WORLD HABITAT

Registered charity 270987 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BUILDING AND SOCIAL HOUSING FOUNDATION, BUILDING AND SOCIAL HOUSING FOUNDATION LIMITED

World Habitat is an independent research organisation that promotes sustainable development and innovation in housing through collaborative research and knowledge transfer, both in the UK and internationally.

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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net deficit of £165,568 for the year ended 31 December 2025, primarily due to expenditure exceeding income. However, the trustees confirm that the charity holds sufficient resources in readily accessible funds to meet current operating obligations and considers there to be 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 Forvis Mazars LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 01247918 · Financial health read from its filings

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.

• PAILLET, Anna Katerina — director, appointed 04/06/2025on trustee list
• BACHELARD-BAKAL, Florence Gisele Therese — director, appointed 05/03/2025on trustee list
• MAJID, Nahid Afrin — director, appointed 05/03/2025on trustee list
• AYERS, Jessica May, Dr — director, appointed 25/05/2022not on trustee list
• KABIR, Rumana — director, appointed 25/05/2022on trustee list
• NEWBY, Thomas Karl — director, appointed 25/05/2022on trustee list
• CHALLIS, Adam David — director, appointed 05/06/2019on trustee list
• MURPHY, Nicholas Kenneth — director, appointed 05/06/2019on trustee list
• RICHARDSON, Joanna, Professor — director, appointed 06/06/2018on trustee list

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

8 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (8 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Per its annual return, largest income source: Investments (97% 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: 10.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam David Challischair
• Anna Katerina Paillet
• Dr Jess Ayers
• Florence Gisele Therese Bachelard-Bakal
• Nahid Afrin Majid
• Nicholas Kenneth Murphy
• Professor Joanna Richardson
• Rumana Kabir
• Thomas Karl Newby

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREAT BRITAIN.

• HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREAT BRITAIN income £2.9m
• World Sustainable Hospitality Alliance Foundation income £1.6m
• ARTICLE 25 income £991k
• HFHGB (HOMES) income £113k
• SUSTAINABILITY. HEALTH. ENVIRONMENT. DEVELOPMENT. income £2.8m
• THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF HOUSING income £10.0m

Side by side with its peers

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