WOMENZONE

Registered charity 1170163 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as WOMENZONE CC

Womenzone uses a holistic approach to deliver community based health improvement activities in Bradford East and surrounding areas. We work with women of all ages, concentrating our efforts in the areas of deprivation and health inequalities where there is greatest need, and working around the key themes of Physical Health, Mental Health, Training, Nutrition and Wellbeing.

Objects

1) To further or benefit young people, female residents and their families of Bradford, without distinction of sexual orientation, race or of political, religious or other opinions by associating together the said residents and the local authorities, voluntary and other organisations in a common effort to advance education and arts, heritage and culture and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the objective of improving the conditions of life for the said residents. In furtherance of these objects but not otherwise, the trustees shall have power: To establish or secure the establishment of a community centre and to maintain or manage or co-operate with any statutory authority in the maintenance and management of such a centre for activities promoted by the charity in furtherance of the above objects. 2) To promote social inclusion for the public benefit among women residents in Bradford preventing women from becoming socially excluded, relieving the needs of women who are socially excluded and assisting them to integrate into society. For the purpose of this clause ‘socially excluded’ means being excluded from society, or part of society, as a result of being a woman from a socially and economically deprived community.” 3) The relief of sickness and the preservation of physical, emotional and mental health among people residing permanently or temporarily in Bradford and surrounding areas.

Area of benefit: LOCAL

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Economic/community Development/employment · Recreation · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bradford, Yorkshire and The Humber, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity incurred a net expenditure of £14,397 for the year, resulting in a decrease in total net assets. However, unrestricted free reserves stood at £367,015, which the trustees confirmed was within their stated policy target of maintaining reserves equivalent to between six and fourteen months of running costs.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• 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.

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 09/03/2022, 37 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.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2021)

Reported reserves equal ~10.4 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 7.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (100% 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: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (3.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Rizwana Jamilchair
• Lorna James
• Marcia Marczynski
• Tahera Kacholia

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

Operates in: Bradford City · Leeds City

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with WELL WOMEN CENTRE.

• WELL WOMEN CENTRE income £809k
• WOMEN’S HEALTH MATTERS income £850k
• TYNESIDE WOMEN'S HEALTH income £297k
• WELLBEING OF WOMEN income £2.4m
• WOMEN@THEWELL income £666k
• WOMEN IN WALES income £63k

Side by side with its peers

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