"The Incubator" Growing Art and Culture Charitable Trust Board — Education Charity in Tauranga

"The Incubator" Growing Art and Culture Charitable Trust Board is a Trust charity in the Education sector, based in Tauranga, Tauranga. Annual revenue: $0.9M NZD. Financial data as at March 2025.

Mission: The Incubator Creative Hub is a unique enterprise based at the Historic Village in Tauranga. Spawned from a simple idea for a platform to connect the creative sector. It has now become a centre for artistic innovation and creative expression. A creative arts experience can transcend and combine cultures, sparking ideas and positive intentions changing how people view themselves and the world around them. Currently, a small management team supports delivery of an extensive and diverse range of creative programmes, activities and events on a daily basis. This includes regular art education programmes, public workshops, training, music performance and exhibitions, through to large scale events and festivals that see thousands of people visit from across the region and beyond.

Registration Number
CC50884
Charity Type
Trust
Registration Date
2014-03-19
Status
Active
Sector
Education
Location
Tauranga, Tauranga
Email
info@theincubator.co.nz
Data as at
March 2025

Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Migrants / refugees, Other charities, People with disabilities, Voluntary bodies other than charities

Financial Summary

Total Revenue
$0.9M NZD
Total Expenses
$0.9M NZD
Total Assets
$1.0M NZD
Net Assets
$0.8M NZD
Reserve Months
0.0 months of operating expenses
Staff Count
10
Volunteers
3
Financial Year End
2025-03-31

Financial History

YearRevenueExpensesNet Assets
2025$0.9M$0.9M$0.8M
2024$1.0M$1.0M$0.4M
2023$1.0M$0.8M$0.7M
2022$0.6M$0.6M$0.5M
2021$0.6M$0.5M$0.5M
2020$0.5M$0.5M$0.4M
2019$0.4M$0.4M$0.1M
2018$0.3M$0.2M$0.1M
2017$0.1M$0.1M$0.0M
2016$0.1M$0.1M$0.0M

Board Members and Officers

Current Officers (0)

NameRoleAppointed

Former Officers (25)

  • Simone Anderson — Founder
  • James Wilson — Trustee
  • Amanda Weatherley — Trustee (departed 2025-11-27)
  • Tracey Cooper — Trustee (departed 2026-05-06)
  • Toni Hadlee — Trustee (departed 2024-10-25)
  • Marcel Hediger — Trustee
  • Phil Hayhoe — Chair-of-the-Trust-Trustee
  • Kathleen Wilson — Trustee (departed 2022-03-07)
  • Sumit Oza — Trustee (departed 2019-07-25)
  • Nick Pharo — Trustee (departed 2022-02-25)
  • Paula Trubshaw — Trustee (departed 2020-05-01)
  • Emlyn Hatch — Trustee (departed 2019-07-25)
  • Gordon Lockhart — Trustee (departed 2019-02-01)
  • Natalie Bridges — Trustee (departed 2018-10-01)
  • Francisca Vogelzang — Chair (departed 2021-01-29)
  • Melanie Walker — Trustee (departed 2018-12-10)
  • Larissa Allen — Trustee (departed 2018-09-01)
  • Max Greer — Trustee-Treasurer
  • Murray Clode — Trustee (departed 2017-05-04)
  • Catherine Andersen — Trustee (departed 2017-02-20)

Funding Sources

  • Pub Charity Limited — $7,254

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"The Incubator" Growing Art and Culture Charitable Trust Board

CC50884Tauranga, TaurangaRegistered 19 Mar 2014
Data updated: 3 days ago
Financials31 Mar 2025Rating2d ago

Financial data as at March 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.

NR
Not rated — Summary-form filing — not enough detail to grade

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 →
Revenue

$931.8K

Expenses

$912.5K

Assets

$1.0M

Staff

10

Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.

About

Mission

The Incubator Creative Hub is a unique enterprise based at the Historic Village in Tauranga. Spawned from a simple idea for a platform to connect the creative sector. It has now become a centre for artistic innovation and creative expression. A creative arts experience can transcend and combine cultures, sparking ideas and positive intentions changing how people view themselves and the world around them. Currently, a small management team supports delivery of an extensive and diverse range of creative programmes, activities and events on a daily basis. This includes regular art education programmes, public workshops, training, music performance and exhibitions, through to large scale events and festivals that see thousands of people visit from across the region and beyond.

Who We Serve

Beneficiaries
Children / young peopleFamily / whanauGeneral publicMigrants / refugeesOther charitiesPeople with disabilitiesVoluntary bodies other than charities

Key Statistics

Annual Revenue
$931.8K
Total Expenses
$912.5K
Net Assets
$763.6K
Staff
10
employees
Volunteers
3

Financial Trends

Financial Trends (12 Years)

Revenue Breakdown

Expense Breakdown

API Data

Based on annual return data. Detailed program/admin breakdown not available.

Financial Health Dashboard

Cents to the Cause
100c
For every $1 spent, 100c reaches programs
Strong
Sustainability
7.1mo
Could operate 7.1 months with zero revenue
Healthy
Fundraising Cost
-
No fundraising data
No data

Based on latest annual return data. Metrics are calculated from reported financial data and may not reflect the full picture. View methodology

Revenue Diversification

3
Score /100
Highly Concentrated
HHI: 9,665
High Concentration: 98% of revenue from Other
Other98.3%
Investment Income1.3%
Donations0.4%

HHI (Herfindahl–Hirschman Index) measures concentration across 6 income categories. Lower HHI = more diversified. Score above 60 indicates healthy diversification.

Peer Comparison

Ranked against 132 peers · Education · $100K – $1M

Rating Score
0
#38/133
Revenue
$932K
#5/133
Reserve Months
0.0
#1/133
Surplus
$19K
#73/133
Staff Cost %
62%
#133/133

Peers are charities in the same sector and revenue size band. Rankings are based on the latest available data.

Rating

Score: /100
Financial
0
Governance
20
Transparency
65
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Contact Details

Address
Tauranga, Tauranga

Registration

Registration NumberCC50884
Entity TypeTrust
Registered19 Mar 2014
StatusRegistered

Companies Office

StatusRegistered
Entity TypeCharitable Trust
Incorporated11 Dec 2013
Registered office
The Incubator 155 17th Avenue Tauranga, Tauranga

Sector & Activities

Primary Sector
Education
Activities
Other - Acts an Umbrella body

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