For over 50 years we have been supporting people to access the kind of social, leisure and learning lifestyle that everyone should take for granted

Awards

In 2017, on our 50th anniversary Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II awarded us the Queen's Award for Voluntary Service, recognised as the MBE for volunteer groups.

The BUILD Charity in numbers

• 280 separate community based opportunities offered to people with a disability in Norfolk in 2019-20
• 9,000 (estimated) engagements with our beneficiaries and their carers
• 1,952 engagements where volunteers supported our programmes and governance
• only 13p in every £1 spent by the charity is passed on to our beneficiaries (a cost we have brought down from 28p in 2016)
• 78 Registered volunteers (November 2020)
• 20% of our volunteers identify as having a disability

The BUILD Charity in pictures

View our annual Show Reel of activities in 2019 here  

and our 2020 Show Reel here

The BUILD Charity - Annual Report and Accounts

BUILD Charity Annual Report & Accounts 2019-20

Build Charity has provided a place of safety for people with any type of disability to feel accepted and do activities within the community.  They can go to a restaurant, ten pin bowling, go for walks, climbing, gardening with other people; thereby establishing relationships within a safe environment.  BUILD enables them to go on public transport with support so that they can access other facilities.

By Build providing these supported activities people with different disabilities can go out without their parents/carer to enable them to lead a ‘normal life’.  They can choose the activities in which they would like to participate they were.

Without BUILD Charity the person with a disability would lead a lonely life and would find be isolated from the world ant not be able to join in the activities which are now available to them.

From an Anonymous Parent-Carer