Finance Score: 2

Governance Score: 6

Support Score: 9

Strong growth: +2

Good trustee age range: +3
Dynamic board: +3

Award winner
Overall weighted support: +9

Overall GiG Score: 17

SAND DAMS WORLDWIDE LIMITED

Overview

Sand Dams Worldwide helps communities in poverty-stricken countries gain access to clean water by building sand dams and school water tanks. Their pioneering approach has been developed in collaboration with academic institutions, local in-country partners specialising in sand dam constructions, and the local communities themselves.

Studies indicate interventions have long-lasting impacts with access to sand dams reducing household sicknesses, increasing food availability and adding to household incomes. Positive environmental impacts also allow new water sources to rejuvenate drylands thereby increasing ability to plant trees. They have ambitious goals to reach a position where they enable hundreds of sand dam builds every year and for those dams to aid millions of people globally.

Source: Giving is Great

Mission:

Helping the world's poorest people transform their own lives through water and soil conservation in drylands

Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

The charity has received backing from several prominent grant makers recently
This charity is a recent Award Winner
There has been strong growth in spending over the last 5 years
The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

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Income & Spending ?

Sources of Income ?

Y/E		Income £k	Spending £k	Surplus/ Deficit £k	Fundraising Cost £k	Total Funds £k	Unrestricted Funds £k	Mths Rsrvs	Staff	Volun- teers
31/03/24		£1,440	£1,391	£48	£242	£813	£397	3.4	7	1
31/03/23		£1,183	£1,375	£-192	£187	£765	£362	3.2	6	0
31/03/22		£1,195	£991	£204	£179	£957	£648	7.8	7	0
31/03/21		£904	£805	£99	£167	£753	£217	3.2	6	0
31/03/20?		£1,114	£1,147	£-33	£236	£654	£173	1.8	9	3
31/03/18		£1,264	£974	£290	£208	£617	£179	2.2	8	0
31/03/17		£1,144	£1,518	£-374	£287	£325	£100	0.8	13	0
31/03/16		£1,534	£1,313	£220	£276	£699	£176	1.6	11	0
31/03/15		£1,291	£1,202	£89	£263	£479	£142	1.4	11	0
30/03/14		£1,158	£1,220	£-62	£292	£390	£70	0.7	14	0
30/03/13	*	£1,177	£1,096	£81	£262	£452	£130	1.4	13	0
31/03/12		£964	£1,000	£-36	£203	£371	£190	2.3	11	0
31/03/11		£866	£866	£0	£155	£407	£238	3.3	11	0
31/03/10		£894	£633	£261	£200	£407	£305	5.8	8	0
31/03/09		£849	£878	£-28	£203	£234	£96	1.3	53	0
31/03/08		£679	£506	£172	£67	£258	£89	2.1	4	0
31/03/07		£373	£343	£31	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/06		£255	£240	£15	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/05		£80	£57	£24	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a
31/03/04		£19	£15	£4	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a	n/a

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Financial Ratios

Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 16.8%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 17.4%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £70,000-£80,000
Liabilities/Assets: 5%
Liabilities/Income: 3%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 49%
Reserves/Spending: 3.4 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 18.2

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Balance Sheet History

Established: 22 years

www.sanddamsworldwide.org.uk

Finance@sanddamsworldwide.org.uk

020 3096 7861

Charity Commission for England and Wales

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What it does

Sand Dams Worldwide supports some of the world’s poorest people to transform their own lives through water and soil conservation in drylands. They do this by supporting the application of sand dam technology in rural communities so they can gain access to clean water close to their homes and invest in sustainable agriculture

Listed activities

Economic/Community Development/Employment
Environment/Conservation/Heritage
Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty

GiG Classification

Environment conservation & animal welfare advocacy
International healthcare & famine relief

How it operates

Makes grants to organisations
Provides human resources
Sponsors or undertakes research

Where it operates

Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zimbabwe,

Who it helps

Other Defined Groups
The General Public/Mankind

Who supports them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

We have details on the following donations. Multi-year donations are allocated to the years for which they are earmarked.

Major supporters in last 5 years

Dulverton Trust	£120,000
The EQ Foundation	£93,750
Charles Hayward Foundation	£30,000

Specific Donations

Amount	When Months	To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Sand Dams Worldwide
£15,000	26/05/2023	Support self help group build a sand dam and learn climate-smart agricultural techniques in Ukambani, Kenya.
The EQ Foundation - Grant to Sand Dams Worldwide
£25,000	04/03/2023	Big Give Champion Pledge
Dulverton Trust - Sand Dams in Kenya
£120,000	08/06/2022	Sand Dams in Kenya
The EQ Foundation - Grant to EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT
£25,000	15/02/2022	Big Give Champion Pledge
The EQ Foundation - Grant to EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
£18,750	05/02/2021	Big Give Christmas Challenge 2020
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Sand Dams Worldwide
£15,000	27/11/2020	Building a sand dam and supporting a community in Ukambani to learn climate-smart agricultural techniques to become food and water secure
The EQ Foundation - Grant to EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
£25,000	15/12/2019	Big Give Christmas Challenge 2019
Dulverton Trust - Sand Dams in Kenya
£33,496	23/10/2019	Sand Dams in Kenya
The EQ Foundation - Grant to EXCELLENT DEVELOPMENT LIMITED
£3,500	19/06/2018	Evaluation study by Cranfield, via Environmental Funders Network
The Funding Network - Sand dams: water yield and availability
£18,255	18/06/2018	To produce a strong base of quantitative data which demonstrates year-round water availability from sand dams, in order to influence other organisations to include sand dams in their water strategies.
Dulverton Trust - Water for People and Wildlife
£60,000	08/06/2016	Water for People and Wildlife
Dulverton Trust - Sand Dam projects in Southeast Kenya
£65,800	24/10/2012	Sand Dam projects in Southeast Kenya

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Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (9)

Current Trustees appointed

Gender Split

Based on 8/9 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 31-69

ALEXANDER DAY Appointed: 2017 Occupation: Company Director

Alex is Chief Executive of the Big Give, a non-profit organisation which is responsible for the UK\\\'s biggest online match funding campaign, the Christmas Challenge. Prior to joining the Big Give, Alex spent eight years working in various roles in the international development and humanitarian response sector including two years as Director of....more

BARBARA BUSBY Appointed: 2016 Occupation: Hr Director

Barbara is passionate about organisation, team and individual development based on over 30 years experience across the public and private sectors, spanning defence, environment, utilities and latterly the NHS. She has been an Executive Director and Board member so understands the challenges of governance and leading organisations. Much of her work....more

DAVID ROBERT JORDAN (Chair) Appointed: 2015 Occupation: Exceutive

HALINISHI NDUNGE YUSUF Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Development Practioner

JONATHAN LEON SLOWE Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Company Director

MARK MURPHY Appointed: 2007 Occupation: Managing Director

Mark has over 15 years domestic and international Marketing experience working with some of the UK's largest plc's. More recently, Mark formed and now runs his own International travel company

MIGUEL VEIGA-PESTANA Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Chief Sustainability Office & Head Of Corp Affair

NICHOLAS SANJAY RAO Appointed: 2023 Occupation: Chartered Accountant

SARAH HELOISE FIELD Appointed: 2021 Occupation: Entrepreneur

Legal constitution

Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 04/11/2002, number: 1094478
Registered at Companies House on 07/05/2002, number: 04432166

Gift Aid

Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid

Policies in force

Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
Campaigns and political activity policy and procedures
Complaints handling
Complaints policy and procedures
Conflicting interests
Engaging external speakers at charity events 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
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

Filing Record

20 returns made; AR13: 2 days late,

Main office

Sand Dams Worldwide
7-14 Great Dover Street
London
SE1 4YR

Objectives

THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE:-1. TO PROMOTE THE CONSERVATION, PROTECTION AND IMPROVEMENT OF THE PHYSICAL AND NATURAL ENVIRONMENT FOR PUBLIC BENEFIT, AND2. TO RELIEVE POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY SUPPORTING SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS AND3. TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE SUBJECTS OF SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT, CONSERVATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE UNDERTAKING AND DISSEMINATION OF RESEARCH. (PLEASE SEE COPY OF THE SPECIAL RESOLUTION ON FILE FOR DETAILS).

Defined Area of Benefit:

NATIONAL AND OVERSEAS

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