ZION ARTS CENTRE LIMITED
Registered charity 1093556 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as Z-ARTS
Zion Arts Centre Ltd t/a Z-arts is committed to inspiring and enabling generations of young people from Manchester and beyond to use creativity to reach their potential. We offer a wide range of creative activities across all art forms including visual art, drama, music and dance as well as a varied theatre programme specifically aimed at children and family audiences.
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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The provided document contains only administrative details, trustee names, and auditor information for Zion Arts Centre Limited for the financial year ending 2025-03-31. It does not contain any financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserves data to assess financial health.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Accounts audited by Menzies LLP. Discloses 3 of 6 completeness components.
Corporate structure
Z-ARTS TRADING LTD — per its own Companies House accounts
- Turnover: £127k
- Profit before tax: £22k
- Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £22k
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“Gift aid payment - (21,500)”
Leadership, per the charity’s website
- Lizi Ransome — Co-Chair (source)
- Nazma Noor — Co-Chair (source)
- Michael Goulbourn — Trustee (source)
Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.
Funders the charity credits
Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).
Company officers (Companies House)
Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.
- GOULBOURN, Michael Benjamin — director, appointed 19/03/2025on trustee list
- GLOVER, Lee Michael — director, appointed 18/09/2024on trustee list
- COOMBS, George Ronald — director, appointed 12/03/2024not on trustee list
- KUNDA, Miselo — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
- KANE, Emma Clare — director, appointed 08/03/2023on trustee list
- BARKATALI, Amy — director, appointed 09/03/2022on trustee list
- NOOR, Nazma — director, appointed 11/03/2021on trustee list
- BENNETT-NIELSEN, Freya-Dana Victoria — director, appointed 11/03/2021on trustee list
- RANSOME, Elizabeth — director, appointed 11/09/2019on trustee list
- O'NEILL, Elizabeth Mary — secretary, appointed 26/05/2009
Official officers record.
Property (HM Land Registry)
1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.
Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£91k
Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (49% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.
Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 6.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).
- Amy Barkatali
- Elizabeth Ransome · trustee of 1 other charity
- Emma Clare Kane
- Freya-Dana Victoria Bennett-Nielsen
- George Coobs
- JACK PICKETT · trustee of 1 other charity
- Lee Michael Glover
- Michael Benjamin Goulbourn
- Miselo Kunda
- Nazma Noor
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Bolton · Bury · Manchester City · Oldham · Rochdale · Salford City · Stockport · Tameside · Trafford · Wigan
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ZION ARTS CENTRE LIMITED financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The provided document contains only administrative details, trustee names, and auditor information for Zion Arts Centre Limited for the financial year ending 2025-03-31. It does not contain any financial statements, income, expenditure, or reserves data to assess financial health. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Menzies LLP.
Who funds ZION ARTS CENTRE LIMITED?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ZION ARTS CENTRE LIMITED as a grant recipient include CURIOUS MINDS, YOUNG MANCHESTER, THE JOHN THAW FOUNDATION.
Known funders
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Government & lottery funding
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