Habitat for Humanity (Nelson) Limited — Community Development Charity in Nelson
Habitat for Humanity (Nelson) Limited is a Trust charity in the Community Development sector, based in Nelson, Nelson. CharityData rates this charity B (79.5/100). Annual revenue: $4.8M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: To provide a decent place for everyone to live - within NZ and throughout the world
- Registration Number
- CC24835
- Charity Type
- Trust
- Registration Date
- 2008-05-25
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- B (79.5/100)
- Sector
- Community Development
- Location
- Nelson, Nelson
- sandra.maxfield@habitat.org.nz
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, Older people
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $4.8M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.8M NZD
- Total Assets
- $5.8M NZD
- Net Assets
- $-4.4M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 6.7 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 44
- Volunteers
- 4
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $4.8M | $0.8M | $-4.4M |
| 2024 | $4.8M | $0.7M | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $5.0M | $0.8M | $-1.0M |
| 2022 | $4.4M | $0.5M | $-2.1M |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $0.4M | $-2.2M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $-2.2M |
| 2019 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1.9M |
| 2018 | $0.8M | $0.3M | $-0.5M |
| 2017 | $0.4M | $0.6M | $2.3M |
| 2016 | $0.2M | $0.5M | $2.1M |
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- B
- Overall Score
- 79.5/100
- Financial Score
- 100
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 85
Red Flags
- 2 trustees of this charity also sit on multiple other charity boards — concentrated trustee bandwidth may warrant board-skill-mix review.
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (1)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Sarah-Jane Weir | Director | 2026-07-03 |
Former Officers (28)
- Joanne Monaghan — Director
- David Gunter — Director
- Scott Howley — Cfo
- Katrina bach — CEO
- David Toon — Director
- Jacoba O'Neill — Director (departed 2023-10-24)
- Garry Nott — Director (departed 2024-10-21)
- David Cairns — Director (departed 2022-02-22)
- Brian Egerton — Director (departed 2025-11-17)
- Andrew Riordan — Director
- Cindy Crasborn — Director (departed 2021-11-29)
- Judene Edgar — Director (departed 2019-04-24)
- Brendon Silcock — Director (departed 2021-11-29)
- Rowan Puklowski — Director (departed 2019-09-23)
- Claude Silcock — Director (departed 2019-04-24)
- Ian Knight — Director (departed 2017-12-08)
- Darren Stevenson — Director (departed 2016-10-31)
- Gilbert Mills — Treasurer/director (departed 2009-11-26)
- Keith South — Committee Member (departed 2014-06-01)
- Julian Shields — Chair (departed 2014-06-01)
Executive Compensation
| Name | Role | Compensation | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | KMP (Chief Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Finance & Administration, Manager Housing Strategy and Programmes, Restore Managers, Assistant Manager, Café Manager) | $518,503 | 2025 |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | KMP (Chief Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Finance & Administration, Manager Housing Strategy and Programmes, Restore Managers, Assistant Manager, Café Manager) | $518,503 | - |
| Key Management Personnel (aggregate) | KMP (Chief Executive, Chief Financial Officer, Head of Finance & Administration, Manager Housing Strategy and Programmes, Restore Managers, Assistant Manager, Café Manager) | $518,503 | 2023 |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Board Members | $0 | 2023 |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Board Members | $0 | 2025 |
| Board/Trustees (unpaid) | Board Members | $0 | - |
Funding Sources
- Mainland Foundation Limited — $77,648
- Pub Charity Limited — $25,000
- The Lion Foundation — $20,000
Service Providers
- Grant Thornton
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Habitat for Humanity (Nelson) Limited
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 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.
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.
$4.8M
$844.6K
$5.8M
44
Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
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To provide a decent place for everyone to live - within NZ and throughout the world
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Ranked against 54 peers · Community Development · $1M – $10M
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