Product Updates
Keep up to date with the latest changes and improvements to our digital product
All Giving Accounts: Easily give again
11 December 2025
When you are viewing one of your regular gifts to a partner on the Regular Giving screen, you can now also make a one-off gift to them if you'd like to supplement your regular giving. Just click the new “Make a new gift” button and see how easy spontaneous generosity has just become!
Charity Partner Accounts: New user roles
10 December 2025
In conversation with our users, we discovered that churches and charities often have staff and co-workers operating outside of their Stewardship account to manage different aspects of their fundraising activity, such as a treasurer, brand-manager or supporter-liaison. In many instances, it would not be appropriate for these kind of roles to operate within the organisation's Stewardship account with access to the sensitive personal and financial information found there.
Until now, there has been no means to restrict the visibility and access that secondary users have in the partner account, so these team members have continued to operate outside of the account. This has become an incohesive way to work, leading to many primary users taking on these tasks themselves within the account, rather than being able to share them with others.
To solve this problem, we have now created new Partner Account roles with restricted permissions! This change enables primary users to now invite other people into their Stewardship account while controlling their access privileges, meaning they can build a team that can operate together seamlessly from one place.
Please read this Help & Support article to find out more about these new roles and how to assign them to new and existing users. Who could you invite to help you in your account?
Stewardship Giving App: Release to the Google Play Store
2 December 2025
Our Stewardship Giving App is now live in the Google Play Store!
The first version of the app was released last year in the Apple Store, but we've now launched an improved version suitable for both Apple and Android devices.
The features include:
- Top-up and Give
- Manage your regular giving
- View Partner Profiles, including a summary of your giving to that Partner
- View your transactions with the option to filter by Partner, date and transaction type
- See your total Gift Aid claims with Stewardship by tax year
- Switch between your Giving Accounts if you have more than one
If you are an android user: download the app from the Google Play Store.
If you are an iOS user: download the app from the Apple Store.
We will continue to update the app with more features on the way in the new year, so watch this space!
All Accounts: Bug fixes and background improvements
12 November 2025
Over the past month we have been fixing small bugs and improving things in the background that aren’t working as smoothly as they could. This will make our digital spaces more efficient and will make it easier to add new features in future.
Partner Accounts: Partner terms and improved search
15 October 2025
New users on Partner Accounts can now sign our Partner Terms and Conditions online here as they set up their sign in details. This change also means that if we update our Terms and Conditions in the future, users will be able to review and sign them as they sign in to their account.
We also updated our partner search so that it will still return relevant results when givers make a spelling mistake, for example “chruch” instead of “church”.
All Accounts: Forgotten password and equitable search
3 October 2025
Forgotten password
If you forget your password for your Stewardship account, you can reset it using the “Forgot your password?” button on the sign in screen. We have now reviewed and improved this experience with clearer instructions and simpler layouts.
Equitable search
When you search for our partners with our new Cause Category or Location filters, the partners shown in the search results listing may be equally relevant to your search. For fairness, we shuffle the equally relevant results so that their order is always random. This will give all our partner churches, charities and individuals an equal chance to be discovered by givers.
Partner Account: Save change jumps to incorrect fields
17 September 2025
There are a number of changes that you can make in your Partner Account, like adding images and text to your Profile Page, adding a new user, changing your email address or updating your social media details. When making these changes, it's possible to get small details wrong or inadvertently overlook fields, and previously our system would not have picked these up.
Now, when you try to save your changes with certain errors present, we will move the screen to the offending field to alert you than it needs to be fixed.
Giving Account Search: Suggested results and CauseFinder
3 September 2025
Improved search has now come to the Giving Account. Thanks to our improved keyword recognition, you are now prompted with relevant suggested results as you type. From your dashboard, just click “Give” and begin searching for a Partner to support.
While you're there, if you would like to discover new partners to support, you can browse using our 'CauseFinder' filters on the main website. From the 'Give' page in your account, click the new 'Search with CauseFinder' button at the bottom of the page. This will take you to the CauseFinder page where you can browse partners by selecting causes - categories that denote a partner's area of work.
Website Search: Filters, suggestions, better results
26 August 2025
We have improved the search functionality on our website to provide you with more relevant results, search suggestions and filtering to better direct your search and discovery. These changes enable you to find Partners, Fundraisers and our blog articles.
When browsing your search results on our new search listing page, you can now filter through our charitable causes by:
- Location - using postcode, town, city or county;
- Partner type - selecting church, charity or individual
- 'Cause category' e.g. Global Mission, Local Church, etc.
With our improved search, you can now discover new causes to support, in a location of interest, doing work that’s important to you.
All Accounts: Last sign in & Partner operating location
6 August 2025
To help you maintain the security of your Stewardship Account, we have added the date and time you last signed in at the bottom of your Account dashboard. If you have more than one account, this will also appear at the bottom of your account select screen. You can see this Help and Support article for more details. Please be aware, the time shown is in UTC so it will appear an hour behind during British Summer Time.
Also, we will soon be releasing a new way to search for Partners, which includes searching by location, such as Yorkshire; Bristol; Portnahaven. To support this we have added new 'Operating location' fields in the Partner Account, where Partners can add the location of their charitable work. These fields can be found in the 'Key info' tab in the Profile section of the account.
We have also fixed some small bugs. For example, if Partners have not uploaded a logo then our default logo will show for them everywhere. There were some instances where a grey circle was showing instead of our logo, but this has now been rectified.
Giving Account: Small improvements when giving
9 July 2025
We’ve made three small improvements for when you give with Stewardship:
- On your Giving Account dashboard, when you consider topping-up your account you can see your total balance next to the piggybank icon. Previously this icon could not be clicked, but now, if you click this icon or anywhere in the panel, you will be taken straight to your Top-up screen so you can top-up your balance.
- When you give to a Christian Worker, previously you would see their ministry name followed by their personal name; for example, “Women’s ministry – Sarah Beckett”. We have now switched the order of these two, so you will see the personal name first, making them easier to identify.
- When we explain the breakdown of a financial gift, we always conclude with the total amount that the Partner will receive from Stewardship. This final figure used to be called “Total gift”, but customers didn’t always understand this, so we now use the phrase “Partner receives”.
All Accounts: User and Profile fields
11 June 2025
On all accounts we've made the user 'Title' field optional:
- When you create a new user for a Giving Account or a Partner Account, previously you had to enter a title for their name (e.g. Mr, Mrs, Sister) to complete the user setup. Now, you can leave the title field blank if you prefer.
For Partner Accounts, within your profile we have introduced a new field for you to describe your profile:
- When users of our website search for partners, these short profile descriptions will appear in initial search results in our new and improved search screens, coming soon.
- You can populate and edit this description field in the Profile > Key Info section of your account, improving the findability of your profile when our new search is launched.
Partner Page Giving: Sign-In option
Improvements
29 May 2025
We have improved the process for making a gift to a partner from their partner page on our website. Now, when you choose to "Sign in" while making your gift, you will be taken to your giving account to complete the transaction.
Why have we made this change?
- Better Transparency: in your giving account, you can see exactly how much the partner will receive.
- Flexible Giving Options: You can make regular gifts from your balance, which wasn't possible on our partner page giving screens.
Also, we've fixed a small bug for our partner customers:
- YouTube Shorts Issue Resolved: previously, users encountered an error when trying to add YouTube Shorts URLs to their profile pages. This issue has now been resolved, and YouTube Shorts will display correctly.
All Accounts: Creating an account and choosing sign in details
Improvements
14 May 2025
Many of our customers have more than one account with Stewardship. To make it easy to find and manage your different accounts, you can use the same sign in details to access all of your accounts online.
- To set this up, every time you access a new Stewardship account you can choose to use your existing sign in details for that account.
- We have now redesigned the screens for creating a new account online. These new screens make it easier to discover if you already have Stewardship sign in details; and, if you'd like, to use these existing details with your new account.
- Similarly, we have redesigned the process for choosing sign in details when you have been added as a new user to a Giving or Partner Account. There are now fewer screens in this process so you can get into the account more quickly. We have also made it easier to use your existing sign in details to access the account.
Small bug fix:
- The Stewardship home screen has a handy search bar where you can search for charitable Partners to support. The initial search results include a profile picture or logo image for the Partner. If the Partner hasn't chosen an image, we show a default heart image. This default image wasn't showing correctly before, but now we have fixed it.
Partner Accounts: Overview Screen and Statements
Minor Improvements
16 April 2025
- On the Giving Account dashboard we show you your monthly gift totals. We had inadvertently included annual, biannual and quarterly gifts from balance in this amount, but now the monthly gifts figure correctly includes only monthly gifts.
- If you have a Giving Account for an organisation (e.g. a charity or a company), we will now show the name of that organisation on your downloaded statements. Previously on these statements, we only showed the name of the primary user on your account.
- Stewardship is registered with the Fundraising Regulator. In the footer of our online pages you can find our Fundraising Regulator badge, and if you click this badge it will take you to Stewardship's entry on the Fundraising Regulator's online directory. This link was broken, but we have now fixed it.
Partner Accounts: Content editing bug fixes
02 April 2025
Minor improvements for content editing and upload:
- In page content, we've removed unsupported fonts and formatting from some text blocks, occasionally preventing users from saving changes.
- When you experience errors saving changes, you will now be presented with the correct error messages and troubleshooting advice.
- Image sizes larger than 3mb are not supported by our system, but it had been possible to upload .gif files over 3mb. Now, our system successfully prevents upload of any file it does not support.
Coming soon:
We are improving the online process for signing up and creating new sign in details. This is a big project, but we hope to release the updates by June.
Partner Accounts:
Improvements and Fixes
19 March 2025
- Fix for a bug that had caused a handful of Partners to receive duplicate Grant Payments Out
- The menu bar on the Partner Account now scrolls when you are on a smaller computer screen, so all menu buttons are easily accessible
All accounts:
General maintenance
19 February 2025
- Fix for a bug that was hiding Partner Profile pages when the user changed other unrelated account settings
- Fix for a rare bug that stopped users from editing expired Fundraising pages
- Slight change to how we calculate the "Boosted with Gift Aid" figure for Direct Debit monthly gifts on the Giving Account dashboard. "Boosted with Gift Aid" now shows the exact amount that will be received by your partners from your monthly Direct Debit giving, even if you use a combination of Gift Aid and Non-Gift Aid Direct Debit giving
All accounts:
Cookie preferences & sign in
24 January 2025
- You can now change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the new link in the footer of your online account
- Bugs appearing in account creation and sign in with Google or Apple have been fixed
All accounts:
General fixes and improvements
16 January 2025
- Several fixes for bugs and inconsistencies in the process for giving through an online page (including Partner Pages, Fundraising pages, and donation links), as well as in Partner Account
- When creating a new account while making a gift from an online page, users will now automatically be signed in
- Increased clickable functionality achieved on the Giving Account dashboard
Stewardship Giving App:
Release to Apple Store
18 December 2024
Our Stewardship Giving App for Giving Account donors is live in the App Store! Over the past 24 months, we’ve been in testing with 250 givers, exploring how to best serve their giving needs with improved user journeys and vibrant, intuitive design. As we continue development for Android, we’re celebrating a significant step towards delivering our vision of a thriving Kingdom economy.
If you're an iOS user, you can now download the iOS Giving App.
If you're an Android user, and feeling a bit left out, you can sign up for the Android app waitlist.
All accounts:
Add user screens & current balance calculations
17 December 2024
- We updated the Add user success screen for the Giving Account, to make the codeword and how to share it clearer. This is the same change that we made for the Partner Account in the previous release.
- We have changed how the current balance is calculated, to make sure we include all pending transactions when we show running totals and opening and closing balances in statements
Giving Accounts: Improved link bank account
Partner Accounts: Improved add user & fixing images
9 December 2024
Giving Account updates:
- The process for linking a bank account now has a new design to help make it clearer which type of bank account you should use
- We have also fixed a small issue on sign in relating to our Terms and Conditions screen, and a small issue with making a gift from a Partner Page with Google or Apple Pay
Partner Account updates:
- We have redesigned the Add user success screen to make it clearer that you should share the on-screen codeword with the new user
- We have made some improvements to the Grants Received letter so that you cannot accidentally generate a letter for a future date
- We fixed an issue with making a gift from a Partner Page as a signed-in Stewardship Partner, and we also fixed a few issues with uploading and cropping images on Key Info, Partner Profile, and Fundraising screens
All accounts: View password
Giving Account: Simpler regular gift dates
27 November 2024
We have improved our Sign in screens
If you are using your email and a password to sign in to your account, or if you are creating a new password, you can now use a toggle to reveal the password and check that you are typing it correctly. Only do this if you are sure that your password can’t be seen by anyone around you.
We have also simplified transaction dates for givers
We have removed the option to choose the dates 29, 30, or 31 when creating monthly Top-ups and gifts. Previously, if a giver had chosen one of these dates for their giving, but the month didn’t have a 29th, 30th or 31st day, the transaction had to be made on a different day. We are removing these dates so that givers can always be clear about when payments will be taken, and so that our Partner charities have consistency on when they receive regular gifts. If you have existing regular payments in on these dates, we will be soon change these to the 1st. If this change applies to you, we will be in touch shortly.
We have fixed the following issues:
- Non-UK customers were sometimes unable to add new users to their account
- Our link to set up new Sign in details was often erroring
- A validation message on our new Sign in details Code word screen wasn’t working
- We have also changed the wording on all our error screens to make them clearer
Making giving clearer
13 November 2024
We heard from our givers that the way we used the words “Top-up” and “Gift” was confusing, particularly when you were trying to manage your regular giving. We have now tweaked how we use these words and how we display your regular giving in your account.
Changes include:
- We have made changes to the Giving Account Dashboard, the Regular Giving screen, and the Top-up screen to reflect the new way we use these words.
- We have added some extra information to the Dashboard and to screens for creating and editing regular gifts and top-ups so that you can easily see the total amount that will be debited from your bank account by Stewardship each month.
- You can change the date of your regular gifts from the Regular Giving screen.
- We also now show if you have a “pending” regular Top-up or Gift by Direct Debit. This means that your Direct Debit payment is being processed but it hasn’t happened yet. This should give you peace of mind that your regular Top-up to balance or regular Gift is on the way and will arrive on the date you requested.
In addition to this:
- We have made Apple Sign in smoother.
- We have fixed a bug with the giver PDF statement download.
- We have improved parts of the account design, like spacing and fonts.
Fixes and improvements for Partners
30 October 2024
We have improved the code behind the Partner Account dashboard screen, so this screen will now load faster.
We have also identified an error with uploading images on the Partner Account, and we have created a specific error message to help you know what’s gone wrong. We are still working on the bug fix.
Account sign in:
Apple ID
16 October 2024
As a Giver or a Partner, you can now choose to use Apple ID to sign in to your Stewardship Account. This option is available when creating a new account, or when adding yourself as a new user to an existing account. If you already have sign in details with an email and password, or with a Google account, and you would like to change to using your Apple ID, please contact your relevant Stewardship team, and they can help you reset your sign in details.
Individual Partners:
Grants Received Report
18 September 2024
As an Individual Partner, you can now download a formal PDF statement of the grants you have received from Stewardship from the Payments section of the Activity screen in your online account. This can be used to provide evidence of your income.
Giving, DAF and Philanthropy Fund Accounts:
5 September 2024
You can now download a PDF statement of your giving with Stewardship from your online account. To do this, simply go to the Activity screen, where you can view a report of your account activity. You can also select a specific date range and filter for certain types of transactions. Once you are happy with your selection, select Download Statement at the bottom of the report. This will generate a branded PDF statement containing the information showing on the activity screen, that you can use for your accounts and records.
Linked Worker Account
5 September 2024
We now have a new account type: Linked Worker Accounts. This account is for Christian workers who are employed by a charity, and who fundraise for that charity to help cover the cost of their salary.
The Linked Worker Account looks and feels the same as a normal Individual Partner Account. It is your own account, with your own Profile Page where you can raise support for your charitable work. You can log in online to update your details or Profile Page, access reports showing all your regular and one-off gifts, and find details about your team of Supporters.
The key differences with the Linked Worker Account are: all the gifts made to your account will be transferred to your linked charity’s Partner Account, and your linked charity will have full access to view and edit your account using their normal Stewardship login. This allows the charity to oversee and manage these accounts, while simultaneously allowing the Christian charitable worker complete visibility and control of their support raising.
For more information, see our Help and Support section for Linked Worker Accounts. If you would like to create a Linked Worker account, contact the Individual Partnerships Team at [email protected] .
Partner Accounts: New Look Partner Account
20 August 2024
This update includes three exciting changes:
- To help you showcase your work in a more compelling way that invites generosity, we have designed new tools to help you build a richer partner profile page. You can now add and arrange multiple text blocks, images, and videos on your page, along with a cover image, tagline, all your social media links and more. See our new profile page guidance for advice on using these new tools to share your vision and inspire new and existing supporters.
- You can now identify your cause areas with up to three of our Cause Categories, which will be visible to supporters on your profile page. For many Partner accounts, we have automatically chosen two Cause Categories for you. You can review and edit these in the ‘Profile’ tab of your Partner Account.
- We have redesigned the online Partner Account to make it easier for you to find your way around and to access all the information and options that you need. There are also other improvements and new features across the account. Highlights include detailed information about your Supporters, and new sorting and filtering in the Activity screen. There are too many updates to list here, so we suggest that you sign in and take a look for yourself! If you have any questions, visit our Help and Support pages or contact our Partner Accounts for Churches and Charities team.
Giving Platform: Google Pay fix
5 February 2024
Google and Apple Pay are available again to use for your giving
Giving Platform: Pre-selection for anonymous givers
25 January 2024
If you usually want to make gifts anonymously, you can now set this as the default for your Giving Account by contacting our Giving Services team. This won't affect any of your existing gifts, but "Do not share my contact details with the Partner" will be already ticked when you go to set up a new gift.
Giving Platform: Google Pay unavailable
22 December 2023
We're sorry to announce that we have had to temporarily disable Google Pay as a payment method on our platform. Our developers are working on a solution and a full fix will come in the new year. Apologies for any inconvenience in the meantime!
Giving & DAF Accounts: Improvements to 'Create gift' process
19 July 2023
We have made significant improvements to your Stewardship Giving, DAF, or Philanthropy Account.
In the 'Create gift' process, users can now:
- Toggle Gift Aid on/off on a gift-by-gift basis
- Clearly view what the Partner they're supporting will receive and adjust the gift amount if desired
- Give one-off using Apple Pay or Google Pay
Partner Accounts: Suggested gift amounts
16 May 2023
To help inspire and enable more generosity to your charitable cause, our giving platform will now include suggested gift amounts for all Partner Account users.
For users of the Partner Account for Churches and Charities, you can also set custom gift suggestions with related impact statements to showcase more of how your supporters' generosity makes a difference to your work. Check out our Help & Support article for step-by-step guidance on how to set custom amounts.
Giving Platform: Apple Pay & Google Pay
4 April 2023
Giving with Stewardship is now even easier! You can now use Apple Pay and Google Pay as payment methods for one-off gifts made from www.stewardship.org.uk.
Giving Platform: Refreshed process
Part 1 - 14 December 2022
Part 2 - 28 February 2023
You've told us how important it is for giving with Stewardship to be as easy as possible - and we've listened! Now when you click 'give' from a partner profile page (or fundraising page) you enter a vastly improved process, making giving a whole lot easier.
Giving with Stewardship is now:
- Quicker. We’ve reduced the giving process to a few simple steps.
- Simpler. The refreshed design will ensure a clearer and more joyful giving experience.
- More engaging. Partner logos (where provided) will be visible throughout, to grow giver confidence and brand recognition.
Fundraising Pages: Character limit bug fix
26 January 2023
The character counter on fundraising page bios has now been fixed to ensure the counter is up-to-date whilst you edit your page.
Giving & DAF Account: New features
22 October 2022
In a Giving, DAF, or Philanthropy Account, users can now toggle Gift Aid on/off when you top-up. This means there is greater fee transparency for you, with clearer information throughout the top-up process.
Partner Account for Churches & Charities: Reports bug fix
22 October 2022
The ‘Payment Date’ field will no longer be duplicating the ‘Transaction Date’ field in your ‘Transactions’ report when downloaded.
All Accounts: Microsoft Azure
5 September 2022
All Giving and Partner Accounts are now being hosted by Microsoft Azure.
What this means for you and your account experience:
- Accelerated improvements – new product releases, improvements, features, and bug fixes will be released on a more frequent basis
- Less downtime – fewer service interruptions
- Future-ready – enhanced ability to develop our platform based on your valued product feedback