Your gift makes a huge difference
We’re honoured to have long-term and generous support and trust of individuals and organisations whose significant gifts make a vital contribution to our life-changing work.
A significant gift to Practical Action will support our work with communities to forge their own futures with solutions that foster resilience, create jobs and lasting prosperity.
We would love to hear from you. Please get in touch to discuss how you can support this work.
Philanthropy strengthens every part of what we do, from delivering programmes to sharing our learnings and expertise. It drives lasting change to the lives and livelihoods of some of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable communities.
Philanthropy enables us to unlock additional funding and investment from governments and institutions. It gives us the confidence and stability to plan ahead, and the freedom and agility to respond quickly when the unexpected happens.
With Overseas Development Aid commitments in decline, philanthropic giving is more important than ever.
Having supported Practical Action for over 20 years, I have always been impressed with its community-led approach, commitment to influencing and scaling up for even greater impact. The detailed reporting I receive convinces me that the money is spent wisely.
Sara Emanuel – Trustee of The Jusaca Charitable Trust
Our Big Change Network is made up of generous supporters – individuals, trusts, foundations, and companies – whose annual unrestricted gifts of £5,000 or more make a substantial contribution to our work and future sustainability.
Our supporters enjoy a special relationship with us and feel close to the work that inspires them to give, which includes hearing from our global senior leadership and staff delivering our work through our exclusive Big Change Network events.
Getting up close to the projects and hearing from key stakeholders is always a powerful reminder of how thoughtful, low-cost, community-led solutions can have a long-term positive impact. Become part of a network of changemakers!
Rosie Bichard
Donations of £25,000 or more to our Catalyst Fund allow us to scope, test, learn, and iterate new and emerging solutions to a problem.
This builds the credible evidence needed to plan new work and leverage additional private and public investment to take proven solutions to a new level, for even greater social impact.
Contact a member of our team today about becoming a catalyst for change.
Llama Travel has supported Practical Action’s work in Peru for almost 20 years, and I am impressed by the way they’ve helped people in local communities to develop appropriate solutions that have had a long-term impact on their lives.
Luca Newbold, Director at Llama Travel
We have a range of priority projects that we are actively fundraising for.
Please get in touch and we’ll be delighted to help align your personal interests and philanthropic goals with our work.
Get in touchWhether you prefer to donate cash, give via CAF, a Donor Advised Fund, shares, or a company matched giving scheme, we will maximise the impact of your giving.
If you are a UK tax payer and you’ve completed a declaration, we can claim Gift Aid on your donation, meaning we get an extra 25% for basic rate tax payers. If you pay a higher rate of income tax (40% or more), you could be entitled to a tax rebate on your donation.
You can also find out more about leaving a gift in your Will here. Legacies provide vital long-term income, so we can work with communities long into the future with the confidence that we can see things through.
However you choose to donate, we’ll ensure it has maximum impact. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss ways to donate.
We build close, long-term relationships, providing you with a truly personalised experience.
We have a range of opportunities to maximise the impact of your philanthropic giving so that together, we can create a world that works better for everyone.
We’d love to talk to you about them – please get in touch!
Cathy Smith – Philanthropy and Partnership Lead
Email: [email protected]
Tel: +44 (0)1926 634425