ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT

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

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

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

Latest income

£3.5m

Latest spending

£2.7m

Registered

1986

Accounts read

FY2024

Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that total income rose to £3.5m in 2024, driven by a significant increase in unrestricted grants, while total expenditure remained stable at £2.7m. This resulted in an unrestricted surplus of £517,889, which increased unrestricted reserves to £917,332, comfortably exceeding the trustees' stated target of £500,000. However, the trustees note a risk regarding the sustainability of unrestricted fundraising in the medium term, though they maintain confidence in the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Highest-paid employee band: £60,001 - £70,000 — below the median for charities its size (£70k)

“The number of employees whose remuneration for the year fell within the following bands were: 2024 Number £60,001 - £70,000 3” — page 43

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Employees paid over £60,000: 3

“The number of employees whose remuneration for the year fell within the following bands were: 2024 Number £60,001 - £70,000 3” — page 43

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Reserves policy: £500,000 (held: £917k)

“The trustees committed to holding an unrestricted general reserve, which should, as a minimum, exceed the reserves target of £500,000 set in December 2023.” — page 15

Per its FY2024 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

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

Year-over-year changes

Employees paid over £60,000: 1 (FY2023) → 3 (FY2024).
Reserves position vs the charity's own policy moved from "below" (FY2023) to "above" (FY2024).

Comparing this charity’s FY2023 and FY2024 accounts as analysed by this site.

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 31/12/2024)

Total income

£3.5m

Total spending

£2.7m

Cost of raising funds

£401k

Reserves (reported)

£917k

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~4.1 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Donations and legacies (52% 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: 11.5% of total income — above the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

Adam Pickering
Adetokunbo Iyabo Priya Johnson
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

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/12/2024	£3.5m	£2.7m
31/12/2023	£2.5m	£2.6m
31/12/2022	£2.8m	£2.9m
31/12/2021	£2.6m	£2.8m
31/12/2020	£3.0m	£2.9m

Common questions

Is ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT financially healthy?

Per its FY2024 accounts: The accounts state that total income rose to £3.5m in 2024, driven by a significant increase in unrestricted grants, while total expenditure remained stable at £2.7m. This resulted in an unrestricted surplus of £517,889, which increased unrestricted reserves to £917,332, comfortably exceeding the trustees' stated target of £500,000. However, the trustees note a risk regarding the sustainability of unrestricted fundraising in the medium term, though they maintain confidence in the charity's ability to continue as a going concern. Its FY2024 accounts were audited by Godfrey Wilson Limited.

What does the highest-paid employee of ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT earn?

Per its FY2024 accounts, the highest-paid employee was in the £60,001 - £70,000 band, and 3 employees earned over £60,000.

Who funds ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT?

Funders whose own accounts filings name ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT as a grant recipient include DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST, THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST, THE TULA TRUST LIMITED, THE HASLUCK CHARITABLE TRUST.

Known funders

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

Funder	Year	Amount
DAVID LISTER CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£20k
THE BEATRICE LAING TRUST	FY2025	£3k
THE TULA TRUST LIMITED	FY2024	£2k
THE HASLUCK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2024	£1k
THE HASLUCK CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2025	£1k

Government & lottery funding

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

Funder	Date	Amount	Purpose
Postcode Lottery	10/02/2025	£500k	Regular Grant 2025
Postcode Lottery	01/12/2023	£500k	Regular Grant 2024
Postcode Lottery	09/02/2022	£300k	Special Grant 2022
The National Lottery Community Fund	29/03/2019	£41k	Support to ADD International Safeguarding Strengthening
The National Lottery Community Fund	24/03/2017	£467k	Sustainable Livelihoods for People with Disabilities

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.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
TRUST FOR LONDON	1	£192k
DR EDWARDS AND BISHOP KING'S FULHAM CHARITY	1	£23k
THE ACCESS TO JUSTICE FOUNDATION	1	£14k
THE BATCHWORTH TRUST	1	£10k
DUCHY HEALTH CHARITY LIMITED	1	£5k
THE STRANGWARD TRUST	1	£5k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ACTION ON DISABILITY.

ACTION ON DISABILITY income £1.4m
INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL income £949k
ALDAG (ALWAYS LEARNING DEVELOPING AND GROWING) income £144k
DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY income £2.5m
IMAGINE ACT AND SUCCEED income £12.1m
NORFOLK COALITION OF DISABLED PEOPLE income £1.4m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
ACTION ON DISABILITY AND DEVELOPMENT	£3.5m	£60,001 - £70,000	3	above	—	no doubt
ACTION ON DISABILITY FY2026	£1.4m	Over £60,000	1	below	—	no doubt
INCLUSION INTERNATIONAL FY2025	£949k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
ALDAG (ALWAYS LEARNING DEVELOPING AND GROWING) FY2025	£144k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt
DISABILITY CORNWALL AND THE ISLES OF SCILLY FY2025	£2.5m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
IMAGINE ACT AND SUCCEED FY2025	£12.1m	—	—	above	—	no doubt

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