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.

Objects

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS ("THE OBJECTS") ARE:-1. TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CONSERVATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE UNDERTAKING AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH. (PLEASE SEE COPY OF THE SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON FILE FOR DETAILS).

Area of benefit: NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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

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

Registered contact address: Southwark, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The charity reported a surplus of £128k for the year ended 31 March 2026, with total income of £1,909k and total expenditure of £1,781k. Unrestricted reserves increased to £456k, providing 12.8 months of core costs, which exceeds the trustees' preferred minimum target of six months. The trustees and auditors confirmed that adequate resources are available for the foreseeable future, supporting a going concern basis.

Automated summary of the FY2026 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.

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
• 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
• 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

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

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 31/03/2026)

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 11.6% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (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

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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 SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL GARDENS.

• SUSTAINABLE GLOBAL GARDENS income £34k
• THE SANDS FAMILY TRUST income £19k
• WELL GROUNDED LIMITED income £1.3m
• GROUNDWATER RELIEF income £1.4m
• RENEWABLE WORLD income £1.4m
• DOWNLANDS TRUST income £557k

Side by side with its peers

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