The Freemasons' Museum and Heritage Trust — Arts & Culture Charity in Wellington

The Freemasons' Museum and Heritage Trust is a Charitable Trust charity in the Arts & Culture sector, based in Wellington, Wellington. Annual revenue: $0.0M NZD. Financial data as at June 2025.

The Freemasons' Museum and Heritage Trust is part of the same organisation as The Freemasons Charity (CC46016), Lawson-Smith Freemasons Education Trust (CC46015). Each registration files its own accounts.

Mission: The Freemasons Museum and Heritage Trust was established to maintain, develop and operate public museums in New Zealand ; to acquire, preserve, research and exhibit objects and matters relating to Freemasonry; to acquire, maintain, preserve, alter and improve buildings in New Zealand of masonic significance for public display

Registration Number
CC43519
Charity Type
Charitable Trust
Registration Date
2008-06-30
Status
Active
Sector
Arts & Culture
Location
Wellington, Wellington
Email
accounts@freemasonsnz.org
Data as at
June 2025

Beneficiaries: Children / young people, General public, Older people, Voluntary bodies other than charities

Financial Summary

Total Revenue
$0.0M NZD
Reserve Months
0.0 months of operating expenses
Volunteers
0
Financial Year End
2025-06-30

Financial History

YearRevenueExpensesNet Assets
2025$0.0M--
2024$0.0M$0.0M-
2023$0.0M$0.0M-
2022$0.0M$0.0M-
2021$0.0M$0.0M-
2020$0.0M--
2019$0.1M--
2018$0.0M$0.0M-
2017$0.0M$0.0M-
2016$0.0M$0.0M-

Board Members and Officers

Current Officers (2)

NameRoleAppointed
Anthony FallonTrustee2025-12-31
Andrew CowieExecutive Officer2023-11-01

Former Officers (25)

  • Leon Grandy — Trustee
  • Michael Turner — Trustee
  • Mark Bunting — Trustee
  • David Piper — Trustee (departed 2025-10-25)
  • Warwick Bell — Trustee
  • Paul Chappel — Trustee (departed 2025-10-25)
  • Graham Wrigley — Trustee
  • Donald Seath — Trustee
  • Patrick Cooney — Trustee (departed 2022-11-12)
  • Neville Patrick — Trustee
  • Edwin Eeles — Trustee (departed 2024-11-09)
  • Stephen Salmon — Trustee (departed 2024-11-09)
  • Gareth Turner — Authorised Officer & Executive Director, Freemasons Nz (departed 2019-04-29)
  • John Litton — Trustee (departed 2019-11-16)
  • John Pope — Trustee (departed 2019-11-16)
  • Laurence Milton — Authorised Officer (departed 2017-12-02)
  • Donald McLaggan — Trustee (departed 2016-06-21)
  • Michael Scott — Trustee (departed 2022-08-30)
  • Selwyn Cooper — Trustee (departed 2022-08-29)
  • Leslie Green — Trustee (departed 2022-11-12)

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The Freemasons' Museum and Heritage Trust

CC43519Wellington, WellingtonRegistered 30 Jun 2008
Data updated: 2 days ago
Financials30 Jun 2025Rating3d ago

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

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Not rated — Insufficient financial data

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Revenue

$1.1K

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

About

Mission

The Freemasons Museum and Heritage Trust was established to maintain, develop and operate public museums in New Zealand ; to acquire, preserve, research and exhibit objects and matters relating to Freemasonry; to acquire, maintain, preserve, alter and improve buildings in New Zealand of masonic significance for public display

Who We Serve

Beneficiaries
Children / young peopleGeneral publicOlder peopleVoluntary bodies other than charities

Key Statistics

Annual Revenue
$1.1K
Total Expenses
-
Net Assets
-
Volunteers
0

Financial Trends

Financial Trends (17 Years)

Revenue Breakdown

Financial Health Dashboard

Cents to the Cause
-
Insufficient data
No data
Sustainability
-
Insufficient data
No data
Fundraising Cost
-
No fundraising data
No data

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Revenue Diversification

0
Score /100
Highly Concentrated
HHI: 10,000
High Concentration: 100% of revenue from Investment Income
Investment Income100.0%

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

Peer Comparison

Ranked against 350 peers · Arts & Culture · Under $100K

Rating Score
0
#58/351
Revenue
$1K
#322/351
Reserve Months
0.0
#1/351
Surplus
$1K
#137/351
Staff Cost %
0%
#1/351

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

Rating

Score: /100
Financial
0
Governance
0
Transparency
0
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Latest Audit

FY2019
Clean
4 years of audit history

Contact Details

Address
Wellington, Wellington

Registration

Registration NumberCC43519
Entity TypeCharitable Trust
Registered30 Jun 2008
StatusRegistered

Companies Office

StatusRegistered
Entity TypeCharitable Trust
Incorporated3 Oct 2006
Registered office
Flat 2, 22 Tacy Street, Kilbirnie, Wellington

Sector & Activities

Primary Sector
Arts & Culture
Activities
Other - Acts an Umbrella body

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