Hekeao Hinds Water Enhancement Trust — Environment Charity in Ashburton
Hekeao Hinds Water Enhancement Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Environment sector, based in Ashburton, Ashburton. CharityData rates this charity C (60/100). Annual revenue: $2.6M NZD. 2 red flags detected. Financial data as at March 2025.
Mission: HHWET run water enhancement projects across the Hekeao/Hinds Plains, including New Zealand’s largest managed groundwater rehabilitation project.
- Registration Number
- CC62363
- Charity Type
- Charitable Trust
- Registration Date
- 2024-03-05
- Status
- Active
- CharityData Rating
- C (60/100)
- Sector
- Environment
- Location
- Ashburton, Ashburton
- Website
- https://www.hhwet.org.nz/
- Data as at
- March 2025
Beneficiaries: General public
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $2.6M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $1.4M NZD
- Total Assets
- $4.1M NZD
- Net Assets
- $3.6M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 34.6 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 1
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-03-31
CharityData Rating
- Overall Grade
- C
- Overall Score
- 60/100
- Financial Score
- 72.5
- Governance Score
- 65
- Transparency Score
- 65
- Program Spending Ratio
- 0.8%
Red Flags
- Average staff compensation of $187,730 per FTE, significantly above sector average of $75,000
- Holding 34.6 months of expenses in reserves ($3.6M) — above the 18-month threshold (moderately over threshold). On its own, holding high reserves cannot take a CharityData grade below C, so this grade was held at that level
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (11)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|---|---|
| Elizabeth McMillan | Trustee | 2025-11-21 |
| Campbell Tait | Trustee | 2025-11-21 |
| Fleur Tompsett | Trustee | 2024-02-16 |
| Carolyn Cameron | Trustee | 2024-02-16 |
| Evan Chisnall | Trustee | 2022-11-18 |
| Craig Fleming | Trustee | 2022-03-31 |
| Marcus Murdoch | Trustee | 2021-09-14 |
| Vincent Lobb | Trustee | 2019-10-29 |
| Peter Lowe | Chair | 2019-10-29 |
| Robert McDowell | Trustee | 2019-10-29 |
| Roderick Mackenzie | Trustee | 2019-10-29 |
Former Officers (1)
- Alister Argyle — Trustee (departed 2025-11-21)
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Hekeao Hinds Water Enhancement Trust
Financial data as at March 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 11. 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.
$2.6M
$1.4M
$4.1M
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Financial data from Charities Services annual return (FY2025). Ratings calculated using CharityData v3.1.1 methodology.
About
HHWET run water enhancement projects across the Hekeao/Hinds Plains, including New Zealand’s largest managed groundwater rehabilitation project.
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Revenue Diversification
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Ranked against 56 peers · Environment · $1M – $10M
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