Laidlaw College Incorporated — Education Charity in Auckland
Laidlaw College Incorporated is a Incorporated Society charity in the Education sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. CharityData rates this charity B+ (80.6/100). Annual revenue: $15.9M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: Our Mission is to equip students and scholars to renew their communities with a faith as intelligent as it is courageous.
- Registration Number
- CC10249
- Charity Type
- Incorporated Society
- Registration Date
- 2007-05-07
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- B+ (80.6/100)
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland
- aofficer@laidlaw.ac.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: General public, Religious groups
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $15.9M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $14.2M NZD
- Total Assets
- $75.6M NZD
- Net Assets
- $73.5M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 3.3 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 136
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $15.9M | $14.2M | $73.5M |
| 2024 | $12.1M | $13.9M | $71.8M |
| 2023 | $10.3M | $3.3M | $15.6M |
| 2022 | $10.1M | $2.9M | $21.2M |
| 2021 | $11.0M | $3.1M | $25.4M |
| 2020 | $10.7M | $1.9M | $11.5M |
| 2019 | $11.7M | $1.7M | $16.9M |
| 2018 | $7.7M | $1.8M | $13.2M |
| 2017 | $4.8M | $1.7M | $5.2M |
| 2016 | $11.1M | $1.9M | $-3.7M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- B+
- Overall Score
- 80.6/100
- Financial Score
- 97.3
- Governance Score
- 75
- Transparency Score
- 85
Red Flags
- 4 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 (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (55)
- Sydney Habets — Student Representative
- Tracey Hunt — Staff Representative
- Anna Shaw — Chief Operating Officer
- Margot Shutt — Trustee
- Samantha Taylor — Student Representative (departed 2025-11-21)
- Allan Officer — Cfo
- Philip Newman — Chief Operating Officer (departed 2025-04-30)
- Maja Whitaker — Academic Dean
- Monica Whitehead — Trustee (departed 2025-11-21)
- Shona Pink-Martin — Trustee (departed 2026-07-15)
- Susannah Olive — Student Representative (departed 2024-11-29)
- Christopher Hannen — Trustee
- Thomas Scrimgeour — Student Representative (departed 2023-11-09)
- Miriam Fisher — Staff Representative (departed 2025-11-21)
- Gill Pawson — Staff Representative (departed 2022-11-18)
- Joshua Taylor — Trustee
- Monica Fale-Bell — Student Representative (departed 2021-11-26)
- Chris Collins — Chair
- Lui Ponifasio — Trustee (departed 2024-11-29)
- Graham Burt — President
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Senior Leadership Team | $1,058,000 | - |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Senior Leadership Team | $1,058,000 | 2024 |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Council Members / Trustees | $0 | - |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Council Members / Trustees | $0 | 2024 |
| Graham Burt | President | - | 2023 |
| Jessica Palmer | Deputy Chair | - | 2023 |
| Maja Whitaker | Academic Dean | - | 2024 |
| Allan Officer | Chief Financial Officer | - | 2024 |
| Roshan Allpress | National Principal | - | 2023 |
| Allan Officer | Chief Financial Officer | - | 2023 |
| Christopher Collins | National Governing Council Chairperson | - | 2024 |
| Christopher Collins | National Governing Council Chairperson | - | 2023 |
| Roshan Allpress | National Principal | - | 2024 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2024)
As disclosed in Laidlaw College Incorporated's annual report.
- Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) — $4,856,000 — Government funding based on equivalent full-time student (EFTS) levels
- Ministry of Education — Early Childhood Education funding
Service Providers
- RSM
- RSM Hayes Audit
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Laidlaw College Incorporated
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (1)
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.
- Same audit firm for many yearsSame audit firm (RSM Hayes Audit) for 10 consecutive years — best practice rotates audit firms periodically to refresh independent oversight
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.
$15.9M
$14.2M
$75.6M
136
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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Our Mission is to equip students and scholars to renew their communities with a faith as intelligent as it is courageous.
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