UK Companies House feature
PRACTICAL ACTION
Profile
- Company number
- 00871954
- Status
- Active
- Incorporation
- 1966-02-21
- Last accounts made up
- 2025-03-31
- Account category
- GROUP
- Primary SIC
- 88990
- Hubs
- UK Healthcare
Accounts
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Audit & accounting basis
From AI-extracted PDF accounts
- Accounting basis
- FRS 102
- Reporting scope
- Consolidated (group)
- Auditor
- Crowe U.K. LLP
- Audit opinion
- Unqualified (clean)
- Going concern
- Affirmed
“Practical Action adopted a proactive and prudent approach in 2025, paying close attention to the risks posed to income and to expenditure and level of reserves. We anticipate keeping reserves within the target range and so retaining considerable financial resilience against future uncertainty. We are therefore confident that the organisation remains a going concern.”
Subsidiaries
- Practical Action Consulting Limited · 100% held · England · Consultants for agriculture and industry
- Practical Action Publishing Limited · 100% held · England · Publishers and booksellers
- Intermediate Technology Publications Limited · 100% held · England · Publishers and booksellers
- Intermediate Technology Development Group Limited · 100% held · England · Developers of agriculture and industrial machinery
- ATS Property Holdings Private Limited · 100% held · Sri Lanka · Property purchase, lease moveable, immoveable property
- Practical Action Consulting Private Limited Nepal · 51% held · Nepal · Consultants for agriculture and industry
- Practical Action Consulting (India) Private Limited · 99.9% held · India · Consultants for agriculture and industry
- Practical Action Consulting Limited · 100% held · Malawi · Consultants for agriculture and industry
- Practical Action Consulting Bangladesh Limited · 99% held · Bangladesh · Consultants for agriculture and industry
- Practical Action Consulting S.A.C Limited · 51% held · Peru · Consultants for agriculture and industry
Significant events
- “The substantial reduction of USAID funding globally has impacted our programmes - and we envisage it will continue to have an impact going forwards as there is increased competition for funding.”
Auditor / going-concern / subsidiary information is extracted from the PDF version of the latest annual accounts and is not tagged in iXBRL. About these numbers
People
14 active · 65 resigned
| Name | Role | Appointed | Born | Nationality |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PRYOR, Donna Susan | Secretary | 2025-03-31 | — | — |
| CHOUDHURY, Fayezul Haque | Director | 2020-04-01 | Feb 1954 | British |
| HAIKIN, Matthew James | Director | 2021-09-07 | Aug 1972 | British |
| IRELAND, Claire | Director | 2024-07-10 | Sep 1973 | Australian,British |
| KHANNA, Deepali | Director | 2025-12-03 | Oct 1962 | Canadian |
| LIAO, William Fu Wei | Director | 2021-09-07 | Sep 1967 | Irish |
| MOJAPELO, Sazini | Director | 2024-04-12 | Jan 1979 | Zimbabwean |
| SLOANE, Jane Louise | Director | 2024-07-10 | Jul 1963 | Australian |
| SMITH, Philip Hunter | Director | 2025-12-03 | Apr 1970 | British |
| STUDER NOGUEZ, Isabel | Director | 2024-07-10 | Jun 1963 | Mexican |
| TEMISEVA, Aki | Director | 2024-07-10 | Sep 1964 | Finnish |
| TYLER, Martin Charles | Director | 2020-04-01 | Jul 1961 | British |
| WADHWA, Shivani | Director | 2021-09-07 | Oct 1974 | Swiss |
| WAHBA, Mourad | Director | 2021-09-07 | Jan 1959 | Egyptian |
Show 65 resigned officers
| Name | Role | Appointed | Resigned |
|---|---|---|---|
| ADEY, Patricia Rose | Secretary | 2000-03-30 | 2018-06-11 |
| BARKER, David Andrew | Secretary | 1998-09-11 | 2000-03-30 |
| LOCKETT, John Duncan | Secretary | 2018-06-15 | 2021-07-08 |
| MARSHALL, Alison Hilary | Secretary | 2006-12-08 | 2006-12-08 |
| MCINTOSH, Lesley Anne | Secretary | 2024-07-10 | 2024-11-10 |
| PAGE, Stephen David | Secretary | 2021-07-08 | 2022-08-16 |
| SINKER, Nigel Dalcour | Secretary | — | 1997-08-01 |
| SMITH, Pauline Theresa | Secretary | 1997-08-01 | 1998-08-24 |
| WALKER, John Angus | Secretary | 2006-12-08 | 2006-12-08 |
| ARMOR, Murray | Director | — | 1995-10-19 |
| ASHBURTON, Sarah, Lady | Director | 1996-02-01 | 1999-10-25 |
| BARING, Teresa Anne | Director | 1999-03-24 | 2005-11-18 |
| BARNETT, John Andrew | Director | — | 1994-01-04 |
| BELSHAW, Hugh Richard | Director | 1995-03-28 | 2006-12-08 |
| BORDEN, Jennifer Edith | Director | 1997-10-16 | 2006-12-08 |
| CASSONI, Maria Luisa | Director | 1997-10-16 | 1998-07-31 |
| CHADWICK, Mary Elizabeth Jane, Dr | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2017-07-27 |
| CHIGUDU, Hope | Director | 2022-04-20 | 2024-10-03 |
| CLARKE, Roger, Dr | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2020-12-08 |
| COLCHESTER, Nicholas Benedick Sparrowe | Director | 1996-03-26 | 1996-09-25 |
| COULTER, John Hobson | Director | 1998-11-05 | 2006-02-24 |
| CREWE, Emma, Dr | Director | 2007-03-30 | 2014-10-09 |
| DALE, Henry | Director | 1994-12-06 | 2005-11-18 |
| ELOBEID, Elwaleed Mohamed Elbashir | Director | 2017-09-29 | 2020-12-08 |
| FROST, Dennis Hyde | Director | — | 1994-09-27 |
| GODDARD, Philip Jack | Director | 1994-03-29 | 1997-10-10 |
| GUTHRIE, Peter Moir, Professor | Director | 1999-03-24 | 2006-04-25 |
| HASLAM, Dominic Newton | Director | 2009-09-25 | 2015-10-08 |
| HASSAN, Mahmood, Mr. | Director | 2007-06-27 | 2016-07-27 |
| HAYMAN, Ben | Director | 2005-04-11 | 2008-10-02 |
| HESKETT, John Errington | Director | 2005-07-05 | 2014-06-18 |
| JOLLIFFE, Valerie Celia | Director | 2016-12-07 | 2019-12-11 |
| KHAN, Imran | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2018-10-04 |
| LEWIS, Ash | Director | 2001-06-01 | 2003-03-20 |
| LIPSON, Brenda Ann | Director | 2012-09-27 | 2021-10-27 |
| LOWE, Veronica Ann | Director | 1994-01-25 | 1996-02-01 |
| MARSDEN, Edmund Murray | Director | 1998-09-11 | 2000-03-31 |
| MARSDEN, Edmund Murray | Director | 1994-06-24 | 1998-02-05 |
| MARSHALL, Alison Hilary | Director | 2006-12-08 | 2015-10-08 |
| MARTIN, Adrienne Mary | Director | — | 1995-10-19 |
| MCNEIL, Ruth | Director | 2004-11-05 | 2014-03-27 |
| MCROBIE, Frank Allan | Director | 2004-03-31 | 2010-12-16 |
| MITLIN, Diana Clare | Director | 1997-02-05 | 2007-09-27 |
| MOLYNEUX, Helena Mary | Director | 2008-12-11 | 2019-12-11 |
| OAKE, Richard Hellyar | Director | 1994-03-29 | 1999-10-25 |
| PINTO, Yvonne Maria, Dr | Director | 2019-04-01 | 2022-04-01 |
| SAXBY-SOFFE, Richard Nigel | Director | 2010-10-08 | 2020-12-10 |
| SCOTT, Peter John Lindsay | Director | — | 1995-10-19 |
| SELBIE, George Nicholas | Director | 2003-01-03 | 2010-03-04 |
| SHERA, James Masih | Director | — | 1995-10-19 |
| SIBANDE, Rachel | Director | 2021-09-07 | 2024-10-03 |
| SMITH, James Rob, Professor | Director | 2011-06-30 | 2020-07-09 |
| SMITH, Joanne | Director | 2017-09-29 | 2023-10-05 |
| STEVENS, Bryan Constant Bentham | Director | 2000-05-11 | 2009-09-24 |
| SUTCLIFFE, Sean George Cronin | Director | 2004-04-01 | 2013-12-11 |
| THIN, Neil, Dr | Director | 2000-03-30 | 2009-12-10 |
| THOMSON, Charles Howard | Director | 2001-12-13 | 2005-05-17 |
| THORNTON, Ian Andrew | Director | 2016-03-23 | 2024-12-04 |
| TURNER, Paul Leonard | Director | 2011-06-30 | 2017-09-28 |
| WALFORD, Veronica | Director | 2009-09-25 | 2018-07-05 |
| WALKER, John Angus | Director | 2006-12-08 | 2015-10-08 |
| WATSON, Stephen Roger, Professor | Director | 2005-03-10 | 2013-12-11 |
| WAYTH, Helena | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2021-10-02 |
| YOUNG, Graham David | Director | 2015-07-23 | 2024-12-04 |
| ZUCKERMAN, Paul Sebastian | Director | — | 1996-03-26 |
Ownership
Persons with significant control
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Filing timeline
Last 20 of 305 total filings
| Date | Type | Category | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-12-08 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-12-08 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2025-12-05 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2025-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2025-09-30 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-09-30 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-09-11 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-04-24 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-04-08 | AP03 | officers | appoint person secretary company with name date |
| 2025-04-08 | TM02 | officers | termination secretary company with name termination date |
| 2025-02-21 | CH01 | officers | change person director company with change date |
| 2025-02-21 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-02-21 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2025-02-21 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2024-11-28 | AA | accounts | accounts with accounts type group |
| 2024-10-29 | CS01 | confirmation-statement | confirmation statement with no updates |
| 2024-10-03 | TM01 | officers | termination director company with name termination date |
| 2024-08-21 | AP03 | officers | appoint person secretary company with name date |
| 2024-07-15 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
| 2024-07-11 | AP01 | officers | appoint person director company with name date |
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