Welcome to the Generosity Report 2026 Resource Hub
The 2026 Generosity Report reveals a nuanced picture of Christian giving in the UK. While the average proportion of income given has declined marginally, the overall value of giving remains stable, suggesting that generosity is maturing rather than diminishing. Christians are prioritising regular, planned giving to trusted causes, reflecting a growing emphasis on stewardship, accountability and measurable impact.
Trust has proven to be a critical factor shaping these patterns. The research highlights a direct correlation between perceived trustworthiness and sustained generosity, particularly for churches and Christian charities. Regular teaching, transparent governance and consistent communication are key drivers of this trust – and therefore of long-term giving behaviour.
The data and stories together point to a hopeful future. Younger generations are eager to learn and be prompted; older generations continue to model faithful, lifelong giving. Committed Christians continue to give most consistently and sacrificially, while the faith practices that underpin their generosity – Bible reading, prayer and community connection – remain essential catalysts for all. Across every age and background, there remains a shared conviction that generosity is both an act of worship and a witness to God’s goodness.
We've compiled a list of helpful resources to help you respond to this year's findings that reinforce a clear message: cultivating trust and embedding generosity within discipleship are the twin levers for sustaining and growing Christian giving.
- for church and charity leaders
- for Christian workers
- for donors
Helpful resources
For church and charity leaders
The Stewardship Partner Account for Churches and Charities can help you to invite generosity and increase your support base, so that you feel equipped and encouraged to grow your vision and further your missional impact.
Explore our training and events opportunities, which include our Lunchtime Dial-In sessions for anyone involved in the financial stewardship of a church or charity. The free Stewardship health check tool enables church and charity leaders to work through all the key functional areas, diagnosing and suggesting actions for improvement as needed.
We also offer a range of professional services for churches and charities.
Explore our library of online resources on all aspects of biblical generosity. We’ve shared a starter list below:
Raising the standard: transforming the culture of money in the church
Good financial management helps churches avoid dangers
How to communicate financial information to your church or Christian charity (stewardship.org.uk).
How to make a successful appeal for churches and charities (updated for Charities Act 2022)
Bible economics series:, Part 1: Checking our temperature
Part 2: Patterns of right relationship
Part 3: Thoughts from a Christian financial adviser
We also recommend this free resource:
Foundation Truths on Money and Possessions
Subscribe to Sharpen, our quarterly emails for trustees, treasurers and Church and Charity Leaders. Where we provide practical tools, technical resources and expert guidance to safeguard your mission and ministry.
For Christian workers
Sign up for The Stewardship Partner Account for Individuals which will help you organise, receive and increase your financial support.
If you support raise with us, register for our Support Raising training and subsequent Support Raising Surgeries, which will help you to see support raising as about Gospel partnership, rather than as just a financial transaction.
Our training is based on the workbook Personal Support Matters which is the revised version of Funding the Family Business by Claire Niclasen and Myles Wilson, published by Stewardship. Personal Support Matters is available to all who raise support to help enable them to do it effectively.
Subscribe to Mission, our bi-monthly email for Christian workers with encouragement, practical tools and training opportunities to strengthen you in your support raising journey.
For donors
The Stewardship Giving Account can help you discover the joy of active generosity. It is trusted by over 30,000 Christians who give to the causes they love with Stewardship.
For donors giving more than £25,000 a year, we offer the Donor Advised Fund account, and for those wanting to establish a fund of £500,000 or more, we offer the Philanthropy Fund account.
Explore our CauseFinder™ database to discover a range of charities working in the areas that you care about most. All causes listed with us have been checked and verified by us.
On our website we have a range of blogs and stories that offer inspiration on biblical stewardship, generosity and giving. Some of our most popular blogs focus on topics such as ‘Should I sell everything and give to the poor?’ and ‘Jesus the Good Steward’. We also have some deeply encouraging personal stories of giving, like this one from an anonymous DAF donor who shares their journey of faithful stewardship.
Stewardship’s Giving Reflections Guide helps you create time and space to explore what generosity means to you and how you would like to shape your giving journey.
We also have a wide collection of devotional guides and practical resources to help you think more deeply about what it means to be generous and prioritise your giving including:
Guide to Giving for Married Couples
Subscribe to Generous, our monthly email for supporters with inspiration, practical tools and guidance to support the causes you love in more meaningful ways.
For our philanthropists, we offer Impact, our quarterly email with news, inspiration and guidance to support you on your giving journey.
Sign up to our podcast, Active Generosity, and each month you’ll hear from a Stewardship donor, partner or colleague about their journey of generosity, exploring why and how they give, the joys and challenges they’ve experienced along the way and what a difference generosity makes to their lives.
Join over 50,000 people who are spreading the love of Jesus through 40 days of intentional generosity by taking up the 40acts generosity challenge. Sign up to receive a daily email throughout Lent with a reflection from a partner and a challenge to carry out an act of generosity. This year, for the first time, you can engage and track thechallenge in the Stewardship Giving App.
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Lyndall McCarthy
Lyn loves working in a team that has a common vision towards transformational change in Jesus’ name. Shaping a joyful customer experience to achieve this is what drives her.
Previously Lyn worked for Habitat for Humanity South Africa as a Communications Specialist. Working for a humanitarian organisation opened her eyes to the sense that we’re part of a greater global community – and that we each have a role to play towards building its’ strength, stability and self-reliance.
Having immigrated to the UK from South Africa, Lyn and her husband and two young children are enjoying exploring the local countryside and hedgehog-spotting!
