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)	2017	2016	2015
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.	30.6	32.0	32.8
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.	7.0	5.8	7.0
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	2.3	5.8
DEC This is income from the Disasters Emergency Committee.	2.6	0.2	4.3
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).	9.8	19.9	15.2
Trading income	2.5	0	0
Other Other income includes bank interest, sales of education packs, fees from teacher visits and Affinity credit cards.	0.2	0.2	0.1
Totals	55.0	60.4	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 provided over 65% of our income in 2017.

Briony Campbell/ActionAid

80 schools took part in Big Me 2017, ActionAid’s dress-up day with a difference.

Together you raised thousands of pounds to help ActionAid change the lives of women and girls, for good.

ActionAid

In 2017 50 volunteers from the UK, the Channel Islands and Sweden travelled to Nepal to help build a classroom block that was destroyed during the 2015 earthquakes.

They raised the funds for the construction and got physically involved digging earthquake-resilient foundations for the new building, working alongside local builders.

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 gave us over 25% of our income in 2017. Thank you!

These our some of our major funders: