Practical Action
Charitable organization in United Kingdom which works directly with Latin America, East Africa, Southern Africa and South Asia, with particular concentration on Peru, Bolivia, Kenya, Sudan, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Nepal.
Practical Action
Summary
Practical Action is a charitable organization[1] [2]
Key Facts
Practical Action is in the country of United Kingdom[3]
Practical Action's instance of is recorded as charitable organization[4]
Practical Action's instance of is recorded as nonprofit organization[5]
Practical Action's headquarters location is recorded as United Kingdom[6]
Practical Action's ISNI is recorded as 0000000094491269[7]
Practical Action's VIAF cluster ID is recorded as 153465006[8]
Practical Action's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as n79069850[9]
Practical Action's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 123934208[10]
Practical Action's IdRef ID is recorded as 033025371[11]
Practical Action's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/06l5tz[12]
Practical Action's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ko2007248503[13]
Practical Action's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ko2007248502[14]
Practical Action's official website is recorded as http://practicalaction.org[15]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+649'}[16]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+590'}[17]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+511'}[18]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+558'}[19]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+541'}[20]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+450'}[21]
Practical Action's employees is recorded as {'unit': '1', 'amount': '+478'}[22]
Practical Action's OpenCorporates ID is recorded as gb/00871954[23]
Practical Action's legal form is recorded as charitable organization[24]
Practical Action's BBC Things ID is recorded as 3ba7202d-5ad2-4f71-af0c-53afc16fd901[25]
Practical Action's X is recorded as PracticalAction[26]
Practical Action's Facebook username is recorded as PracticalAction[27]
Body
Operations
Practical Action's headquarters location is recorded as United Kingdom[6]
Why It Matters
Practical Action draws 7 Wikipedia views per month (charitable_organization category, ranking #92 of 422).[2]
🏛️ Registry record
Active
Company status
PRI/LBG/NSC (Private, Limited by guarantee, no share capital, use of 'Limited' exemption)
Company number 00871954
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⭐ Popularity Graph
8/100
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📈 Wikipedia Views
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501/yr
⛏️ Lake Facts
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Openalex idP10283
I127506496
2026-09-27
openalex (CC0 1.0)
Short nameP1813
ITDG
2026-09-26
ror (cc0-1.0+geonames-cc-by-4.0)
CC0 1.0 (OpenAlex snapshot, openalex.org). Values as shipped.
ROR data dump: CC0 1.0 (ror.org). locations.* comes from GeoNames under CC BY 4.0 — credit GeoNames (geonames.org) when those columns are used. Organizations only; no personal fields.
Quick Facts
Inception
February 21, 1966
Properties
Bequest income
unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +3227000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +3700000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +2950000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +3380000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +3679000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +2513000
Donations
unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +11124000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +12167000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +13367000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +14386000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +12406000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +12796000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +11863000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +11377631, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +12937000
Employees
unit: 1, amount: +649, unit: 1, amount: +590, unit: 1, amount: +511, unit: 1, amount: +558, unit: 1, amount: +541, unit: 1, amount: +450, unit: 1, amount: +478
Imported from
wholeness_audit_2026-05-02
Street address
THE ROBBINS BUILDING, 25 ALBERT STREET, RUGBY, WARWICKSHIRE, ENGLAND, CV21 2SD
Total revenue
unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +36072000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +31204000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +30439000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +32153000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +33187000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +27867000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +26950000, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +30020557, unit: www.wikidata.org , amount: +33140000
External References (24)
Bbc things id
3ba7202d-5ad2-4f71-af0c-53afc16fd901
Bibliothèque nationale de france id
123934208
Charity commission no.
247257
Companies house company id
00871954
Eu transparency register id
13386822830-30
Facebook username
PracticalAction
Freebase id
/m/06l5tz
Grid id
grid.437100.1
Iati organisation id
GB-COH-871954
Idref id
033025371
Isni
0000000094491269
Library of congress authority id
n79069850
Linkedin company or organization id
practicalaction
Microsoft academic id (discontinued)
127506496
National library of israel j9u id
987007352511205171
Nl cr aut id
ko2007248503, ko2007248502
Opencorporates id
gb/00871954
Quora topic id
Practical-Action
Ringgold id
95331
Ror id
039neah40
Scilit organization id
28664
Viaf cluster id
153465006
X (twitter) username
PracticalAction
Yale lux id
group/bca9b40d-be64-4035-ae38-6216acae20e2
🌐 Available in 4 languages
🏷️ Also known as
en Practical Actiones Soluciones Practicas
🔗 Connections
← Affiliated with
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