Higher Ground Drug Rehabilitation Trust — Health Charity in Auckland
Higher Ground Drug Rehabilitation Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. Annual revenue: $7.2M NZD. Financial data as at March 2026.
Mission: Our mission is to provide tools for transformational change to people affected by severe addiction. In doing so we aim to support recovery for individuals and whánau and to reduce the harm that alcohol and other drug addiction causes in communities and society as a whole.
- Registration Number
- CC20550
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-01-17
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Health
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland
- alwyn@higherground.org.nz
- Data as at
- March 2026
Beneficiaries: Other - All
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $7.2M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $6.8M NZD
- Total Assets
- $16.2M NZD
- Net Assets
- $15.6M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 71
- Financial Year End
- 2026-03-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | $7.2M | $6.8M | $15.6M |
| 2025 | $0.1M | $2.1M | $3.5M |
| 2024 | $6.6M | $6.4M | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $5.9M | $5.6M | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $0.4M | $0.9M | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $0.4M | $0.7M | $4.6M |
| 2020 | $0.3M | $0.9M | $2.6M |
| 2019 | $3.5M | $3.5M | $2.9M |
| 2018 | $3.4M | $3.2M | $2.7M |
| 2017 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $2.3M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (10)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Rachel Scaife | Trustee | 2026-07-20 |
| Tania Sharkey | Trustee | 2025-02-17 |
| Bengkian Birks | Trustee | 2025-02-17 |
| Maree Matthews | Programme Director | 2023-05-22 |
| Janine Parsons | Trustee | 2017-11-13 |
| William Rainger | Trustee | 2010-10-18 |
| Paula Parsonage | Trustee | 2009-06-08 |
| Shane Francis Hussey | Trustee | 2008-01-18 |
| Marino Sherwin | Trustee | 2008-01-18 |
| Antonia Fisher | Trustee | 2008-01-18 |
Former Officers (4)
- Paul Patrick O'Sullivan — Trustee (departed 2026-07-20)
- Fiona Howard — Trustee (departed 2025-12-08)
- Karen Colby — Trustee (departed 2009-09-07)
- Janet Colby — Chair (departed 2022-06-10)
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Higher Ground Drug Rehabilitation Trust
Financial data as at March 2026. Sourced from Charities Services register.
XRB Tier 3 lets smaller charities (total expenses of $5M or less; $2M for periods ending before 28 March 2024) file a simple-format performance report instead of full PBE standards. 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 our $2M rating threshold. (Whether the accounts must be audited is a separate Charities Act test: audit from $1.1M of operating expenditure, review from $550K.) 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 — set at the pre-2024 Tier 3 ceiling; matches Charity Navigator and CharityWatch US practice.)
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- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 9. 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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$7.2M
$6.8M
$16.2M
71
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2026). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
About
Our mission is to provide tools for transformational change to people affected by severe addiction. In doing so we aim to support recovery for individuals and whánau and to reduce the harm that alcohol and other drug addiction causes in communities and society as a whole.
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