Southland disAbility Enterprises Charitable Trust — Environment Charity in Invercargill
Southland disAbility Enterprises Charitable Trust is a Trust charity in the Environment sector, based in Invercargill, Invercargill. This organisation also provides funding to other charities. CharityData rates this charity D (49.4/100). Annual revenue: $4.0M NZD. 2 red flags detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: We enrich the lives of people with disabilities through providing meaningful employment & personal development opportunities by operating a successful and sustainable business.
- Registration Number
- CC44077
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2010-04-26
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- D (49.4/100)
- Sector
- Environment
- Location
- Invercargill, Invercargill
- emma@recyclesouth.org.nz
- Funder Status
- Grant-making charity (charitable_trust)
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: People with disabilities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $4.0M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $5.2M NZD
- Total Assets
- $1.9M NZD
- Net Assets
- $1.0M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.2 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 6
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $4.0M | $5.2M | $1.0M |
| 2024 | $4.4M | $4.4M | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $3.9M | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $4.0M | $3.2M | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $3.2M | $2.8M | $2.0M |
| 2020 | $3.4M | $3.0M | $1.7M |
| 2019 | $3.1M | $3.1M | $1.3M |
| 2018 | $3.0M | $3.2M | $1.3M |
| 2017 | $2.9M | $2.9M | $1.5M |
| 2016 | $2.9M | $2.8M | $1.6M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- D
- Overall Score
- 49.4/100
- Financial Score
- 85.6
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
Red Flags
- Average staff compensation of $316,868 per FTE, significantly above sector average of $75,000
- 2 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 (21)
- Shane Pleasance — Trustee
- Donna Cunningham — Trustee
- Stephen O'Connor — Trustee
- Kevin Mair — Trustee (departed 2024-11-05)
- Margaret Fitzgerald — Trustee
- Patricia Lindsay — Trustee
- David Harrington — Trustee (departed 2020-11-23)
- Kristi Rabbitt — Trustee (departed 2020-11-23)
- Catherine Wilson — Trustee (departed 2024-11-05)
- Douglas Harrington — Trustee
- Nicola Milne — Trustee (departed 2017-06-30)
- Candace Bangura — Trustee (departed 2022-04-08)
- Ian Beker — Trustee (departed 2016-12-05)
- Tamara Manley — Trustee (departed 2010-08-28)
- Stuart Collie — Trustee (departed 2024-11-05)
- Kenneth Crosbie — Trustee (departed 2017-06-26)
- Lyndsay Mcdonald — Trustee (departed 2020-11-23)
- Penelope Simmonds — Trustee (departed 2013-04-30)
- Lynette Nielsen — Trustee (departed 2022-03-20)
- Valerie Davidson — Trustee (departed 2020-11-23)
Service Providers
- BDO
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Southland disAbility Enterprises Charitable Trust
Financial data as at June 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.
- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 6. 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.
$4.0M
$5.2M
$1.9M
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
This rating may reflect incomplete data
This charity's grade of D is based on limited data from the NZ Charities Register, which does not provide detailed expense breakdowns. Without verified program vs admin spending, efficiency scoring is unavailable and the financial score relies on health metrics only. This charity's actual performance may differ from what the available data suggests.
Funder Profile
GrantmakerThis organisation makes grants or donations to other charities and organisations.
About
We enrich the lives of people with disabilities through providing meaningful employment & personal development opportunities by operating a successful and sustainable business.
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Ranked against 48 peers · Environment · $1M – $10M
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