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Concern Worldwide (UK)’s work tackling extreme poverty among some of the world’s poorest communities would be impossible without the compassion and generosity of our supporters. We are committed to being fully accountable to you in how we maximise the impact of your donations.
In 2023, Concern supported more than 30 million people in 26 of the world’s poorest and most vulnerable countries, and responded to 66 emergencies in 20 countries.
Almost 82 pence in every pound donated goes towards our emergency response and long-term development programmes, working together with people living in the most difficult situations to bring about lasting change to lives, livelihoods and communities.
Programme effectiveness and transparency
We aim to achieve the highest standards of effectiveness and transparency across all our programmes and measure this against a number of internationally recognised codes and standards. For example:
- Concern has been fully certified against the Core Humanitarian Standard on Quality and Accountability, which sets out nine commitments for humanitarian organisations to measure and improve the effectiveness of their programmes.
- We adhere to the Code of Conduct for the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Movement and NGOs in Disaster Relief, which seeks to maintain high standards of behaviour among aid agencies providing disaster relief.
- We also publish full details of all relevant UK funding to the IATI (International Aid Transparency Initiative) standard. This is a global initiative to improve the transparency of development and humanitarian programmes and their results.
You can find out more about the standards we adhere to here and our Supporter Promise, which sets out the standards we adhere to in how we fundraise.
If you'd like to know more about how and where our money is spent, you can read our latest annual report.
Highest accountability standards
In our work, we're dedicated to following the best charity codes and policies, from how we deal with emergencies to how we fundraise. We believe that charities have to be accountable, transparent and effective.
Charities SORP
Our accounts are prepared annually in accordance with the Charities SORP (Statement of Recommended Practice) standard of accountability and transparency.
Core Humanitarian Standard
Transforming lives
Concern Worldwide has been helping to transform lives of the world's poorest people since 1968. We won’t stop until poverty does.
How money is spent
How your donation is used
81.9%
Overseas programmes
Almost 82 pence in every pound donated goes towards our emergency response and long-term development programmes, working together with people living in the most difficult situations to bring about lasting change to lives, livelihoods and communities.
14.2%
Fundraising
This is money we spend to raise more funds for our overseas work.
3.5%
Policy, advocacy and campaigns
We invest money to campaign, lobby governments, run petitions and put pressure on decision-makers to tackle the underlying causes of extreme poverty and push for change.
0.4%
Governance
These are funds we spend to ensure that Concern is compliant and adheres to the highest standards.
Do you have a question about how our money is spent?
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