ZANE: ZIMBABWE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY
Registered charity 1112949 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ZANE
- The provision of food, medicine and support to pensioners, including WW2 and other Commonwealth veterans and their widows. ZANE works in partnership with RCEL.- Small scale community education, training and farming projects in impoverished communities.- Health programmes: clubfoot correction, hearing aids, prosthetic limbs for mine victims.
Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · website · Get email alerts
Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts
The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £86,530 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £3,183,443 to £3,096,913. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting 12-18 months of budgeted expenditure to buffer against currency fluctuations and fundraising challenges. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.
Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.
What the accounts disclose
Fundraising cost ratio: 18.8% of fundraised income, as disclosed
“ZANE has controlled overheads so that the percentage cost of generating the funds in 2024/25 was 18.8%” — page 4
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Trading subsidiary: ZANE Professional Services Limited
“ZANE Professional Services Limited was dissolved after the year end, resulting in the debtor becoming irrecoverable.” — page 20
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Accounts audited by Tearle & Carver Ltd. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.
Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — ZANE (matched by registered charity number).
Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2025)
Cost of raising funds
£637k
Reported reserves equal ~10.5 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).
Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (98% 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: 18.6% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).
Register events
- Received assets from another charity (03/02/2026) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (13/11/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- Received assets from another charity (19/06/2014) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
- JUDITH MELLOR OBEchair
- CHARLES FORD
- CHRISTOPHER DEAN COMPSTON
- Caroline Philippa Compston · trustee of 1 other charity
- David Alexander Ross
- David Gordon Covell
- JOHN BROADLEY CMG
- NICOLA MARY GAYNER
- Nicola Passaportis OBE
Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).
Operates in: Throughout England And Wales · Zimbabwe
Income and spending
Common questions
Is ZANE: ZIMBABWE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY financially healthy?
Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the charity reported a net expenditure of £86,530 for the year, resulting in total funds decreasing from £3,183,443 to £3,096,913. The trustees maintain a reserves policy targeting 12-18 months of budgeted expenditure to buffer against currency fluctuations and fundraising challenges. The independent auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Tearle & Carver Ltd.
Who funds ZANE: ZIMBABWE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY?
Funders whose own accounts filings name ZANE: ZIMBABWE A NATIONAL EMERGENCY as a grant recipient include THE MCCORQUODALE CHARITABLE TRUST, THE BENHAM CHARITABLE SETTLEMENT, THE BATCHWORTH TRUST, G M C TRUST, THE HUGH SYMONS CHARITABLE TRUST.
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