Practical Action

• Practical Action's work centres on livelihoods and climate resilience, with linked action on food, energy and climate risk, delivered through local and community partners, so a group doing similar partner-led work is the clearest fit.
• Its annual report shows annual giving of £4,050,000, but no grant range is published, so a sensible request size is not evident and the amount should follow your project rather than an assumed typical figure.
• No application process is published in the annual report, its register entry or its website, so the contact shown there is the only route to start with.
• The annual report shows grants mainly in World, Netherlands and Nepal, but no geographic focus is stated, so do not rule yourself out on location alone and ask them directly.
• Neither the annual report nor its website shows how competitive the funder is or whether existing relationships matter.

The largest grants to organisations in this funder’s latest annual report:

• World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
  £378,000year to 31 March 2025
• Carbon Trust
  £325,000year to 31 March 2025
• SNV Netherlands Development Organisation
  £300,000year to 31 March 2025
• DEPROSC-Nepal
  £226,000year to 31 March 2025

Grant examples taken from the funder’s filed accounts. Not included above: 1 line covering other, unnamed recipients (£2.8M).

• Grants paid, year to 31 March 2021; year to 31 March 2022; year to 31 March 2023; year to 31 March 2024: grants to institutions, as reported on the charity register (Part B).
• Grants paid, year to 31 March 2025: the accounts do not say whether this is grants awarded or paid.

Figures from the charity’s filed accounts and its register entry. The document icon links to the charity’s entry on the Charity Commission register, where its filed accounts can be found.

• Annual report (year to 31 March 2025)

This profile draws on the funder’s own website as well as its filed accounts.

Sources last checked on 23 October 2026.