Where your money goes

Thanks to the amazing generosity of our supporters, we’re able to have a big impact on the lives of the women and girls we work with.

Our aim is to make sure your donations go as far as possible.

Our audited 2025 figures will be available in June 2026.

How we invested your money in 2024

In 2024, ActionAid in the UK spent £48.7 million, 77% of which was on charitable activities.

Our charitable activities include grants to the ActionAid Federation, emergency and humanitarian work, campaigning and policy influencing in the UK and overseas, and education work in the UK. The focus of these activities is to enable people living in poverty to hold governments and companies to account, to improve the quality of public education, respond to emergencies and to promote the rights of women and girls. 

Take a look at the pie chart below to see the exact figures and the kinds of things we invest your money in.

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

Our expenditure in 2024

Our expenditure in 2019: pie chart
Area of expenditure(£m)%
 

Humanitarian and development programmes and strengthening our global federation

32.867%
 

Fundraising

8.117%
 

Support costs (running the organisation)

6.113%
 

Campaigning for change 

1.73%
Total48.7100%

What you helped us achieve in 2024

Every day we hear incredible stories of how the lives of women and girls are changing for the better.

With your support in 2024 our work has helped to transform lives - whether that's by helping to alleviate period poverty, distributing life-saving aid in emergencies such as during the Bangaldesh floods or training women and girls with skills that help lift them out of poverty.

Here is an example of how your donations helped in 2024.

 

Response to the 2024 Bangladesh floods

In the flood-stricken village of Krishnapur, Noakhali, Bangladesh, 24-year-old Tajnahar waited for relief and supplies as aid failed to reach remote neighbourhoods like hers. 

Stranded in a makeshift shelter with dozens of families, as floodwaters cut her and others off from aid, Tajnahar struggled to feed her five-year-old son. 

As part of our emergency response ActionAid and our local partners helped over 3000 individuals in the 8 unions of Noakhali by providing them with relief packages containing dry food, basic groceries, matches, candles and water purifiers. 

Tajnahar struggled to feed her son following the floods. Fahad Kaizer/ActionAid

Fahad Kaizer/ActionAid

Reducing unpaid care work for women

2020 saw the conclusion of ActionAid’s flagship five-year Promoting Opportunities for Women’s Empowerment and Rights (POWER) project.

Reaching over 19,500 women in Rwanda, Ghana, Bangladesh, POWER helped reduce the burdens of unpaid care work on women and supported a more equal redistribution of work between household members.

Through POWER, smallholder women farmers expanded the use of climate-resilient farming practices, and women’s access to markets has significantly improved through skills training and knowledge sharing.

Supporting grassroots movements in Ghana

When Covid-19 struck the Oti region of Ghana, it escalated violence and forced marriages for thousands of women and girls.

But Agnes Afua Obour and her team at the Network of Communities in Development (NOCID) brought together traditional leaders, girls’ clubs and volunteers across 30 communities to end violence against women and girls for good.

With your help, we raised over £9,000 to help Agnes and NOCID to organise community forums for women and girls to share their experiences and ideas for action to end violence; fund young people to run anti-child marriage and sexual violence campaigns and train community groups to provide counselling to survivors of violence in schools. 

Find out more about forced child marriage

Almost half a million people in Gaza have been reached by our humanitarian aid.

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Providing fresh food to the people of Gaza

Through our local partner, Wefaq Society for Women and Child Care, we have helped distribute healthy and fresh food to the people of Gaza.

The ongoing conflict and closure of borders has made malnourishment a critical problem in Gaza. 

By working with local partners, we have been able to provide not only food but also cooking fuel to those who urgently need it.

So far we have reached almost half a million people with humanitarian assistance in Gaza.

Supporting refugees through employment

The Conflict Kitchen is an ActionAid partner set up in Poland by Jarmila Rybicka.

The restaurant employs refugees, mainly women, who have fled their homes. This gives them an income and a chance to integrate with the local community.

Many of the women working there were forced away from their homes in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict.

The kitchen provides a safe place for the women to work in, while also breaking down stereotypes about refugees, allowing local people to meet them and try dishes from their home countries.

Jarmila Rybicka (pictured left) has created a safe space for refugees to work in

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     Top image: Hibaq has been living in an IDP in an IDP camp in Somaliland with their mother, sister Nimco, brother and grandmother since 2017. Karin Schermbrucker/ActionAid 

    Page updated 2 September 2025