BUILD PARTNERS

Registered charity 1153715 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUILD PARTNERSHIP

Strengthening the BUILD training network. (BUILD stands for 'Biblical Understanding for In-service Leadership Development'.) BUILD is a locally grown, grassroots church leadership training initiative of the Church of Uganda, which has spread to neighbouring Anglican provinces and further afield. We actively encourage and support that growth and development with small grants, expertise and visits.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT IN AFRICA, ASIA AND LATIN AMERICA PRIMARILY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY THROUGH SUPPORTING GRASS ROOTS CHURCH LEADERSHIP EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE AREAS OF BIBLICAL STUDIES, PRACTICAL THEOLOGY, COUNSELLING, COMMUNICATION AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT.

Area of benefit: OVERSEAS

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

Causes: Education/training · Religious Activities · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Bath and North East Somerset, South West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity achieved a surplus of £7,141 for the year ended 31 December 2025. Free reserves stood at £36,405, which the trustees note exceeded their stated target of approximately £10,000. The financial statements were independently examined with no material matters coming to the examiner's attention.

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 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• REVD DR PETER ACKROYDchair
• ANDREW JAMES DAVISSON
• Rev Andrew Symes
• Rev Glenn Nesbitt · trustee of 1 other charity
• Rev Richard Jeremy Guy Hovil · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Kenya · Tanzania · Uganda

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• BUILD AFRICA income £540k
• Christian Development Uganda income £131k
• THE BUILD CHARITY income £115k
• BUILD IT INTERNATIONAL income £1.3m
• THE BUSOGA TRUST income £737k
• BUILDING SOCIETIES TRUST LIMITED income £139k

Side by side with its peers

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