rau Puawai Education Trust which owns all of the shares. The Group provides a complementary range of services and products to meet the needs of education in New Zealand and internationally. The company operates its business in order to provide funds to meet its charitable purpose to its owner, Te Rau Puawai Education Trust. It seeks to maximise returns in operating this business.
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Ranked against 3 peers · Education · $10M – $50M
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