How we spend your donations

How we spend your money

Here's the breakdown of our spending in 2025, which was £304.7 million: 

• 74% was spent helping people in crisis (excluding support costs). For example, crisis response, refugee support and international work. 
• 13% was spent on support costs, such as human resources, IT, central management, finance and governance. This spending is essential for our organisation to run efficiently and allows us to help as many people in crisis as possible
• 12% was spent on fundraising, excluding the costs of running our high street shops

How your donation helps 

We spent £228.1 million helping people in crisis in 2025.

In the UK:

• 15.8% was spent on disasters and emergencies
• 23.4% was spent on health and care.
• 12.3% was spent on displacement and migration

In the rest of the world:

• 48.5% was spent on our work across the world.

We publish data on all our international grants on the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) website. Read more about using IATI data. 

How we raise money

Our income of £293.5 million comes from a variety of sources:

• £46.4 million from emergency appeals
• £247.1 million from other sources including donations and legacies, charitable activities, trading activities, investments and others.

For a full breakdown of our income and expenditure, take a look at our annual report and accounts.