Sand Dams Worldwide Limited

Registered charity 1094478 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as EXCELLENT, EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT, EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT LIMITED

Sand Dams Worldwide supports rural dryland communities to work their way out of poverty with dignity. Working with local partners, we support rural communities to gain access to clean water close to their homes and to invest in climate-smart agriculture. In pioneering sand dams we promote and support the application of sand dam technology by key stakeholders in drylands.

Causes: The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 35% to £1,939,000, resulting in a surplus of £322,000 for the year. Unrestricted reserves decreased slightly to £376,000, which the trustees consider to be within their stated policy target of six to twelve months of core costs. The trustees confirm that adequate resources are available to continue operations for the foreseeable future.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Cottons Accountants LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Sand Dams Worldwide (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (96% 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: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Alexander Day
• Barbara Busby
• Halinishi Ndunge Yusuf
• Jonathan Leon Slowe
• MARK MURPHY
• Miguel Veiga-Pestana
• Nicholas Sanjay Rao
• Robert Bence
• Sarah Heloise Field

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

Operates in: Ethiopia · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · Tanzania · Zimbabwe

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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 VILLAGE WATER LIMITED.

• VILLAGE WATER LIMITED income £1.5m
• SANDBLAST LTD income £480k
• Sangam Foundation income £238k
• WATERHARVEST income £358k
• FRANK WATER PROJECTS income £415k
• THE SANDALS FOUNDATION income £172k

Side by side with its peers

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