Sustainable South Canterbury Trust — Education Charity in Timaru
Sustainable South Canterbury Trust is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Timaru, Timaru. Annual revenue: $0.8M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: To Educate & Inform: Empowering people of all ages and backgrounds to contribute to a more sustainable future for South Canterbury. To Enthuse and Inspire: Providing practical examples and opportunities that stimulate people to learn more, question unsustainable practices and change behaviour for a better future To Facilitate and Enable: Providing the necessary support to assist and enable business, industry, groups and individuals to move towards sustainability To Research and Develop: supporting the search for sustainable solutions to local resource problems.
- Registration Number
- CC31594
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-30
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Education
- Location
- Timaru, Timaru
- brian@scecocentre.org.nz
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: General public, Other - All
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.8M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.7M NZD
- Total Assets
- $1.9M NZD
- Net Assets
- $1.8M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 16
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.8M | $0.7M | $1.8M |
| 2024 | $0.8M | $0.6M | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $0.5M | $0.5M | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.0M | $0.4M | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $0.4M | $0.3M | $0.9M |
| 2020 | $0.5M | $0.3M | $0.8M |
| 2019 | $0.5M | $0.3M | $0.6M |
| 2018 | $0.4M | $0.3M | $0.3M |
| 2017 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.2M |
| 2016 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.2M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (15)
- Leysa Matity — Trustee
- Scotty Mitchell — Trustee
- Jessica Relihan — Trustee
- Keitha Monson — Trustee
- Ronald Lindsay — Trustee
- Kylee Galbraith — Trustee
- Rhys Taylor — Trustee (departed 2025-07-14)
- Horst Elsen — Trustee (departed 2019-07-01)
- Jude Mckenzie — Trustee (departed 2012-05-03)
- Brent Rees — Trustee (departed 2016-11-01)
- Brian Gallagher — Trustee
- Sydney Horgan — Trustee (departed 2021-11-17)
- Ross Wells — Trustee (departed 2024-11-20)
- John Wilson — Trustee (departed 2009-06-30)
- Janice Williams — Trustee (departed 2009-06-30)
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Sustainable South Canterbury Trust
Financial data as at June 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.)
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- No chair recorded on the registerNo chair or presiding role is recorded in the register for this board of 7. 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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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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To Educate & Inform: Empowering people of all ages and backgrounds to contribute to a more sustainable future for South Canterbury. To Enthuse and Inspire: Providing practical examples and opportunities that stimulate people to learn more, question unsustainable practices and change behaviour for a better future To Facilitate and Enable: Providing the necessary support to assist and enable business, industry, groups and individuals to move towards sustainability To Research and Develop: supporting the search for sustainable solutions to local resource problems.
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Ranked against 132 peers · Education · $100K – $1M
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