For over 55 years we have been supporting people to access the kind of social, leisure and learning lifestyle that is often taken 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

• 276 separate community based opportunities offered to people with a disability in Norfolk in 2021-22
• 2,500 individual engagement with people with disabilities using our services in 2021-22
• Over 700 individual 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)
• 49 Registered volunteers (June 2022)
• 16% of our volunteers identify as having a disability

The BUILD Charity in pictures

To watch our 2021 Showreel - Click HERE 

To watch our 2022 Showreel - Click HERE

“Thank you so much for the absolutely fantastic work you do in improving the lives of many many people.  Without you and BUILD there would be a great deal of loneliness and even despair I think.”  From a Parent Carer

The BUILD Charity - Annual Report and Accounts

BUILD Charity Annual Report and Accounts 2019-20

BUILD Charity Annual Report and Accounts 2020-21

BUILD Charity Annual Report and Accounts 2021-22

The BUILD Charity - The first 50 years

A film produced as part of our Golden Jubilee in 2017, this features footage from the 1960's through to the mid 2000's and shows how we have moved from people dancing around a record player in 1969 to hosting full nightclub parties  by 2012.  

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