EMPOWER YOUTH ZONES LTD

• ⚠

  Confirmation statement overdue

  Due 2026-04-26.

• ◆

  4 officer resignations in last 12 months

  Multiple officers have left the board recently — see the People section for who.

1. EMPOWER YOUTH ZONES LTD 2022-12-09 → present
2. MANCHESTER YOUTH ZONE - EAST 2018-04-13 → 2022-12-09

Values shown as filed in the company's annual accounts. — indicates the figure wasn't present under that line item in that period. About these numbers

Margins divide P&L lines by turnover. Gearing is liabilities over total assets. Current ratio is current assets over creditors falling due within one year. Interest cover is operating profit over absolute finance costs. Sector-distribution context coming next.

Accounting basis

FRS 102

Reporting scope

Standalone (parent only)

Auditor

Alextra Audit Limited

Audit opinion

Unqualified (clean)

Going concern

Affirmed

“In auditing the financial statements, we have concluded that the trustees use of the going concern basis of accounting in the preparation of the financial statements is appropriate. Based on the work we have performed, we have not identified any material uncertainties relating to events or conditions that, individually or collectively, may cast significant doubt on the charity's ability to continue as a going concern for a period of at least twelve months from when the original financial statements were authorised for issue.”

Significant events

• “Practical completion of Empower's second provision - Salford Youth Zone in March 2025.”
• “Membership campaign for Salford Youth officially went live in March 2025 with a target of 1,000 member sign-ups by the official opening date of 5th July 2025.”
• “Growing our total membership of young people at HideOut since official opening in 2020 to over 9,000.”
• “Providing over 30,000 meals across the year. 100% of these meals were provided at no cost.”
• “Securing over 1,000 hours of corporate volunteering support.”
• “Facilitating 9 weeks of school holiday provision with over 50 Staff and Volunteers contributing to 70 activities, over 2,500 visits were recorded with over 4,000 hot meals provided during the school holidays supported via 'Holiday Activity Fund' grants.”
• “Providing over 100 formal training opportunities to staff and volunteers, including a new young leaders programme.”
• “22 young people completing our Young Leaders Award.”
• “Hosting our fourth Annual Patrons Dinner with over 90 patrons and supporters attending.”
• “In August, HideOut welcomed Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on her first ministerial visit.”
• “The total amount contracted for but not provided in the financial statements was £835,086 (2024 - £10,030,838).”

Auditor, going-concern and subsidiary information is drawn from the narrative of the latest annual accounts. About these numbers

Filings

8

last 12 months

Capital events

0

last 24 months

Officers appointed

1

last 12 months

Officers resigned

4

last 12 months

Direct counts from the register. No score, no rating — see the Filing timeline for the underlying events.

• Turnover

  +191.3%

  £3,980,456 → £11,596,739

• Cash

  +38.5%

  £2,551,639 → £3,533,213

• Net assets

  +76.2%

  £12,445,731 → £21,925,601

• Employees

  +25.4%

  63 → 79

• Wages

  +14.9%

  £1,008,543 → £1,158,493

Each % is (latest − prior) ÷ |prior| for the line item as filed. The comparison is only shown when the latest and prior accounts cover broadly equal-length periods — short or long stubs (typical around incorporation or a year-end change) are suppressed rather than misrepresented. Lines a company doesn't report are omitted. About these numbers