Support from trusts and foundations across the UK, Europe and the globe enable us to carry out vital emergency aid and long-term development projects around the world, tackling the root causes of poverty and its effects.
Christian Aid works across 26 countries globally, around our key pillars of climate justice, gender justice, governance and peacebuilding.
If you’re interested in supporting Christian Aid through your trust or foundation, we’d love to hear from you.
Testimonial from The Grace Trust
The Grace Trust serves as one of the charitable entities of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church in the UK. Funded by donations from the Church community, the Trust provides grants to support initiatives that benefit society while aligning with its members’ Christian principles of care and compassion. Speaking about the Grace Trust’s decision to support Christian Aid, Charles Hathorn, Trustee of the Grace Trust said.
“The Grace Trust has a long history of supporting Christian Aid. Like Christian Aid, we are guided by Christian principles in all that we do—championing education, providing humanitarian aid, and working to alleviate poverty. We support communities regardless of faith, and this alignment in ethos and values makes our decision to support Christian Aid a natural one.
An important consideration for the Trust is ensuring our grants make a meaningful and lasting impact. Our experience partnering with Christian Aid has demonstrated this impact—knowing that our support reaches those who need it most.”
Supporting Christian Aid's humanitarian work
Trusts and foundations also support our emergency response work at times of crisis. With the support of trusts and foundations, our humanitarian work reaches millions of people every year in urgent need.
Click this link to find out more about our current emergency appealsAdvocating for Economic Policies that Support Women's Rights across Africa:
Below is one example of work supporting female empowerment, funded by a US-based foundation.
Christian Aid is working with partners across 8 African countries to promote economic policies that support gender equality and women's rights. As a result we have seen women much more involved in decision-making, and new coalitions of women's rights groups, economic justice and faith groups coming together for greater impact. We have also seen governments beginning to ask for input in their economic policy making, in a way that they have not done before. As part of this work Christian Aid has also amplified the voices of African advocates for women's economic justice in global decision-making spaces. In March 2024 at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York, together with our partners, we called on policy makers to implement structural economic reforms for women's rights including providing deeper debt relief, and to assess all fiscal policies from a gender perspective. In the coming years we will link with more faith groups to advocate for economic justice, as well as step up our advocacy to regional institutions like the African Union.