2024 was another record year in grants out to our church, charity and individual partners.
Grants out exceeded £100m for the second year running, with a total of £106m sent to our 12,000 church, charity and individual partners. The rate at which grants are being paid out to our partners also remains very strong at 57%¹, over twice the UK DAF average². Our total assets are £215m.
2024 was a seminal year with our new CEO Janie Oliver leading on the development of a new organisational design and strategy, which is focused on helping Christians grow in generosity as well as equipping and strengthening the many causes that they support.
"In my first full year as CEO of Stewardship, I have been deeply encouraged by the faithfulness of our donors and partners, the dedication of our staff team and, above all, God’s provision and guidance. Given the challenging economic environment in 2024, we are so grateful to have facilitated over £100m in grants out for the second year running, with £106m sent to our church, charity and individual partners. Going forwards, we remain focused on growing and developing our offering to our donors and partners as part of our mission to help Christians be the best stewards of their resources." Janie Oliver, CEO, Stewardship
Further highlights from our 2024 Annual Report:
- Loans to our church and charity partners grew by 20% to £34m
- Revenue for our finance and governance services to churches and charities increased by 14% to 1.4m
- Our Payroll Bureau Services’ monthly payments exceeded £7m for the first time
- Our Accounts Examination Service grew its client base by 9% year on year to a total of 500 church and charity clients
- We published our second Stewardship Generosity Report
- We launched our giving app for iOS for our Giving Account donors
Increase in investments aligned with Stewardship’s Christian values
As part of our commitment to prioritise investments that align with our Christian values, we made £11m of additional investments in Christian organisations and social impact initiatives that are aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals during the year, which increased the total allocation in these areas by 4% to 30% of total assets.
Growth in partners
We attracted 915 new church, charity and individual partners in 2024 and introduced a new look Partner Account to help our partners showcase their impact and invite support in a more compelling way. We continued to support Spring Harvest (run by Essential Christian) as their main giving partner over Easter and Christmas in 2024. We also partnered with Global Leadership Network for UK and Ireland for their Global Leadership Summits and with Soul Church Norwich for their Open Home conference for church leaders.
Generosity Report provides critical giving data for the Christian charity sector
Our second Generosity Report, which explores Christian giving in the UK, has already become a much-anticipated annual resource for the Christian charity sector. The report was based on a survey sample that was scaled up from just over 4,000 to just over 6,000 Christians. Work has now begun on the 2026 report.
Read our 2024 Annual Report
You can read our 2024 Annual Report as an interactive digital publication or you can download it as a pdf.
Watch the highlights
Hear from our CEO, Janie Oliver, as she shares some of the highlights from our 2024 Annual Report.
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¹ Stewardship uses The Foundation Center method to calculate its payout rate; each year's total amount of grants made from Stewardship is divided by the total amount of charitable assets (restricted funds) held at the end of the prior year. This method is also used by NPT in their UK DAF Report.
² The National Philanthropic Trust (NPT) UK’s DAF Report 2024
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Ruth Jackson
Ruth is leading the PR and Communications for Stewardship, which she joined in April 2022.
She has over 25 years’ marketing communications experience across a range of sectors, including higher education, technology and the arts, both business- and customer-facing.
Ruth worships and serves at C3 Church in Cambridge where she lives with her husband, two teenage daughters, a dog and a cat. When she’s not at her desk, you might find her rowing on the River Cam, in a ballet class or out for a walk.
She supports causes that are focused on alleviating global poverty and injustice, with a particular interest in supporting vulnerable children.
