ACTION CHANGE

Registered charity 1111494 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ACTION CHANGE (FORMALLY GVI TRUST), GLOBAL VISION INTERNATIONAL CHARITABLE TRUST, GVI Trust

Working with local hard to reach communities across the globe, Action Change manages, grows, develops and fundraises for numerous long-term programs that tackle the United Nations SDG's. Using these goals as a blueprint and working in collaboration with the communities aim to alleviate poverty, illiteracy, environmental degradation and climate change through: education; nutrition and conservation.

Objects

(1) TO PROMOTE FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT;(2) TO ADVANCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC IN THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT;(3) TO RELIEVE SICKNESS AND PRESERVE AND PROMOTE THE GOOD HEALTH OF PERSONS;(4) TO RELIEVE POVERTY, FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AND DISTRESS.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

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

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Animals · Environment/conservation/heritage · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: East Cambridgeshire, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

Per the trustees' report, the charity held unrestricted reserves of £6,067 at 31 December 2025, which is below its stated policy target of three months of core costs. The accounts state that the trustees have a reasonable expectation that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future, adopting the going concern basis of accounting.

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

What the accounts disclose

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
• Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
• 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
• 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

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

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

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

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2021 (received 01/11/2022, 1 day after the 31/10/2022 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Action Change (matched by registered charity number).

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

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (29/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• HEIDI KINGchair
• Etienne Dawes
• Philip John Day

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

Operates in: Australia · Brazil · Costa Rica · Fiji · Ghana · India · Kenya · Laos · Mexico · Nepal · Seychelles · South Africa

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACT FOR CHANGE.

• ACT FOR CHANGE income £215k
• YOUTH ACTION income £531k
• THE CLIMATE CHANGE ORGANISATION income £16.8m
• AIM FOR CHANGE income £51k
• FOUNDATION FOR CHANGE income £243k
• THE CHANGE FOUNDATION income £1.3m

Side by side with its peers

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