ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

Registered charity 294860 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4677413 · also known as ADD INTERNATIONAL

ADD International supports disability justice organisations and activists with funding and leadership skills to build powerful movements for change.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE POVERTY AND SICKNESS AMONGST DISABLED PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 2. TO ADVANCE ANY OTHER EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE PURPOSE FOR THE BENEFIT OF DISABLED PERSONS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.

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 · Disability · The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total income decreased by 6% to £3.3m, while total expenditure increased by 34% to £3.6m, resulting in a net deficit for the year. Unrestricted reserves stood at £887,746, which remains above the trustees' stated target of £550,000, though the trustees note a planned unrestricted deficit for 2026 as the charity scales its participatory grant-making activity.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Year-over-year changes

• Top pay band moved from £60,001 - £70,000 (FY2024) to Between £80,001 and £90,000 (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
• Campaigns and political activity 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
• 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.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2022 (received 09/11/2023, 9 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 02033925

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Chris Underhill — Founder (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.

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.

• KIHARA, Ivy Evonne Wanjiku — director, appointed 10/12/2025not on trustee list
• PICKERING, Adam — director, appointed 17/09/2025on trustee list
• MOLLA, Yetneberesh Nigussie — director, appointed 04/12/2024on trustee list
• SREY, Vanthon — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• JOHNSON, Adetokunbo Iyabo Priya — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• MUSAU, Richard Mativu — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• SINGH, Rajuna — director, appointed 28/09/2022on trustee list
• SAYCE, Liz — director, appointed 26/01/2021on trustee list
• JONES, Kenneth James — director, appointed 19/01/2018on trustee list
• MUREITHI, Charity — secretary, appointed 14/05/2026

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.9 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 14.4% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Adam Pickering
• Adetokunbo Iyabo Priya Johnson
• Ivy Kihara
• Kenneth James Jones
• Liz Sayce
• Rajuna Singh
• Richard Mativu Musau
• Vanthon Srey
• Yetneberesh Nigussie Molla

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

Operates in: Bangladesh · Cambodia · Ghana · Sudan · Tanzania · Uganda

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ADAPT (NORTH EAST).

• ADAPT (NORTH EAST) income £1.0m
• ACTIONAID income £47.6m
• AID INTERNATIONAL UK income £260k
• Able Child Africa income £939k
• AFRICAN FOUNDATION FOR DEVELOPMENT AFFORD income £386k
• CAMDEN DISABILITY ACTION income £592k

Side by side with its peers

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