THE MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE LIMITED

Registered charity 1134580 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE (HARPURHEY), THE FACTORY YOUTH ZONE (MANCHESTER) LIMITED

The Youth Zone's principle activity is the provision of high quality youth and play services seven days a week which can be accessed by young people from North Manchester. We aim to ensure that all young people touched by the Youth Zone are able to make a successful transition to adulthood.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ARE TO HELP AND EDUCATE CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE RESIDENTIN THE NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND THROUGH THEIR LEISURE TIME ACTIVITIES BY PROMOTINGTHEIR FULL PHYSICAL AND SPIRITUAL POTENTIAL IN ORDER THAT THEY MAY GROW TO FULLMATURITY AS INDIVIDUALS AND MEMBERS OF SOCIETY AND THAT THEIR CONDITIONS OF LIFEMAY IMPROVE

Area of benefit: NORTH WEST OF ENGLAND

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

Causes: Education/training · Disability · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Amateur Sport · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The charity reported a net surplus of £1,029,710 for the year ended 31 March 2025, with total income of £3,189,336 and total expenditure of £2,159,626. Unrestricted reserves stood at £5,334,074, which the trustees confirmed is in line with their policy of maintaining three to six months of operating costs. The auditor 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

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 6 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £55,000 - £60,000 (FY2024) to £70,000 - £75,000 (FY2025).
• Employees paid over £60,000: 0 (FY2024) → 1 (FY2025).
• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "within" (FY2024) to "above" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Manchester Youth Zone (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Calisen Impact Charitable Trust — “The Calisen Impact Charitable Trust is honoured to be supporting Calisen Group's financial support over many years including funding 10,000 …” (source page)
• Deloitte — “We have thoroughly enjoyed working with Manchester Youth Zone over the course of our three year partnership, as part of our 5 million Future…” (source page)
• Burton Copeland — “It is for that reason that we are absolutely delighted to be partnering with such a superb local charity. A charity with such strong desires…” (source page)
• Car Finance 247 — “We have supported MYZ for many years, playing our part in creating opportunities that empower young people for a brighter future. From match…” (source page)
• SEFE Energy — “I’m proud that SEFE energy is supporting that to continue.” (source page)

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): instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (75% 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: 1.7% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (04/02/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID BARRIE ROBINSONchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Afolarin Samuel Remi-Akinwale
• Andrew Cooke
• Colin Bell
• Councillor Joanne Green
• Debbie Louise Miller
• Gwynyth Wilson
• Robert Alexander Cregeen
• Siobhan Ryde Hanley
• Yvonne O'Malley

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Manchester City

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE.

• BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
• MAHDLO (OLDHAM YOUTH ZONE) income £1.8m
• THE ZONE YOUTH CLUB, BROADSTAIRS income £74k
• YOUNG MANCHESTER income £888k
• WOLVERHAMPTON YOUTH ZONE income £1.6m
• MANCHESTER YOUNG LIVES LTD income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.