Finance Score: -2
Governance Score: 9
Support Score: 9
  • Low unrestricted reserves: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Gender balanced board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +9
Overall GiG Score: 16 ?

ZEST-HEALTH FOR LIFE LIMITED 

The objects of the charity are to promote, preserve and protect the physical health and mental well-being of the inhabitants of Leeds and surrounding areas, in particular by providing or supporting the provision of facilities in the interests of social welfare or other leisure time occupation, and by providing education, training, advice and support.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and gender and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Unrestricted reserves appear to be dangerously low at the latest year end
Established: 16 years

www.zestleeds.org.uk

admin@zestleeds.org.uk

01132406677

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UN SDGs
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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/03/23£694£652£42£0£307£16232525
31/03/22£620£548£71£0£265£1292.82520
31/03/21£531£467£64£0£193£1223.12525
31/03/20£560£511£49£0£130£731.72025
31/03/19£508£499£8£0£81£691.71827
31/03/18£498£566£-68£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/17£429£449£-19£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/16£525£566£-42£0£160£1272.7190
31/03/15£524£470£54£5£201£1152.9120
31/03/14£383£395£-12£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/13£362£321£41£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/12£321£312£9£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/11£306£285£21£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/10*£155£177£-22£0£0£0n/a00
31/03/09*£248£243£5£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 0%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 0%
Highest pay band: Less than £60,000
Liabilities/Assets: 12%
Liabilities/Income: 6%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 53%
Reserves/Spending: 3 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 6 months
Quick Ratio: 7.9
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Amateur Sport
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides human resources
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Leeds City,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • Elderly/Old People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 25 employees
  • 25 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following significant donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years
National Lottery Community Fund£263,072
Henry Smith Charity£145,600
Leeds Community Foundation£61,426
DCMS£47,900
Garfield Weston Foundation£30,000
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Leeds Community Foundation - Men's Pie Club - Leeds
£20,000 14/03/2023
Grant to Zest Health for Life
National Lottery Community Fund - Compost Collective Leeds
£10,000 03/03/2023
The funding will be used to support four community groups and organisations to establish their own community composting sites. The project aims to support the development and resilience of local ....more
Sir George Martin Trust - Grant to Zest Health for Life
£3,000 07/11/2022
Capital and core costs for Adult Welfare & Relief of Poverty
Leeds Community Foundation - Stay well this winter
£4,479 20/09/2022
Grant to Zest Health for Life
Leeds Community Foundation - Orion Healthy Holidays
£10,000 24/02/2022
1
Feel Good Factor - to provide young people with basic skills in a number of activities including, cooking and food preparation along with knowledge of healthy lifestyle, healthy choices including ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Ways to Stay well this winter
£1,983 06/10/2021
A range of inclusive weekly activities and resources to target those people with multiple vulnerabilities or disadvantages who are most at risk of becoming unwell over winter, due to cold and severe ....more
National Lottery Community Fund - THRIVE
£244,084 23/08/2021
The funding will help to progress a programme of locally based environmental activities across Inner East Leeds which includes outdoor community growing spaces ‘making do and mending’ sessions ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Zest - Health for Life
£145,600 08/12/2020
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the salary of a Men's Community Development Worker for a project that supports men from Leeds aged 16-25 and 50+, to improve life skills, confidence, ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - A Way to Winter Wellbeing
£1,506 07/10/2020
1
Grant to Zest Health for Life
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award - COVID19 response
£30,000 21/08/2020
Zest Leeds
DCMS - Coronavirus Community Support Fund
£47,900 23/07/2020
"The fund aims to:1) To reduce closures of essential charities that provide essential services to vulnerable groups during the COVID-19 crisis by ensuring they have the financial resources to ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Zest Health for Life
£8,591 08/04/2020
12
Grant to Zest Health for Life
Leeds Community Foundation - Flavour School
£5,000 11/12/2019
11
To support the delivery of Flavour School training workshops for our Healthy Holidays providers in Leeds in 2020, as part of the Veg Cities campaign.
National Lottery Community Fund - Cook, Eat, Chat
£8,988 14/06/2019
12
The funding will be used to deliver a programme of cooking sessions for people of all ages from diverse backgrounds. This will enable people to get together and share positive experiences while ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Grant to Zest Health for Life
£9,868 13/05/2019
12
To run an IMPACT group for men, already attending a mens group, who want to learn new skills, get involved in activities, and get more involved in the delivery and peer support within the Orion ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Meet me downstairs
£19,657 28/02/2019
12
Tower block accommodation in Leeds is seen as the accommodation of last resort, this project will to employ a tower block worker to work in three blocks in Inner East Leeds; over a year the worker ....more
Garfield Weston Foundation - Main Grants award
£20,000 25/07/2018
Request for core funding
Leeds Community Foundation - Orion Partnership - summer holiday campaigns
£5,420 16/03/2018
2
The Orion Consortium will provide a variety of physical and social activities to families on low incomes during the school summer holidays at venues across East North East Leeds. Activities will ....more
Leeds Community Foundation - Cook, Eat, Chat
£9,744 16/02/2018
12
Following a successful pilot we would like to run 6 six week cook and eat for socially isolated people over 50 living in Inner East Leeds. Attendees will spend a couple of hours at the Leeds Cookery ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Zest - Health for Life
£140,700 07/09/2017
36
towards three years' salary of a Men's Community Development Worker at a project that supports young and older men from Leeds to improve life skills, confidence, mental health and reduce isolation
National Lottery Community Fund - DWELL - Doing Well in East Leeds
£355,046 11/01/2017
35
The project aims to bring communities together and the social and physical wellbeing of isolated and disadvantaged people in inner East Leeds. Activities will include confidence-building groups, ....more
Henry Smith Charity - Grant to Zest - Health for Life
£107,000 14/03/2013
36
towards three years' continuation funding of the running costs of a family and community health project in a disadvantaged area of Leeds
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Zest Health for Life
£106,100 07/12/2012
The East and North East Leeds-wide New World Project will support older people through working in a consortium to provide an Internet Shopping Club, skills sharing, support to use new technology, ....more
Lloyds Bank Foundation - Grant to Zest Health for Life
£35,000 25/08/2011
the salary and on-costs of the Project Director
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (6)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 5/6 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 30-57
  • GEMMA ISLIP Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Head Of Talent And Culture
  • JACK PHIPPS Appointed: 2022, Occupation: Trade Union Officer
  • JULIET BROWN Appointed: 2021, Occupation: Executive Search Assistant
  • SCOTT ROBSON (Chair) Appointed: 2020, Occupation: Company Director
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 10/09/2008, number: 1125805
  • Registered at Companies House on 02/08/2007, number: 06332267
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Paying staff
  • Safeguarding policy and procedures
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
  • Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
  • Trustee expenses policy and procedures
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
15 returns made; AR10: 18 days late, AR09: 17 days late,
Main office

The Old Fire Station
Gipton Approach
Gipton
Leeds
LS9 6NL

Objectives

TO PROMOTE, PRESERVE AND PROTECT THE PHYSICAL HEALTH AND MENTAL WELL-BEING OF THE INHABITANTS OF LEEDS AND SURROUNDING AREAS (HEREINAFTER REFERRED TO AS 'THE AREA OF BENEFIT'), IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY ASSOCIATING TOGETHER THE SAID INHABITANTS AND LOCAL AUTHORITIES, VOLUNTARY AND OTHER ORGANISATIONS IN A COMMON EFFORT TO:I PROVIDE EDUCATION, TRAINING, ADVICE AND SUPPORT;II PROVIDE OR SUPPORT THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES IN THE INTERESTS OF SOCIAL WELFARE OR OTHER LEISURE TIME OCCUPATION OF INDIVIDUALS WHO HAVE NEED OF SUCH FACILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE HEALTH AND CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF THOSE IN NEED.

Defined Area of Benefit:

LEEDS AND SURROUNDING AREAS

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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