PRACTICAL ACTION

Registered charity 247257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q7237309 · Wikipedia · also known as INTERMEDIATE TECHNOLOGY DEVELOPMENT GROUP LTD, PRACTICAL ACTION LIMITED

Practical Action is a global innovator, inspiring people to discover and adopt ingenious, practical ways to free themselves from poverty and disadvantage

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT (IN WAYS THAT ARE CHARITABLE) OF KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.

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: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Environment/conservation/heritage · Other Charitable Purposes · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Rugby, West Midlands, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income increased by 10% to £33.1 million, while total expenditure rose by 6% to £32.4 million, resulting in a net surplus for the year. Free unrestricted reserves were maintained at £5.7 million, which the trustees confirm is within their stated target range of £4.9 million to £5.9 million. The organisation reports being confident in its status as a going concern with adequate resources to continue operations.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "above" (FY2024) to "within" (FY2025).

Comparing this charity’s FY2024 and FY2025 accounts as analysed by this site.

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
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• 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
• Volunteer management

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.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00871954
• Trading subsidiary: PRACTICAL ACTION CONSULTING LIMITED Companies House 00952705
• Trading subsidiary: PRACTICAL ACTION PUBLISHING LIMITED Companies House 01159018

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

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Sarah Roberts — Chief Executive Officer (source)
• Akinyi Walender — Africa Director (source)
• Ayan Banerjee — Asia Director (source)
• Alicia Quezada — Latin America Director (source)
• Chris Kelly — Chief Operations Officer (source)
• Rachel Hudson — Fundraising, Marketing and Communications Director (source)
• Simon Hotchkin — Impact, Influence and Innovation Director (source)
• Susan Maina — Kenya 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).

• Postcode Lottery — “Practical Action is generously supported by Postcode Lottery players. Thanks to the players of the Postcode Lottery, the funding given to da…” (source page)
• Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• Comic Relief — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• Maxwell Stuart Charitable Trust — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• IKEA Foundation — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• Z Zurich Foundation — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• H&M Foundation — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• innocent foundation — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• Poul Due Jensen Foundation — “We have strong partnerships with large foundations and trusts who provide significant funding for our work. These include the Postcode Lotte…” (source page)
• European Union — “We also receive significant funding from multi-national and umbrella organisations, including the European Union, UN agencies, ADB and the W…” (source page)
• UN agencies — “We also receive significant funding from multi-national and umbrella organisations, including the European Union, UN agencies, ADB and the W…” (source page)
• ADB — “We also receive significant funding from multi-national and umbrella organisations, including the European Union, UN agencies, ADB and the W…” (source page)
• World Bank — “We also receive significant funding from multi-national and umbrella organisations, including the European Union, UN agencies, ADB and the W…” (source page)
• EnDev — “We also receive significant funding from multi-national and umbrella organisations, including the European Union, UN agencies, ADB and the W…” (source page)
• Nordic Development Fund — “We also receive significant funding from multi-national and umbrella organisations, including the European Union, UN agencies, ADB and the W…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• KHANNA, Deepali — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• SMITH, Philip Hunter — director, appointed 03/12/2025on trustee list
• SLOANE, Jane Louise — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• TEMISEVA, Aki — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• IRELAND, Claire — director, appointed 10/07/2024on trustee list
• STUDER NOGUEZ, Isabel — director, appointed 10/07/2024not on trustee list
• MOJAPELO, Sazini — director, appointed 12/04/2024on trustee list
• WAHBA, Mourad — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• HAIKIN, Matthew James — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• LIAO, William Fu Wei — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• WADHWA, Shivani — director, appointed 07/09/2021on trustee list
• TYLER, Martin Charles — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• CHOUDHURY, Fayezul Haque — director, appointed 01/04/2020on trustee list
• PRYOR, Donna Susan — secretary, appointed 31/03/2025

Official officers record.

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.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook (23,083 followers) · instagram (5,697 followers)

Advertised salaries (public job ads)

Roles this charity has advertised on CharityJob, matched on the exact employer name. A different source from the statutory pay bands above: these are asking salaries for vacancies, not what anyone was paid.

• Fundraising Manager- Supporter Acquisition Fixed Term Contract — £44,000 - £47,000 per year Pro-rated · Multiple Locations (Hybrid) · posted 1 week ago (seen 09/09/2026)

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

Reported reserves equal ~3.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 7.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (3.7%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/08/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (12/03/2024) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (29/03/2022) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (14/05/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Aki Temiseva
• Claire Ireland
• Deepali Khanna
• Fayezul Haque CHOUDHURY
• Isabel Studer Noguez
• Jane Louise Sloane
• MARTIN CHARLES TYLER · trustee of 1 other charity
• Matthew James Haikin
• Mourad Wahba
• Philip Hunter Smith
• Sazini Mojapelo
• Shivani Wadhwa
• William Fu Wei Liao

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Bolivia · Burkina Faso · India · Kenya · Malawi · Mozambique · Nepal · Peru · Rwanda · Senegal · Sri Lanka

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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Government & lottery funding

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with PRACTICAL TOOLS INITIATIVE LIMITED.

• PRACTICAL TOOLS INITIATIVE LIMITED income £636k
• GLOBAL ACTION PLAN income £2.0m
• INTEGRITY ACTION income £3.4m
• ACTIONAID income £47.6m
• 1st Action UK income £33k
• REAL ACTION (Q.P.C.T.) LTD income £147k

Side by side with its peers

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