BUILD AFRICA

Registered charity 298316 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q4986389 · Wikipedia · also known as ICR, INTERNATIONAL CARE & RELIEF LIMITED, INTERNATIONAL CARE AND RELIEF, INTERNATIONAL CARE AND RELIEF LIMITED, INTERNATIONAL CHRISTIAN RELIEF LIMITED

We combine education and livelihoods in programmes that work with children and families to deliver projects that will make a lasting difference to their lives. Whether the project ensures a community's children receive an education or helps communities save money and access loans to develop small businesses, we are empowering people to use their own energies to escape poverty.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY SUFFERING SICKNESS AND DISTRESS AMONG SUCH POOR PERSONS RESIDENT IN SUCH AREAS (WHETHER IN THE UK OR THROUGHOUT THE WORLD) AS THE COMPANY SHALL SELECT. (FOR FURTHER DETAILS SEE CLAUSE 3 OF MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION.)

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 Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty · Overseas Aid/famine Relief · Economic/community Development/employment · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: City of London, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that Build Africa closed the year with unrestricted reserves of £94,821, which is considerably above its stated policy target of £32,000. The charity reported a surplus of £28,682 for the year, having raised £540,190 in income against £511,508 in expenditure. The trustees and auditors confirmed there are no material uncertainties regarding the charity's 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 Moore Kingston Smith LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

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
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• 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.

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

Reported reserves equal ~2.2 months of spending — in the bottom quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 1.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (13/11/2018) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Street Child · trustee of 4 other charities

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

Operates in: Kenya · Southwark · Uganda

Income and spending

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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 AFRICAN REVIVAL.

• AFRICAN REVIVAL income £651k
• THE AFRICA TRUST income £1.5m
• ACTION IN AFRICA income £63k
• BUILDING SCHOOLS FOR AFRICA income £222k
• Able Child Africa income £939k
• BREADLINE AFRICA income £661k

Side by side with its peers

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