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.

Objects

TO PROMOTE, MAINTAIN, DEVELOP AND ADVANCE PUBLIC EDUCATION AND TRAINING IN THE ARTS FOR THE BENEFIT OF BUT NOT LIMITED TO, YOUNG PEOPLE, BY ESTABLISHING AND OPERATING A CENTRE OR CENTRES IN MANCHESTER, FOR THE PRESENTATION FOR THE PUBLIC OF MUSIC, OPERA, DANCE, DRAMA, THE VISUAL ARTS, FILMS, VIDEO, MULTIMEDIA, SOUND EXHIBITIONS OF ALL KINDS AS ARE CONDUCIVE TO THE PROMOTION, MAINTENANCE, IMPROVEMENT AND PARTICIPATION IN AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OR TO THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF THE ARTS, WHETHER ON PREMISES OWNED OR LEASED BY THE COMPANY ELSEWHERE.

Area of benefit: MANCHESTER

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

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Registered contact address: Manchester, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

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.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/03/2021 (received 15/03/2022, 43 days after the 31/01/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 04101324
• Trading subsidiary: Z-ARTS TRADING LTD Companies House 08468095

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).

• Arts Council England — “Public Funders: Arts Council England” (source page)
• Cargill Cares — “Corporate Funders: Cargill Cares” (source page)
• Garfield Weston Foundation — “Trusts & Foundations: Garfield Weston Foundation” (source page)

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)

Reported reserves equal ~1.5 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 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 (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• 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

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Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HMM ARTS LTD.

• HMM ARTS LTD income £409k
• ZINC ARTS income £492k

Side by side with its peers

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