The Common Unity Project — Health Charity in Lower Hutt
The Common Unity Project is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt. Annual revenue: $0.3M NZD. Financial data as at March 2025.
Mission: We are a community-based urban farm and enterprise project, growing food, skills and leadership with local families. The overall purpose of the Trust is to grow vibrant and resilient local communities, recognising that this is inseparable from restoring and protecting the health of the environment, by lighting the magic in communities.
- Registration Number
- CC48997
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2013-03-22
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Health
- Location
- Lower Hutt, Lower Hutt
- finance@cupa.org.nz
- Data as at
- March 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Voluntary bodies other than charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.3M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.3M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.2M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.1M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 7
- Volunteers
- 1
- Financial Year End
- 2025-03-31
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.1M |
| 2024 | $0.4M | $0.6M | $0.1M |
| 2023 | $0.7M | $1.0M | $0.3M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $0.6M |
| 2021 | $0.8M | $0.6M | $0.4M |
| 2020 | $0.5M | $0.5M | $0.3M |
| 2019 | $0.5M | $0.4M | $0.3M |
| 2018 | $0.3M | $0.3M | $0.2M |
| 2017 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.2M |
| 2016 | $0.2M | $0.2M | $0.1M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (2)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Brent Chalmers | Trustee | 2026-05-14 |
| (Chih Hung) Christine Hudson | Trustee | 2026-03-01 |
Former Officers (34)
- Peggy Luke-Ngaheke — Trustee (departed 2026-07-20)
- Brent Skinnon — Trustee
- Hannah Pilbrow — Trustee (departed 2024-09-01)
- Andrew Mitchell — Trustee
- Kristie Carter — Trustee
- Sally Babington — Trustee (departed 2023-08-25)
- Frances Herrington — Chair
- Katie Brown — Trustee (departed 2022-05-03)
- Finn Collins — Trustee (departed 2023-08-14)
- Murray Lu — Trustee (departed 2023-06-30)
- Gretchen Leuthart — Trustee (departed 2023-06-30)
- Leanne Dawson — Trustee (departed 2024-03-18)
- Christopher Northmore — Trustee (departed 2025-12-15)
- Wayne Paaka — Trustee (departed 2019-12-28)
- Anna McMartin — Trustee (departed 2019-12-28)
- Anna Griffiths — Trustee (departed 2019-08-31)
- Kerrin Eckersley / Gallagher — Trustee (departed 2020-12-01)
- Carolyn Watts — Trustee (departed 2021-04-01)
- Mary-Jane Rivers — Trustee (departed 2019-12-28)
- Mei Ling Sim — Trustee (departed 2017-02-15)
Funding Sources
- Pub Charity Limited — $7,000
- Pelorus Trust — $4,317.5
- Kiwi Gaming Foundation Limited — $3,000
- Pelorus Trust — $1,489.59
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The Common Unity Project
Financial data as at March 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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We are a community-based urban farm and enterprise project, growing food, skills and leadership with local families. The overall purpose of the Trust is to grow vibrant and resilient local communities, recognising that this is inseparable from restoring and protecting the health of the environment, by lighting the magic in communities.
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