BUILD IT INTERNATIONAL

Registered charity 1115989 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Creating jobs and opportunities to make a living through projects that build essential community facilities, training local builders and communities in construction and business skills, promoting environmentally sound technolgies and appropriate building design.

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Accommodation/housing · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £134,622 for the year ended 31 December 2025, with total income rising to £1,279,590. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves stood at £331,529, which is above the stated policy target of £175,000 (three months of core expenditure). The trustees confirmed that resources are sufficient to continue operations as a going concern for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Sayer Vincent. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Tum Kazunga — Chief Executive (source)
• Lucie Kasanga — Chair of Zambia Board (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING — “Thank you to all our corporate and industry partners including: BUROHAPPOLD ENGINEERING” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

1 registered title in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (0 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~3.5 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 (99% 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: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Florence Alice Jane Bearmanchair
• Christopher John James
• Jemini Patel
• Neil Patrick MacDougall
• Oluwatoyosi Adeyinka Odiakosa

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

Operates in: Zambia

Income and spending

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Known funders

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

Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BUILD UP FOUNDATION.

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• BRADFORD YOUTHBUILD TRUST LTD income £129k
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• BAND OF BUILDERS income £525k
• THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £2.7m
• ARTICLE 25 income £991k

Side by side with its peers

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