Queen Margaret College Incorporated — Education Charity in Wellington
Queen Margaret College Incorporated is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Wellington, Wellington. CharityData rates this charity C (64.3/100). Annual revenue: $22.4M NZD. Financial data as at December 2025.
Mission: Independent, Presbyterian girls' school for Years 1-13 and preschool for girls and boys 3-5 years. Founders' stated ideals to provide girls' with a sound intellectual and moral education, and to build up a strong Christian character on a broad religious basis, and thus to produce the best type of girlhood and womanhood.
- Registration Number
- CC25336
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-04
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- C (64.3/100)
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Wellington, Wellington
- bursar@qmc.school.nz
- Data as at
- December 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Other charities, Voluntary bodies other than charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $22.4M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $22.1M NZD
- Total Assets
- $28.9M NZD
- Net Assets
- $15.5M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 1.2 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 140
- Financial Year End
- 2025-12-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $22.4M | $22.1M | $15.5M |
| 2024 | $20.4M | $20.1M | $15.2M |
| 2023 | $17.3M | $17.3M | $14.9M |
| 2022 | $16.9M | $16.1M | $14.9M |
| 2021 | $15.9M | $15.6M | $14.1M |
| 2020 | $15.6M | $15.1M | $13.8M |
| 2019 | $14.0M | $13.8M | $13.2M |
| 2018 | $12.5M | $12.8M | $13.0M |
| 2017 | $11.8M | $11.5M | $13.3M |
| 2016 | $11.9M | $11.3M | $13.0M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- C
- Overall Score
- 64.3/100
- Financial Score
- 64
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 85
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (53)
- Ursula Featherston — Trustee
- Richard Li — Trustee
- Feiloaiga Taulealeausumai — Trustee
- Samuel Cottier — Trustee
- Jennifer Wademan — Trustee
- Paul Sherris — Director Finance and Operations (departed 2025-07-10)
- Kathryn Sutherland — Trustee (departed 2025-03-31)
- Christopher Thurston-Redpath — Trustee
- Claire Carruthers — Trustee
- Anna Lillis — Trustee
- Thu Phuong Truong — Trustee
- Andrew Knight — Trustee (departed 2022-12-01)
- Odette Frost-Kruse — Trustee
- Sarah Taylor — Trustee (departed 2024-03-23)
- Nicola Nicol — Trustee (departed 2022-12-01)
- Rebecca Mannion — Board Secretary (departed 2021-08-20)
- Guergana Guermanoff — Trustee (departed 2019-05-01)
- John Young — Trustee (departed 2022-03-31)
- Sarah Burke — Trustee
- Simon Law — Trustee (departed 2022-12-01)
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel | $1,484,848 | - |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | Key Management Personnel | $1,484,848 | 2024 |
| Anna Lillis | Board of Governors Chair | - | 2023 |
| Jayne-Ann Young | Principal | - | 2023 |
| Peter Kతls | Chair | - | 2021 |
| Chris Redpath | Finance Committee Chair | - | 2023 |
| Lynne Dovey | Board of Governors Chair | - | 2022 |
| Chris Redpath | Finance Committee Chair | - | 2022 |
| Lynne Dovey | Board of Governors | - | 2021 |
| John Gillespie | Board Member | - | 2021 |
| Rose Leahy | Board Member | - | 2021 |
| Sarah Dunn | Board Member | - | 2021 |
| Jenny Fergusson | Board Member | - | 2021 |
| Catherine Young | Principal | - | 2021 |
| Jayne-Ann Young | Principal | - | 2024 |
| Anna Lillis | Board of Governors Chair | - | 2024 |
| Chris Redpath | Board of Governors member | - | 2024 |
| Richard Levin | Board Member | - | 2021 |
| Karen Whitby | Board Member | - | 2021 |
| Andrew Knight | Board of Governors | - | 2021 |
| Jayne-Ann Young | Principal | - | 2022 |
Major Funders and Contracts (FY2021)
As disclosed in Queen Margaret College Incorporated's annual report.
- Te Tāhuhu o te Mātauranga | Ministry of Education — $1,509,665 (9.5% of revenue) — Government grants
Service Providers
- Hamish Anton
- Westpac Bank
- ANZ Bank
- ANZ Bank
- Westpac
- Westpac
- ANZ
- ANZ
- Westpac
- AXA
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Queen Margaret College Incorporated
Financial data as at December 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
Reasons to look carefully (1)
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- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 13. 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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$22.4M
$22.1M
$28.9M
140
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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Independent, Presbyterian girls' school for Years 1-13 and preschool for girls and boys 3-5 years. Founders' stated ideals to provide girls' with a sound intellectual and moral education, and to build up a strong Christian character on a broad religious basis, and thus to produce the best type of girlhood and womanhood.
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