Southland Community Law Centre Incorporated — Advocacy Charity in Invercargill
Southland Community Law Centre Incorporated is a Incorporated Society charity in the Advocacy sector, based in Invercargill, Invercargill. Annual revenue: $0.6M NZD. 1 red flag detected. Financial data as at June 2025.
Mission: The Southland Community Law Centre was established in 1991 to provide legal help to people within the community who could not normally afford access to legal help. We are a registered not for profit charity and an Incorporated Society.
- Registration Number
- CC25464
- Charity Type
- Incorporated Society
- Registration Date
- 2008-06-07
- Status
- Active
- Sector
- Advocacy
- Location
- Invercargill, Invercargill
- manager@comlawsth.co.nz
- Data as at
- June 2025
Beneficiaries: Children / young people, Family / whanau, General public, Migrants / refugees, Older people, Other charities, People with disabilities, Voluntary bodies other than charities
Financial Summary
- Total Revenue
- $0.6M NZD
- Total Expenses
- $0.7M NZD
- Total Assets
- $0.3M NZD
- Net Assets
- $0.2M NZD
- Reserve Months
- 0.0 months of operating expenses
- Staff Count
- 9
- Volunteers
- 0
- Financial Year End
- 2025-06-30
Financial History
| Year | Revenue | Expenses | Net Assets |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | $0.6M | $0.7M | $0.2M |
| 2024 | $0.7M | $0.7M | $0.3M |
| 2023 | $0.6M | $0.6M | $0.2M |
| 2022 | $0.6M | $0.5M | $0.2M |
| 2021 | $0.6M | $0.5M | $0.1M |
| 2020 | $0.5M | $0.5M | $0.1M |
| 2019 | $0.5M | $0.4M | $0.1M |
| 2018 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.1M |
| 2017 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
| 2016 | $0.4M | $0.4M | $0.0M |
Board Members and Officers
Current Officers (0)
| Name | Role | Appointed |
|---|
Former Officers (17)
- Aaron King — Treasurer
- Stephnie de Ruyter — Manager
- Sheree Carey — Committee Member
- Darren Ludlow — Trustee
- Debbie Bryan-Lamb — Chair
- Christine Morrison — Trustee (departed 2021-08-03)
- Hugo Young — Trustee (departed 2016-06-30)
- Key Frost — Trustee
- Riki Donnelly — Trustee (departed 2014-12-15)
- Denise Lormans — Trustee (departed 2025-11-13)
- Carol York-pakinga — Trustee (departed 2014-12-15)
- Elsie Freeman — Governance Member (departed 2012-01-01)
- Janette Turner — Committee Member
- Cyril Gilroy — Trustee (departed 2018-11-20)
- Janice Norman - Oke — Secretary (departed 2014-12-15)
- Beryl Ross — Trustee (departed 2018-11-20)
- Timothy Harwood — Governance Member (departed 2011-06-28)
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Southland Community Law Centre Incorporated
Financial data as at June 2025. Sourced from Charities Services register.
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.)
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The Southland Community Law Centre was established in 1991 to provide legal help to people within the community who could not normally afford access to legal help. We are a registered not for profit charity and an Incorporated Society.
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