Life Education Trust Manawatu — Education Charity in Palmerston North
Life Education Trust Manawatu is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Palmerston North, Palmerston North. Annual revenue: $0.2M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: To educate and inspire generations to embrace positive choices for a healthy mind and body.
- Registration Number
- CC21906
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-03-17
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Palmerston North, Palmerston North
- manawatu@lifeedtrust.org.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.2M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.1M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.1M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 2
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2024 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2023 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2022 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2021 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2020 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.2M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.0M |
| 2016 | $0.1M | $0.1M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (9)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Ngaire Leins | Trustee | 2025-09-30 |
| Amy Penn | Executive Officer | 2024-06-05 |
| Anais Thorne | Financial Administrator | 2024-02-01 |
| Brian Henderson | Trustee | 2022-11-22 |
| Tracey Alston | Trustee | 2022-11-22 |
| Mia Broughton | Trustee | 2021-11-17 |
| Joce Goodman | Trustee | 2018-07-24 |
| Katherine Cave | Trustee | 2017-02-07 |
| Gina Bailey | Trustee | 1922-12-22 |
Former Officers (23)
- Anthony Stephenson — Trustee (departed 2023-10-01)
- Robyn King — Financial Administrator (departed 2024-03-31)
- Shannon Johnston — Trustee (departed 1923-11-18)
- Jordyn McCaskie — Trustee (departed 2021-12-31)
- Christine Blithe — Trustee (departed 2020-06-02)
- Alexander Edmonds — Trustee (departed 2022-11-22)
- Roger Buchanan — Administrator (departed 2018-05-22)
- Anna Stephenson — Trustee (departed 2018-11-22)
- Michelle Reid — Trustee (departed 2018-05-22)
- Christine Vangioni — Trustee (departed 2020-11-10)
- Christine Vangiona — Trustee (departed 2016-02-08)
- Sean Pannifer — Treasurer (departed 2017-05-25)
- Mark Ammunsden — Trustee (departed 2018-05-22)
- Wendy Blithe — Trustee (departed 2011-07-14)
- Robert O'Brien — Trustee (departed 2011-05-16)
- Charles Little — Trustee (departed 2016-12-31)
- Karen Davidson — Trustee (departed 2012-12-11)
- Andrew Sievwright — Trustee (departed 2018-05-22)
- Derek Walker — Trustee (departed 2009-03-31)
- Gary Dome — Trustee (departed 2014-05-20)
Funding Sources
- Grassroots Trust Central Limited — $17,616
- The Lion Foundation — $16,000
- Trillian Trust — $10,310.3
- Lion Foundation — $10,022
- Mainland Foundation Limited — $4,670
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Life Education Trust Manawatu
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
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 →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.
- 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.
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.
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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To educate and inspire generations to embrace positive choices for a healthy mind and body.
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Ranked against 132 peers · Education · $100K – $1M
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