Finance Score: 0
Governance Score: 6
Support Score: 4
  • Good reserves management: +3
  • Volatile income
  • spending growth: -1
  • Fundraising costs high: -2
  • Good trustee age range: +3
  • Dynamic board: +3
  • Grant maker support: +4
Overall GiG Score: 10 ?

BUILD IT INTERNATIONAL 

Creating jobs and opportunities to make a living through projects that build essential community facilities, training local builders and communities in construction and business skills, promoting environmentally sound technolgies and appropriate building design.
Analysis by Giving is Great

Positives:

  • The charity has received backing from a grant maker
  • Reserves management has been consistently within official guidelines
  • Spending has increased over the last 3 years relative to the previous period
  • There have been no material income shortfalls in recent years
  • The Board appears to be well diversified in terms of age and dynamic in terms of composition

Financial issues to consider:

  • Income has been volatile recently but spending has been maintained
  • Fundraising costs are high relative to funds raised
Established: 18 years

www.builditinternational.org

info@builditinternational.org

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Financial Data ?

Income & Spending ?
Sources of Income ?
Y/E Income
£k
Spending
£k
Surplus/
Deficit
Fundraising
Cost £k
Total
Funds £k
Unrestricted
Funds £k
Mths
Rsrvs
Staff Volun-
teers
31/12/22*£1,009£1,254£-245£233£1,144£6185.93020
31/12/21£1,243£1,094£149£219£1,560£6166.83224
31/12/20£1,141£953£188£204£1,411£55973129
31/12/19£1,379£1,190£189£257£1,223£4874.93132
31/12/18£1,358£1,024£334£213£1,035£4865.72719
31/12/17£1,020£974£46£219£701£2843.5230
31/12/16£1,023£978£45£235£655£3153.9230
31/12/15£939£926£13£201£610£3664.7190
31/12/14£1,010£838£173£197£597£3334.8150
31/12/13£942£827£114£162£425£2844.1140
31/12/12?£1,082£1,155£-73£209£310£2212.3100
30/06/11£752£545£208£100£383£2505.590
30/06/10£420£395£25£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/09£255£232£23£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/08£172£106£67£0£0£0n/a00
30/06/07£81£25£56£0£0£0n/a00

Financial Ratios
Fundraising Costs/Relevant Income: 23.9%
Fundraising Costs/Total Spending: 18.6%
Senior Staff Costs/Total Spending: 12%
Highest pay band: £60,000-£70,000
Liabilities/Assets: 10%
Liabilities/Income: 13%
Unrestricted Funds/Total Funds: 54%
Reserves/Spending: 5.9 months
Net Current Assets/Spending: 7 months
Quick Ratio: 5.8
Asset Split ?
Listed activities
  • Accommodation/Housing
  • Economic/Community Development/Employment
  • Education/Training
  • Overseas Aid/Famine Relief
  • The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty
How it operates
  • Provides advocacy/advice/information
  • Provides buildings/facilities/open space
  • Provides services
Where it operates
  • Zambia,
Who it helps
  • Children/Young People
  • The General Public/Mankind
Who works here?
  • 30 employees
  • 20 volunteers

Who's supporting them? ?

Donations from Grant Makers ?

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

Specific Donations
Amount When
Months
To be used for
Charles Hayward Foundation - Grant to Build It International
£14,700 27/10/2021
Safe Hands projects - to provide Zambian Schools with newly desinged permanent hand washing stations to enable multiple children to wash their hands at once
Tudor Trust - Grant to Build It International
£60,000 18/04/2018
12
towards the construction of a Centre of Excellence in Lusaka, Zambia to provide training in construction skills to young men and women
Tudor Trust - Grant to Build It International
£14,500 11/03/2014
as an additional capital grant towards the completion of a two-bedroom teachers' house and a latrine at the Shipungu School in Zambia

Data sourced from Donors via 360 Giving

How is it governed?

Trustees (8)
Current Trustees appointed
Gender Split
Based on 7/8 persons

Age Range of Trustees: 34-68
  • NASIR ALI Appointed: 2023, Occupation: Chartered Accountant
Legal constitution
  • Charitable company registered in England & Wales on 01/09/2006, number: 1115989
  • Registered at Companies House on 30/06/2005, number: 05495358
Gift Aid
  • Registered with HMRC for Gift Aid
Policies in force
  • Complaints handling
  • Conflicting interests
  • Investment
  • Risk management
  • Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
  • Volunteer management
Filing Record
16 returns made; AR22: 44 days late,
Main office

BUILD IT INTERNATIONAL
Windsor House
Windsor Place
SHREWSBURY
SY1 2BY

Objectives

(3.1) THE CHARITY'S OBJECTS (THE OBJECTS) ARE TO PROMOTE SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC BY:(3.1.1) THE RELIEF OF POVERTY AND THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE PARTICULARLY IN SOCIALLY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AND FLOOD-PRONE COMMUNITIES;(3.1.2) THE PROMOTION OF SUSTAINABLE MEANS OF ACHIEVING ECONOMIC GROWTH AND REGENERATION;(3.1.3) THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, PARTICULARLY IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION, OF DEPRIVED AND FLOOD-PRONE COMMUNITIES;(3.1.4) THE PRESERVATION, CONSERVATION AND THE PROTECTION OF THE ENVIRONMENT AND THE PRUDENT USE OF NATURAL RESOURCES(3.2) 'SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT' MEANS DEVELOPMENT THAT MEETS THE NEEDS OF THE PRESENT WITHOUT COMPROMISING THE ABILITY OF FUTURE GENERATIONS TO MEET THEIR OWN NEEDS.

Defined Area of Benefit:

IN SOCIALY AND ECONOMICALLY DISADVANTAGED AND FLOOD-PRONE COMMUNITIES.

Data Sources

Charity Commission for England and Wales
360 Giving
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