Aspire - Community Support — Arts & Culture Charity in Hamilton

Aspire - Community Support is a Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Hamilton, Hamilton. CharityData rates this charity A (92.5/100). Annual revenue: $21.3M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.

Mission: To support people with any kind of disability or impairment to live their life to the fullest. In particular the Trust will provide tailored support services including but not limited to residential and supported living, vocational, community mentoring, specialist supports, self advocacy, partnership development, organisational capacity building and culture development, sector development support and collaboration.

Registration Number
CC56941
Charity Type
Trust
Registration Date
2019-05-16
Status
Active
CharityData Rating
A (92.5/100)
Sector
Arts & Culture
Location
Hamilton, Hamilton
Email
finance@aspire.org.nz
Data as at
June 2025

Beneficiaries: People with disabilities

Financial Summary

Total Revenue
$21.3M NZD
Total Expenses
$20.4M NZD
Total Assets
$12.3M NZD
Net Assets
$8.2M NZD
Reserve Months
4.8 months of operating expenses
Financial Year End
2025-06-30

Financial History

YearRevenueExpensesNet Assets
2025$21.3M$20.4M$8.2M
2024$20.9M$19.8M$7.2M
2023$17.5M$16.6M$6.0M
2022$15.5M$14.2M$5.1M
2021$10.8M$10.4M$3.9M
2020$8.1M$7.8M$3.5M

CharityData Rating

Overall Grade
A
Overall Score
92.5/100
Financial Score
100
Governance Score
75
Transparency Score
65

Board Members and Officers

Current Officers (0)

NameRoleAppointed

Former Officers (9)

  • Lemaluotiafau Faiaoga — Trustee
  • Neville Hablous — Chair
  • Judith Fynn — Acting Chief Executive (departed 2022-09-28)
  • Manu Sione — Trustee (departed 2022-03-31)
  • Russell Drake — Board Member Chair People, Performance, Quality & Wellbeing Committee
  • Kevin Bartels — Board Member Chair Finance Committee
  • Neville Puckey — Trustee
  • Simone Molenaar — CEO (departed 2021-06-25)
  • Bernadette Doube — Trustee

Executive Compensation

NameRoleCompensationYear
Max SheridanTrustee-2025
Jane DeansTrustee-2025
Michelle FearonTrustee-2025
Alistair ZullTrustee-2025
David GumbleyTrustee-2025
Garry MooreTrustee-2022
Paul PicardTrustee-2025
Grant CunninghamTrustee-2025
Dr Geraint MartinChief Executive Officer-2022
Murray HornChair-2022
Craig GarnerTrustee-2025
Anthony WilkinsonTrustee-2025
Dale WoodfordTrustee-2025
Owen DurningTrustee-2025
Jo HarleyTrustee-2025
Kaye BevanTrustee-2025
Jill LeesTrustee-2025
Alison GouldTrustee-2022
Grant McCallumChair-2025
Paul BoyesTrustee-2022
Christine RankinTrustee-2022
Cheryl JacobsonTrustee-2025
Elaine CormackTrustee-2025
Peter KeanTrustee-2022
Mark WightmanTrustee-2025

Funding Sources

  • Lion Foundation — $10,000

Service Providers

  • Bernard Lamusse

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Aspire - Community Support

CC56941Hamilton, HamiltonRegistered 16 May 2019
Data updated: 2 days ago
Financials30 Jun 2025Rating2d ago

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

A
93/100
Financial
100
Governance
75
Transparency
65

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.

  • Government-funding concentration
    99% of latest-year revenue came from government grants — single-stream dependency

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.

Revenue

$21.3M

Expenses

$20.4M

Assets

$12.3M

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

About

Mission

To support people with any kind of disability or impairment to live their life to the fullest. In particular the Trust will provide tailored support services including but not limited to residential and supported living, vocational, community mentoring, specialist supports, self advocacy, partnership development, organisational capacity building and culture development, sector development support and collaboration.

Who We Serve

Beneficiaries
People with disabilities

Key Statistics

Annual Revenue
$21.3M
Total Expenses
$20.4M
Net Assets
$8.2M

Financial Trends

Financial Trends (6 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
0mo
Could operate 0 months with zero revenue
Critical
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: 9,724
High Concentration: 99% of revenue from Government Grants
Government Grants98.6%
Other1.4%

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

Peer Comparison

Ranked against 500 peers · Arts & Culture (all sizes)

Rating Score
93
#1/501
Revenue
$21.3M
#2/501
Reserve Months
4.8
#1/501
Surplus
$967K
#5/501
Staff Cost %
81%
#501/501

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

Rating

A
Score: 92.5/100
Financial
100
Governance
75
Transparency
65
Why this grade: Financial 100 × 40% + Governance 75 × 60% = 85 → A.
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Contact Details

Address
Hamilton, Hamilton

Registration

Registration NumberCC56941
Entity TypeTrust
Registered16 May 2019
StatusRegistered

Companies Office

StatusRegistered
Entity TypeCharitable Trust
Incorporated13 May 2019

Sector & Activities

Primary Sector
Arts & Culture
Activities
Provides services (e.g. care / counselling)

Data sourced from Charities Services register and publicly available annual returns. Our datasets may not be complete. Automated analysis can produce errors. Scores are calculated using disclosed methodology and are analytical tools, not investment ratings or recommendations. If you believe any data on this page is incorrect, please contact us at hello@charitydata.co.nz. For informational purposes only. Not investment advice. Last updated: 28 September 2026.