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Registered charity · Rugby

Practical Action

Practical Action is a registered charity (number 247257) based in Rugby, governed by 13 trustees. Latest income £33m (2025). Source: Charity Commission register, updated 25th October 2026.

  • 13 trustees
  • Income £33m (2025)
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Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty, Overseas Aid/famine Relief and 2 more
Where
Bangladesh, Bolivia, India, Kenya and more
Website
www.practicalaction.org (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
Practical Action
Registered
1966

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£33m£32m
  • 2024£30m£31m
  • 2023£27m£29m
Earlier years
  • 2022£28m£28m
  • 2021£30m£29m

Income trend, 2021 to 2025.

Income source mix, 2025: Government grants 15%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION AND THE RELIEF OF POVERTY BY THE PROMOTION AND ADVANCEMENT (IN WAYS THAT ARE CHARITABLE) OF KNOWLEDGE OF TECHNICAL, ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL SCIENCE, AND FOR OTHER CHARITABLE PURPOSES BENEFICIAL TO THE COMMUNITY.

Grants received

28 grants · £8,997,802 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs · £3,528,525 (2 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £3,526,486 (6 grants)
  • Postcode International Trust · £1,600,000 (3 grants)
  • SHAREGIFT · £120,000 (10 grants)
  • Department for Science, Innovation and Technology · £91,818 (2 grants)

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Board analysis

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

13 trustees on the board

3.4y median 2y
average tenure
6y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

9.3y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (12)

Portfolio (1)

13
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Education/training 13The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 13The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 12Environment/conservation/heritage 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 14Professional services 7Tech and media 6

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£33.1m latest income
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.1 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 4.3 in 2021

478 from 511 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
247257
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 21/02/1966AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 19/10/1995AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 16/10/1997AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 02/10/2008AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/2009AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 27/09/2012 as amended on 08 Dec 2021
Companies House
Company number 00871954 · Active
Contact on the register
01926634412 · enquiries@practicalaction.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 25th October 2026
Labels
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