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.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity maintained a robust financial position with a net surplus of £1,029,710 for the year ended 31 March 2025. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £5,334,074, with free reserves of £518,084, which the trustees confirmed were in line with their policy of holding between three and six months of operating costs. The auditor confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting was 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 £55,001 - £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 "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

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

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 4.8 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 (5.2%) (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
• Simeon Livesey
• 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.

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 WIRRAL YOUTH ZONE.

• WIRRAL YOUTH ZONE income £1.3m
• YOUNG MANCHESTER income £888k
• MANCHESTER YOUNG LIVES LTD income £1.3m
• CARLISLE YOUTH ZONE income £1.2m
• BLACKBURN YOUTH ZONE income £5.3m
• MANCHESTER YOUTH ACADEMY LTD income £469k

Side by side with its peers

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