How we spend your donations

How we spend your money

Here's the breakdown of our spending in 2023, which was £322.7 million: 

•    64.8% was spent helping people in crisis (excludes support costs). For example, crisis response, refugee support and international work. 
•    21% was spent on fundraising and retail (excludes support costs). 
•    14.2% 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.

How your donation helps 

We spent £245.5 million helping people in crisis in 2023.

In the UK:

• 8.7% was spent on crisis response
• 11.6% was spent on first aid education
• 10.2% was spent on refugee support
• 24% was spent on home care services.

In the rest of the world:

• 45.5% was spent on international emergency and response.

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 £330.6 million comes from a variety of sources:

• 57.1% from donations and legacies
• 27.8% from charitable activities
• 12.5% from other trading activities
• 2.6% from investments and others 

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