The nature of sports organisations is that they are often reliant on committee volunteers to run the organisation, volunteers who are also engaged with coaching, managing and other parts of the club. Avon Hockey has partnered with Thea Mickell Services for over 4 years, and they have provided us fantastic assistance in funding important projects and growth of our proud hockey club. This frees up valuable time for myself, as Treasurer, to attend to the time intensive administration/finance work required to keep our club operating.

Thea and her team provide exceptional and professional service to our club to support our operation. We primarily work with Alison Black who is extremely knowledgeable of our needs and is always quick to provide excellent funding recommendations to us. She has at many times dropped everything for us to provide urgent funding support for our club. We have no hesitation recommending Thea and her fantastic team to support your organisation!

Kurt Gurden
Treasurer of Avon Hockey Club

I enjoy working with Thea and her team, and appreciate their advice and productive efforts. Significant projects at CBHS have been accomplished due to their commitment.


Nic Hill
Headmaster of Christchurch Boys' High School

If you are reading these few words you are undoubtedly considering engaging Thea Mickell Services to provide administrative support and/or funding advice and expertise for your organisation. I am involved in a number of sports and recreational not-4-profits and a significant educational entity that make extensive use of the services offered by Thea and her team. We are definitely satisfied customers.


Applying for capital or operational funding support requires expertise and knowledge of the sector. Administrative support for a club, school or not-4-profit organisation will bring professional-standard qualities to your organisation, which may well be missing at this time. My advice to you and your organisation is to bring Thea and her team on board. You will not regret it.


Alan Direen
Board Chair/Member of Kingslea School, Evolocity Ltd and Eastern Sport

Eastern Sport has been a partner with Thea Mickell Services for the last 7 years. We credit this partnership with much of the success of our organisation's ability to understand opportunities and to act on them quickly. TMS has provided us with quality administrative and professional support across a range of business areas including financial, reporting, compliance, health and safety, human resource management, and funding.

They are professional, easy to work with, passionate about community sport and recreation and highly capable. I would have no hesitation in recommending this organisation.


Peter Burley
Board Chair of Eastern Sport

I have known Thea Mickell for a number of years as a committed member for both the Blue Light and Dare committees

Thea’s external (of Police) perspective has always been refreshing. She has asked the hard questions when they have been needed and has never been afraid to challenge decisions made.

Thea’s links in the community are considerable and her passion for community and particularly children is unequalled. Thea will go out of her way to make things happen. This includes getting in there and doing things herself when they need to be done. It also includes volunteering her children, family and friends to help when needed.

She is hard working, thoughtful, considerate, and trustworthy. I have loved working with Thea, I know that I can always count on her to give good advice, do what she says she is going to do and chase down leads and potential future opportunities which may arise.

Thea’s experience and expertise in governance and finance has been invaluable over the years. Seldom do you get the combination of someone who not only knows what they are doing, but is equally willing to actually do it.


Andrea Dahl
NZ Police

Thea Mickell Services have provided Our Lady of Victories School with great advice and support in making applications on our behalf to funding trusts. Their service is always most professional and allows us to source funding that we would not be able to do with our lack of knowledge and resources to do so. Their team are a pleasure to work with.

In another capacity I have also been involved with Thea Mickell Service’s in a not- for –profit orgnisation. The advice and guidance that they provided in this instance through Thea was outstanding and certainly made our group much easier to govern and manage. The expertise that they have gained over time was most beneficial to groups such as ours.

I am very happy to endorse Thea Mickell Services as a one stop shop for not-for-profit advice as well as funding. They are able to use their expertise and save the groups that they act for much time and energy.


Denis Aberhart
Principal of Our Lady of Victories School

I have been working alongside Alison at Thea Mickell Services for a number of years. We are a low decile school in the Far North of New Zealand, and find it really difficult to fundraise for classroom and school resources. Thea Mickell- Services have enabled us to provide a range of resources that we are extremely grateful for.

Alison has always been very professional guiding us along with the paper requirements for funding. She is efficient, effective and friendly. She has a huge amount of knowledge in this role enabling successful applications.

I have no hesitation to recommend Thea Mickell Services for all of your needs with funding and administration.

Kathryn Carey
Principal of Pompallier Catholic School Kaitaia