How we’re funded

We couldn’t do what we do without you – the amazing people who trust us with your money to help women and girls living in poverty change their lives, for good. Below you can see who gives us what.

Our income year on year

The pie chart below shows you who give us how much. As you can see, the largest percentage of our funding comes from individual committed giving: this fantastic support is the best guarantee of our independence as a charity.

To see this in more detail, you can download our annual reports or go to the International Aid Transparency Initiative website.

Chart

Income (£m)	2016	2015	2014
Committed giving This includes income from Child Sponsorship, The Next Step, Basics, Causes of Poverty, LottoAid, and our Country Programme General Fund and any Gift Aid collected from these amounts.	32.0	32.8	33.8
Appeals, individuals and legacies This includes income from legacies (e.g. Will Aid), Emergency appeals (e.g. Haiti,), regular appeals (e.g. SheCan), Gifts in Action, general donations, payroll giving, events, JustGiving.com, and any Gift Aid collected from these amounts.	5.8	7.0	6.3
NGOs, Trusts and companies This includes income from other NGOs and trusts such as Comic Relief and the Big Lottery Fund and also from companies. These can take the form of donations or grants.	2.3	5.8	6.1
DEC This is income from the Disasters Emergency Committee.	0.2	4.3	3.3
Government and EU (including DFID PPA) This includes income in the form of Grants from governments (e.g. the Department for International Development (DFID) and from EU agencies including ECHO and the European Union).	19.9	15.2	13.2
Other Other income includes bank interest, sales of education packs, fees from teacher visits and Affinity credit cards.	0.2	0.1	0.1
Totals	60.4	62.8	62.8

Our supporters

We’d like to say a huge thank you for the generous donations of all our supporters, from our community fundraisers through to our child sponsors, who provide over 60% of our income each year.

ActionAid

Thousands of you are ActionAid child sponsors, such as seven-year-old Molly Jones and her family who sponsor a child in Malawi.

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ActionAid

25 adventurers took part in our First-Hand Experience in Cambodia in 2016, where they built a new classroom block at a primary school in Kampot.

Together they raised over £60,000!

Find out about how you can visit our projects abroad

Our institutional donors

We’re also really grateful to the many NGOs, trusts, companies and government or EU funders who combined give us over 35% of our income each year. Thank you!

These our some of our major funders: