Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust — Health Charity in Auckland
Auckland Rescue Helicopter Trust is a Trust charity in the Health sector, based in Auckland, Auckland. CharityData rates this charity C+ (69.5/100). Annual revenue: $16.6M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: Provision of emergency, air search, rescue and air ambulance service to encompass the entirety of New Zealand.
- Registration Number
- CC21935
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-03-18
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- C+ (69.5/100)
- Sector
- Health
- Location
- Auckland, Auckland
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $16.6M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $17.0M NZD
- Total Assets
- $38.0M NZD
- Net Assets
- $35.9M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 1.1 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 15
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $16.6M | $17.0M | $35.9M |
| 2024 | $22.3M | $18.4M | $31.3M |
| 2023 | $18.0M | $18.8M | $27.4M |
| 2022 | $15.5M | $16.1M | $28.2M |
| 2021 | $21.2M | $19.9M | $28.7M |
| 2020 | $17.6M | $20.3M | $26.3M |
| 2019 | $14.4M | $13.1M | $29.0M |
| 2018 | $15.0M | $11.6M | $27.9M |
| 2017 | $14.2M | $13.5M | $22.5M |
| 2016 | $15.4M | $14.3M | $3.7M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- C+
- Overall Score
- 69.5/100
- Financial Score
- 100
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
Red Flags
- Average staff compensation of $211,867 per FTE, significantly above sector average of $75,000
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (21)
- Paul Ahlers — Trustee
- Michael Dineen — Trustee
- David Powell — Trustee
- John Duncan — Trustee (departed 2025-02-23)
- John Duncan — Trustee (departed 2025-02-23)
- Nuwanthie Samarakone — Trustee (departed 2024-02-16)
- Scott Rice — Trustee (departed 2024-02-16)
- Jane Sheetz — Trustee
- Lance O'Sullivan — Trustee (departed 2021-04-21)
- Simon Tompkins — Trustee
- John Kirwan — Trustee (departed 2019-06-17)
- JOHN HAWKESBY — Trustee (departed 2017-10-25)
- Craig Marshall — Trustee (departed 2018-10-18)
- Kenneth Baguley — Trustee (departed 2021-11-01)
- Tenby Powell — Trustee (departed 2013-10-22)
- Bob Parkinson — Trustee (departed 2017-10-25)
- Paul Holmes — Trustee (departed 2012-12-14)
- Michelle Boag — Trustee (departed 2020-07-08)
- Rea Wikaira — Trustee (departed 2008-07-31)
- Murray Bolton — Trustee (departed 2019-07-22)
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Grant McCallum | Chair | - | 2019 |
| Stephen Manger | Trustee | - | 2019 |
| Graeme Opie | Trustee | - | 2019 |
| Andrew Tait | Chief Executive Officer | - | 2019 |
| Grant McCallum | Chair | - | 2018 |
| Wally Thomas | Trustee | - | 2018 |
| Peter Larsen | Trustee | - | 2021 |
| Richard Leggat | Trustee | - | 2018 |
| John Mayne | Trustee | - | 2018 |
| David Whyte | Trustee | - | 2018 |
| Craig Foss | Trustee | - | 2018 |
| Craig Sillars | Chief Executive Officer | - | 2018 |
| Bill Gallagher | Chair | - | 2021 |
| Grant McCallum | Trustee | - | 2017 |
| Bryan Gernhøj | Trustee | - | 2018 |
| Mark Skelton | Chief Executive Officer | - | 2017 |
| Paul Jenden | Chair | - | 2017 |
| Cam Dalgliesh | Trustee | - | 2017 |
| John Mooney | Trustee | - | 2019 |
| Andrew Gilmour | Trustee | - | 2017 |
| Grant McCallum | Trustee | - | 2021 |
| Peter Halliday | Trustee | - | 2017 |
| Lynda Tomlinson | Trustee | - | 2019 |
| Fiona Macleod | Trustee | - | 2021 |
| Mark Lill | Chief Executive | - | 2021 |
| Mark Sharman | Trustee | - | 2021 |
Funding Sources
- Four Winds Foundation Limited — $75,000
- Pub Charity Limited — $12,905.86
- Trillian Trust Limited — $2,913.2
Service Providers
- Adelle Wilson
- ANZ Bank New Zealand Limited
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Auckland Rescue Helicopter 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 5. 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.
$16.6M
$17.0M
$38.0M
15
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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Provision of emergency, air search, rescue and air ambulance service to encompass the entirety of New Zealand.
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