RIGHTS AND ACCOUNTABILITY IN DEVELOPMENT LIMITED

Registered charity 1150846 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as RAID

RAID PROMOTES RESPONSIBLE CONDUCT AND RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS BY COMPANIES AROUND THE WORLD BY: MONITORING HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES, WORKING WITH VICTIMS TO SEEK JUSTICE AND REDRESS;RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY TO RAISE AWARENESS; INFORMING AND ADVISING GOVERNMENTS, UN, OECD AND OTHER BODIES AND ADVOCATING BINDING CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY FRAMEWORKS.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF HUMAN RIGHTS (AS SET OUT IN THE UNIVERSAL DECLARATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS AND SUBSEQUENT UNITED NATIONS CONVENTIONS AND DECLARATIONS), AND ETHICAL STANDARDS OF CONDUCT AND COMPLIANCE WITH THE LAW BY CORPORATIONS, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD BY ALL OR ANY OF THE FOLLOWING MEANS:- MONITORING ABUSES OF HUMAN RIGHTS;- RAISING AWARENESS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;- RESEARCH INTO HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;- INFORM AND ADVISE GOVERNMENTS, INTERNATIONAL AND NATIONAL ORGANISATIONS AND OTHER RELEVANT BODIES ON MATTERS CONCERNING BUSINESS AND HUMAN RIGHTS; - EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND CORPORATIONS ABOUT HUMAN RIGHTS;- INTERNATIONAL ADVOCACY ON HUMAN RIGHTS;- PROVIDING TECHNICAL ADVICE TO GOVERNMENT AND NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANISATIONS (NGOS) AND OTHERS ON HUMAN RIGHTS ISSUES;- COMMENTING ON PROPOSED HUMAN RIGHTS LEGISLATION;- CONTRIBUTING TO THE SOUND ADMINISTRATION OF HUMAN RIGHTS LAW;- PROMOTING RESPECT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS AMONG THE PUBLIC AND CORPORATIONS;- PROMOTING PUBLIC AND CORPORATE SUPPORT FOR HUMAN RIGHTS;- RELIEVING NEED AMONG THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES;- OBTAINING REDRESS FOR THE VICTIMS OF HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES; AND- SEEKING TO REDUCE AND ELIMINATE INFRINGEMENTS OF HUMAN RIGHTS. IN FURTHERANCE OF THESE OBJECTS BUT NOT OTHERWISE, THE TRUSTEES SHALL HAVE THE POWER TO:- ENGAGE IN CAMPAIGNING AND EDUCATION TARGETED AT INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS; AND - ENGAGE IN POLITICAL ACTIVITY TARGETED AT INTERNATIONAL CORPORATIONS,PROVIDED THAT THE TRUSTEES ARE SATISFIED THAT THE PROPOSED ACTIVITIES WILL FURTHER THE PURPOSES OF THE CHARITY TO AN EXTENT JUSTIFIED BY THE RESOURCES COMMITTED AND THE ACTIVITY IS NOT THE DOMINANT MEANS BY WHICH THE CHARITY CARRIED OUT ITS OBJECTS.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total reserves stood at £333,191, with £69,118 being unrestricted. The trustees consider the charity to be a going concern based on current reserves and secured funding, noting that future income is sufficient to meet commitments. The charity operates a defined contribution pension scheme and has no disclosed trading subsidiaries or related-party transactions.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 6 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
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest 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.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Rights and Accountability in Development (RAID) (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Joseph Rowntree charitable trust — “Select Partners Joseph Rowntree charitable trust” (source page)
• Global Commons Alliance — “Global Commons Alliance” (source page)
• THE JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST — “THE JOFFE CHARITABLE TRUST” (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 ~8.7 months of spending — above the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (88% 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: 4.4% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Steve Crawshawchair
• Dr Kathryn Nwajiaku-Dahou
• Laura Boardman
• Muleya Mwananyanda

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

Operates in: Congo (Democratic Republic) · Mozambique · South Africa · Tanzania · Throughout London · Zambia · Zimbabwe

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 STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY.

• STAND AGAINST RACISM & INEQUALITY income £994k
• THE HUMAN DIGNITY TRUST income £1.7m
• DH FOUNDATION income £41k
• PEACE AND RELIEF INTERNATIONAL income £308k
• REACHING THE UNREACHED income £773k
• PARTICIPATE PROJECTS income £627k

Side by side with its peers

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