PRACTICAL ACTION

Registered charity 247257 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · 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

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

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. Free unrestricted reserves of £5.7 million were maintained within the charity's stated target range of £4.9 million to £5.9 million, indicating adequate financial resilience.

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 4 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.

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)

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 · instagram

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 (3.8%) (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

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

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Side by side with its peers

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