Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: -1
Support Score: 10
  • No PartB
  • Only 4 Trustees: -1
  • Large volunteer base +3
  • Overall weighted support: +7
Overall GiG Score: 9 ?

Z'S DEFENCE ACADEMY

- Self Defence Courses - Kickboxing/Mixed Martial Arts- Self Defence Fitness Session - Boxing- Walking/Hiking- Physical Activities - Endurance Session- Yoga/Stretching- Outdoor Pursuits- Social Activities- Life Coaching- Obstacle Course Racing- Social Inclusion Activities- Empowerment Program- Building Confidence workshop- Education- Outdoor pursuits- Volunteering
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • This charity has been successful in attracting volunteers relative to its size
  • A significant proportion of recent income was derived from major grant makers including the Government

Regulatory & Governance issues to consider:

  • Why are there only 4 trustees?

Financial issues to consider:

  • A PartB annual return has not been required and so detailed financial information is not available from the online data

Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income Spending Surplus/
Deficit
Volun-
teers
31/03/24£90£92£-3n/a
31/03/23£79£49£30n/a
31/03/22£14£25£-11n/a
Highest pay bracket: less than £60,000
Established: 4 years

https://zsdefenceacademy.wpcomstaging.com/

ZSDEFENCEACADEMY@GMAIL.COM

07720636847

Charity Commission for England and Wales
UN SDGs
?
Listed activities
  • The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
GiG Classification
  • Community sports activities
How it operates
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Throughout England,
Who it helps
  • The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Major supporters in last 5 years
Sport England£34,440
BBC Children in Need£23,100
National Lottery Community Fund£19,850
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust£15,000
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside£6,850
Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Sport England - Blackburn Ladies - Active Lives Project
£13,340 27/03/2024
14
This project will engage women and girls from southeast Asian backgrounds residing in Blackburn to take part in physical activity. The programme will run at least once a week for 12 months and will include facilitated community walks, gym workouts ....more
Community Foundations for Lancashire & Merseyside - Grant to Zs Defence Academy
£6,850 28/02/2024
13
To deliver a 12 week programme including fitness, 1-2-1 counselling, and life coaching for women.
National Lottery Community Fund - MH - Youth Can
£9,850 04/08/2023
The funding will be used to deliver education and training sessions in self-defence techniques for girls/women (11-18 years) from BAME communities. The project aims to support young people to improve activity levels self-defence resilience and life ....more
Postcode Neighbourhood Trust - Project Funding
£15,000 31/07/2023
Funding improved the confidence, resilience & holistic well-being of 200 BAME females through free self-defence and well-being activities.
National Lottery Community Fund - Weighing In-clusion
£10,000 02/06/2023
The funding will be used to deliver well-being and engagement workshops for South Asian women in the community to help support them with obesity diabetes heart disease; depression and mental health. This project aims to improve beneficiaries ....more
Sport England - Z Adventure- Blackburn
£8,460 13/02/2023
This project will provide funding for a 39 week walking project that will take place weekly with additional monthly sessions of either Archery or Orienteering.
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - 12 Week Transformation
£3,140 13/10/2022
This project will engage 40 inactive women and young adults to participate in 60 minutes exercise per week. It aims to recruit instructors to deliver 4 sessions of Zumba & Dance per week at 4 different locations utilising different community ....more
BBC Children in Need - Grant to Z's Defence Academy
£23,100 12/10/2022
This grant will empower Black children and young people from Blackburn with Darwen to deliver Social Action in their community
Sport England - Jubilee Fund - 12 Week Transformation Program
£9,500 06/05/2022
This project will deliver sessions of Exercise & Fitness, Boxing and Yoga to inactive women and girls in the Blackburn area. Three blocks of 12 week programmes will be delivered over the year, with 4 sessions per week.
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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (4)
Current Trustees appointed

  • AASIYA MOTA Appointed: 2022
  • AZMAT FARID Appointed: 2022
  • DAWN WELLS Appointed: 2022
  • RAJA REHMAN Appointed: 2022
Legal constitution
  • Charity registered in England & Wales on 09/04/2021, number: 1194054
Gift Aid
  • NOT registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Fundraising Regulator
First registered: 08/24/2022, current status: Small charity
Policies in force
  • 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
  • Investment
  • 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
Filing Record
3 returns made; all on time
Main office

Z's Defence Academy
PO BOX 689
BLACKBURN
BB2 9RB

Objectives

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE:1) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN SELF-DEFENCE TECHNIQUES IN ORDER TO RAISE AWARENESS OF AND PROTECT PERSONAL SAFETY.2) THE PROMOTION OF COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN HEALTHY RECREATION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT THROUGH THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES TO PARTICIPATE IN SPORTS AND ACTIVITIES CAPABLE OF PROMOTING PHYSICAL HEALTH AND FITNESS.(FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS CLAUSE “FACILITIES” MEANS LAND, BUILDINGS, EQUIPMENT, ACCESS TO COACHING AND ORGANISING SPORTING ACTIVITIES).3) TO FURTHER SUCH EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSES FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AS THE TRUSTEES IN THEIR ABSOLUTE DISCRETION SHALL DETERMINE BY MAKING DONATIONS TO REGISTERED CHARITIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
Charizone

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