INTBAU Ltd

Registered charity 1132362 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as INTERNATIONAL NETWORK FOR TRADITIONAL BUILDING ARCHITECTURE & URBANISM (UK)

INTBAU's mission is to support traditional building, the maintenance of local character, and the creation of better places to live. We do this through workshops, summer schools, study tours, conferences, awards, and competitions. Our three objectives are to research, educate, and engage as widely as possible on the value and relevance of traditional architecture and urban design.

Causes: Education/training · Arts/culture/heritage/science · Environment/conservation/heritage · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity raised income of £1,588,795 against expenditure of £910,789, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Unrestricted free reserves increased significantly to £485,972, which the trustees note is in excess of their policy target of six months' overhead expenditure. The charity remains financially stable with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by WP Audit Services LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Alireza Sagharchi — Chair of the Board of Trustees (source)
• Mary Rose Gunn — Deputy Chair of the Board (source)
• Harriet Wennberg — Executive Director (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).

• Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit — “INTBAU thanks the Axel and Margaret Ax:son Johnson Foundation for Public Benefit for its support.” (source page)

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

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

Reported reserves equal ~6.4 months of spending — above 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: 0.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ALIREZA SAGHARCHI
• Catherine MARY ROSE GUNN
• Clive Aslet
• Dr Akel Ismail Kahera
• Justin Hewitt
• Marianne Cusato
• Marjo Uotila
• Professor Tomasz Nikodem Jelenski
• THE RT HON THE LORD LAMONT OF LERWICK
• Tiffany Elizabeth Unten Abernathy

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

Operates in: Italy · Spain · Throughout London

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS.

• ROYAL INSTITUTE OF BRITISH ARCHITECTS income £30.7m
• BUILD IT INTERNATIONAL income £1.3m
• THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT TRUST income £2.7m
• THE COMPANY OF CHARTERED ARCHITECTS CHARITABLE TRUST FUND income £149k
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF BUILDING income £15.4m
• UKGBC income £3.5m

Side by side with its peers

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