Last year supporters helped us raise £65.7 million.

Despite difficult economic circumstances we raised £1 million more in 2010 than 2009, and were able to increase our spending on charitable activities by over £2.5 million.

Although the total number of supporters who donate on a regular basis fell, our voluntary income actually grew 8%.

Our appeal for Haiti raised more money than any other in our history, and together with the Pakistan floods appeal raised over £1.9 million.

During 2010 we spent a total of £63.8 million on fighting poverty.

Our charitable expenditure overseas increased by £3.2 million to £49.8 million due to increased funding for emergencies.

ActionAid's charitable activities are split between supporting our campaigning and influencing work in the UK, and the grants that we make to the rest of ActionAid globally to support our programmes.

The former dropped by 5% in the year from £2.85 million to £2.7 million, mainly as a result of the end of the Global Action Schools project.

We changed millions of lives in 47 countries

ActionAid UK is part of a global ActionAid family that operates in 47 countries around the world. The money we spent brought about significant changes to the lives of millions of people in local communities. And we made some national and global impacts too.

• In Haiti, 12,000 people were provided with post-trauma counselling through 28 ActionAid-trained community volunteers.
• In Pakistan, we had reached 118,765 individuals by the end of 2010, helping them rebuild their homes and their livelihoods.
• We helped more than 1,000 girls from 13 schools to form girls' clubs in Ghana which led to an increase in girls' enrolment.
• Many children in Kolkata, India, do their homework by streetlight. We asked local businesses for rooms so children could study. 150 children can now read and write in safety.
• In Haiti we set up cash-for-work programmes which benefitted 34,000 people by the end of 2010.
• From Afghanistan to Zambia our adult literacy scheme, Reflect, is used by over 500 organisations in 70 countries.
• In Kenya, we helped hundreds of orphans register for birth certificates, meaning they can now attend school and sit exams.
  
  

We campaigned to change the things that keep people poor

People all over the world are quietly getting on with freeing themselves from poverty. But we believe business leaders and politicians have a vital role to play, which is why we challenge, influence and hold to account the government, corporations and other institutions in the UK.

• Almost 800 UK schools sponsored a child, and 500 schools continued with our Sukulu Malawi! project.
• In 2010 two major shareholders withdrew investments from mining company Vedanta, whose activities threaten tribal communities in India.
• Our tax justice campaign hit UK and global headlines in November when we exposed how multinational brewer SABMiller avoids an estimated £20 million of taxes in Africa and India each year using tax havens.
• Andrew Mitchell, Secretary of State for International Development, took part in an ActionAid 'immersion', where he stayed with a family in Ethiopia. He's promised to roll out immersions across his department.
• We lobbied, and secured, from the new government an official government post for international violence against women.
• The 1GOAL campaign had over 9,000 schools take part, holding World Cup assemblies and delivering giant paper supporter scarves to Downing Street.
• The Send my Sister to School project has been addressing the barriers stopping girls going to school.
• ActionAid rocked the festivals, as our 80-strong volunteer army collected over 18,000 signatures for our campaign to end hunger.