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RE-ALLIANCE Aa ANNUAL REPORT SEP 2024- 2025 re/alliance

KEY INFORMATION

This is the fourth annual report for Re-Alliance. We are a Charitable Incorporated Organisation (CIO) which registered with the Charity Commission for England and Wales on 6th April 2020. Our governing document was adopted on 30.09.19 and is a Constitution of a Charitable Incorporated Organisation.

Charity Number: 1188936

Registered Address

Shawfield; Laughton; Lewes, BN8 6BY; United Kingdom

List of Trustees

Report Approved

Gideon Adeyeni This report was approved on 16th April Ruth Andrade, 2026 at an AGM by Members and Gisele Henriques, Directors and signed on their behalf by Georgina McAllister, Ruth Andrade: Peter Mellett Geoff O’Donoghue Ruth Andrade “ As international Aid budgets see devastating plummets, there is a clear and urgent need for accessible, nature-based, lower-cost, and community-led models for responding to humanitarian crises. The climate emergency is worsening each year, with four times more natural disasters than only a few decades ago. Our humanitarian responses need to have nature and communities at the heart. Re-Alliance’s increased revenue this financial year has directly enabled us to scale impact, alongside our 300+ grassroots members. We invite you to join us in growing this impact in the coming year."

Photo on previous page: Sandrine, a mushroom trainer, from Minak Projects in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, harvesting Oyster Mushrooms grown in reusable containers. Minak Projects worked alongside Re-Alliance to develop a learning guide on mushroom growing in camps and settlements. Read more here.

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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
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300+

Re-Alliance is a growing, international network of over 300 grassroots regenerative practitioners and local NGOs.

17

Re-Alliance partnered with members to implement 17 innovative regenerative pilot programmes.

8,743 VIEWS

Videos made in partnership with Re-Alliance members had nearly 9,000 views on our YouTube page in this financial year.

12,000+

Over 12,000 downloads on ReAlliance instructional booklets and guides on the Practical Action website, here, in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili and French.

This year has been a period of growth and consolidation for Re-Alliance. Increased revenue has allowed us to scale up our activities and extend the impact and influence of regenerative responses to displacement.

The devastating drop in international aid funding and subsequent redundancies within large INGOs has increased interest in our lower cost, community-led regenerative models and we are aware of the urgency to upscale to meet this interest and respond to need.

We send thanks to our members, a powerful network of grass-roots regenerative practitioners with whom we work with and learn from. We continue to strive to make sure we provide value to the network and ensure your voices are amplified and given priority for the strategic direction of our work.

Photo above: The first earthen house is being constructed at a pilot Regenerative Settlement project in Nakivale Refugee Settlement. This project is in partnership with YICE Uganda and Arup. Read more about it here.

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PUBLIC BENEFIT &
OBJECTIVES
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Our directors consider that they have complied with the duty (set out in Section 17(3) of the Charities Act 2011) to have due regard to public benefit guidance published by the Commission. In exercising their powers and duties as directors, the Board considers that the organisation’s strategies, aims and activities they have put in place are for the public benefit and this is fundamental to all areas of our operation in undertaking current activities, planning future activities and measuring outcomes.

Our organisational purpose is to:

“Advance the education of the public in general (and particularly amongst humanitarian and development professionals) on the subject of regenerative development and to promote research for the public benefit in all aspects of that subject and to publish the useful results.”

We do this by providing educational services, acting as an umbrella or resource body, making grants to other organisations, providing training, conducting research and through supplementary education.

Re-alliance is a membership organisation. Membership is free and is made up of a global and diverse group of regenerative responders who form a network. The membership have ultimate oversight of our work during annual AGM meetings.

Photo above: Re-Alliance supported a collaboration with the School of the Earth in Greece and the Wind Empowerment Network, to train grassroots practitioners in refugees camps on creating their own micro wind turbines for charging phones. Read more here.

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FINANCIAL REVIEW Receipts and Payments Accounts

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FINANCIAL REVIEW
The finances explained
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At the end of the period the charity held total funds of £193,622. These break down as:

Unrestricted: £31,719 Restricted: £161,903

At the close of the financial year, Re-Alliance maintained free unrestricted reserves of £30,000. Re-Alliance holds these reserves:

The Board of Directors will review the above criteria annually with reference to Re-Alliance’s strategy and vision and determine the target level of free reserves to meet these.

The Board of Directors may at times designate funds from free reserves for significant project costs or replacement of major assets.

Photo above: Re-Alliance worked with researchers to examine the longer term effects of regenerative food growing in Cox’s Bazar camps in Bangladesh. Read more here.

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ACHIEVEMENTS
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Achievement & performance

This year saw the completion of the first phase of the Regenerative Approaches for Camps and Settlements project which spanned three years.

We have secured funding for another four years’ for phase two of the project which will focus on Upscaling and Influencing with ongoing support from the same three funders.

With and for our members

Re-Alliance is a membership organisation comprised of over 300 members. During this time our membership of regenerative practitioners grew.

We continue to put representing our membership as a key priority, and as well as collaborating with our members, platforming their work, and facilitating knowledge exchange between them, we are continuously seeking to embed members more directly into our core operations and decision making.

Photo above: Re-Alliance member YICE Uganda has created a series of demonstration Permaculture gardens across Nakivale Refugee Settlement, in partnership with Refugee farmers.

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ACTION RESEARCH &
DEMONSTRATIONS
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Tendering and Piloting

We used an open tendering process to select and fund action research and demonstration pilot projects, attracting significant interest from the membership.

Third round completed

We completed 17 pilot projects over three rounds, and this year we concluded gathering evidence, reports and feedback from these projects.

Integrated Settlement

We secured land and partnered with local and international organisations to design a closed-loop settlement in Nakivale refugee camp, Uganda. This project also involved revising an existing UN guide for settlement design to include an ecological lens.

Research and evidence

We conducted a cost-benefit research project in Cox's Bazar refugee camp, regarding the viability of kitchen gardens. Despite local political instability, the results were published and reviewed positively by the Food Security Cluster.

Photo above: Farmers tending a Permaculture demonstration garden created by Re-Alliance partner Unidos Social Innovation Centre. See a recent film about their work, here.

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EDUCATIONAL OUTREACH
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Multilingual Publications

We published six short illustrated guides on topics such as community composting, wicking beds, and roof gardening. These are now available for free in English, Arabic, Swahili, French, Spanish, and Portuguese on our website and with Practical Action Publishing.

Case Studies & Course

We published online case studies for each pilot and demonstration project, helping to share learnings from the field. We also soft-launched the first module of our online course, an ‘Introduction to Community Based Regenerative Response’

Hearing from our members

We hosted a regenerative change webinar series, regular members’ meetings and members’ webinars to maintain direct communications with our broader network. We also hired two ‘community correspondents’ from within our network who will be sharing learnings directly from the field.

Research and evidencing

This year we have published our research on settlement design and food growing, written a chapter for a book on food growing in camps & produced longer guides on:

ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25

PILOTS

Alongside members and partners, Re-Alliance has piloted regenerative responses in contexts of displacement, learning what works, what needs adaptation, and what doesn’t work. Over the past 3 years, for the Regenerative Camps and Settlements Project, we have co-piloted a series of community-led responses. We put out an open call for applications, advertised through our membership and from the responses selected 17 projects in 3 funding rounds. This year we finalised the monitoring and evaluation and presented learnings from the projects in our written publications, webinars, blogs, podcasts and introductory course. The pilots undertaken were:

Winnie and YICE Uganda team member showing the rich soil improver created through a urinediversion dry EcoSan composting toilet. See a recent film about their work, here.

Ecological Sanitation

Peace and learning

Re-Alliance member Bee Rowan worked with IOM to co-create some flood resistant shelters in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, using Lime-stabilised Soil. Read more about this work, here.

Shelter & Energy

Food Growing

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REGENERATIVE REFUGEE
SETTLEMENT IN UGANDA
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In partnership with YICE Uganda and Arup, we have started the process of Co-designing and building a Regenerative Settlement with 20 households in Nakivale Refugee Settlement, Uganda.

This project tests the proposal that those closest to the challenges - refugees themselves - are best placed to create effective, dignified settlements that regenerate the lives of the people who live there and the land on which they depend. It is a unique opportunity to combine the many regenerative approaches already tried and tested in Nakivale into one integrated settlement.

Re-alliance will capture and present the stories and learnings from this project in freely accessible formats for community-level use. We have assembled a volunteer reference group, bringing in expertise from those with experience working on the Sphere Nature Based Solutions guide, the Ennead Master Plan approach, participatory design experience and humanitarian emergency response expertise. We are greatful to each of them, as well as to Arup for their pro-bono support.

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PUBLICATIONS
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In the past year we have published 7 short illustrated booklets (available in English, Arabic, Spanish, Portuguese, Swahili and French). These are free to download on the Re-Alliance website and with Practical Action Publishing.

These booklets were illustrated by artist Inga Orsi to visually communicate as much information as possible in the simplest way. The aim of these visual booklets is to enable grassroots community groups to implement their own solutions directly, with helpful step-by-step guides.

We also published 2 Longer guidelines:

Ecological Sanitation with Reuse in Camps and Settlements

These are longer guidelines aimed at agencies and larger local organisations which have greater context and research in order to design and deliver integrated regenerative programmes.

Photo above: Constructing the outer frame of an Arborloo composting toilet, alongside partners Unidos Social Innovation Centre. See a short film about Unidos creating Arborloos, here.

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A FREE ONLINE COURSE

This year we soft-launched our introductory online course, to gather feedback and assess its content. The course covers:

The revised edition of the course is now being uploaded to the Humanitarian Leadership Academy’s Kaya Connect platform as a free resource for local humanitarian and development agencies.

Future modules of the course will be exploring specific sectors, and how Regenerative approaches might be applied in different specific contexts. For example, modules focussing specifically on Nature-inspired Trauma Response, Regenerative Food Growing, and Ecological WASH practices. These are currently under development and will be available on Kaya Connect soon.

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Learning together with our Members: Webinars, Members’ Meetings and Community Correspondents

Between 2024 and 2025 we made some changes to the events we facilitate within the network. We moved from holding bimonthly Community of Practice sessions organised around a guiding theme, such as ‘Seeds and Diversity’ or ‘Climate Resilience’, towards events centring relationship-building and more informal knowledge exchange, with the launch of our monthly Community Calls being a particular highlight. Alongside these, we produced asynchronous webinars to overcome connectivity barriers and expand our learning library.

In addition to these meetings, due to popular demand, we also ran a series of monthly interactive ‘storytelling circles’ in which members were invited to bring communications projects they are working on and share advice with others about how to effectively promote their work.

Towards the end of this period we began recruiting for “Community Correspondents” - individuals from our network to join the team and use their storytelling and journalism skills to create more audio, visual and written stories about community-led regenerative practices, platforming the expertise of our membership and beyond.

Photo above: A few faces captured during our monthly community calls.. We have developed a tradition of taking a group photo.

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THANK YOU FOR READING See more at www.re-alliance.org

Winnie from YICE Uganda standing in front of an EcoSan urine diversion toilet. Find out more about ecological sanitation solutions for displacement contexts in this guide.

ANNUAL REPORT 2024-25

Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees Charity Name Re-Alliance On accounts for the year Charity no ended 30th September 2025 (if any)[1188936 ] Set out on pages 1 - 4 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/09/2025

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent

examiner's statement[I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have ] come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: ~~JahanzabArshad(Mar1~~ Jahanzab ~~3 ,202~~ Arshad ~~6 12:49GMT+1)~~ Date: 13/03/2026 Name: Jahanzab Arshad Relevant professional ACCA qualification(s) or body

Oct 2018

IER

1

(if any):

Address: C/O Easy Tax - Argentum 510 Bristol Business Park Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Oct 2018

IER

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Independent examiner's report on the accounts

Section A Independent Examiner’s Report

Report to the trustees Charity Name Re-Alliance On accounts for the year Charity no ended 30th September 2025 (if any)[1188936 ] Set out on pages 1 - 4 (remember to include the page numbers of additional sheets)

I report to the trustees on my examination of the accounts of the above charity (“the Trust”) for the year ended 30/09/2025

Responsibilities and basis of report

As the charity's trustees, you are responsible for the preparation of the accounts in accordance with the requirements of the Charities Act 2011 (“the Act”).

I report in respect of my examination of the Trust’s accounts carried out under section 145 of the 2011 Act and in carrying out my examination, I have followed all the applicable Directions given by the Charity Commission under section 145(5)(b) of the Act.

Independent

examiner's statement[I have completed my examination. I confirm that no material matters have ] come to my attention in connection with the examination which gives me cause to believe that in, any material respect:

I have no concerns and have come across no other matters in connection with the examination to which attention should be drawn in this report in order to enable a proper understanding of the accounts to be reached.

Signed: ~~JahanzabArshad(Mar1~~ Jahanzab ~~3 ,202~~ Arshad ~~6 12:49GMT+1)~~ Date: 13/03/2026 Name: Jahanzab Arshad Relevant professional ACCA qualification(s) or body

Oct 2018

IER

1

(if any):

Address: C/O Easy Tax - Argentum 510 Bristol Business Park Coldharbour Lane, Bristol, BS16 1EJ

Section B Disclosure

Only complete if the examiner needs to highlight material matters of concern (see CC32, Independent examination of charity accounts: directions and guidance for examiners).

Give here brief details of any items that the examiner wishes to disclose .

Oct 2018

IER

2