Comprehensive
With our expertise in the charitable sector, we can provide the detailed research you need to make a decision
Insightful
Measure tangible impact on a macro and micro scale to give you confidence in your decision-making and planning
Strategic
Using our networks and data-driven insights, we can help you focus future resources and maximise your potential for impact
Research Services
For Donor Advised Fund clients and Philanthropy Fund clients
You may be deliberating over which charities to give to in your local area and beyond, or be feeling overwhelmed by the incredible breadth of ministries engaging with causes important to you. Perhaps you simply want to see what choices you have, but don’t have the time to look into them yourself.
At Stewardship, it’s our desire to see joyful, informed and impactful generosity and it’s our mission to facilitate this for our donors.
As a Philanthropy Services client, you can benefit from our bespoke research service, offering three levels of research and reporting on charities and church ministries.
Level one
You can expect a concise report consolidating the information already available across the public domain. The document will give you a spread of active charities and ministries, sorted by location or cause – depending on what you want to know. Level one research is Included within the Philanthropy Fund and Donor Advised Fund fee.
Level two
If you need a little more information, our team can delve further into the detail. We can speak to a range of different charities and ministries, engaging with them to build a clear picture of their set-up, emerging initiatives and current funding gaps. Level two research can be carried out at an additional fee of £200 to £500 per organisation.
Level three
We are proud to partner with Eido Research, providing a thorough, robust and Kingdom-focused level of impact evaluation. This is an option for most grants, although we recommend it for all grants over £250,000. Level three research offers a bespoke service, please contact our team for more information.
Stewardship took the time to get to know our grant making criteria and the types of causes we were most interested in supporting. As a result they were able to bring charities to our attention that we didn’t already know about and help with the due diligence needed before any grant decisions could be made.
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Stewardship provides a useful bridge between us and the charity, where we can choose the level of interaction we have with the charity. In some cases, the Research Services have been used to enable us get to know a charity discretely.
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Our partner
To help measure and improve the impact of your giving, we are delighted to partner with Eido Research. Eido is a team of impact researchers who specialise in working with Christian organisations. Their research will shed light on the impact of your giving, enabling you to have confidence in its effectiveness today and guide your decision-making tomorrow. Not only will their input strengthen your own giving but you will also play a part in building a base of knowledge that will enable the Christian sector to maximise the value it adds to society.
Start your journey with us
For some, it's a desire to bring about change to our local and global communities. For others, it's a response to God's generosity. Whatever your goal, our first step together is to arrange an initial consultation or visit to discuss your philanthropic needs.
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Personal service
Personal one-to-one guidance on hand to make your giving impactful and tax effective
Hassle-free
Let us take the burden of governance and administration
Flexibility
Add to your balance by card, bank transfer, Direct Debit or shares
Safe space
We facilitate thoughtful discussion around your philanthropic vision
Research
Bespoke research into causes you love and those you’d like to know more about
Peace of mind
Benefit from the wisdom of a board without the burdens of setting up a trust
Innovative
If you have got an innovative idea for supporting a charity with a loan or other investment from your account balance, our specialist team can work with you to make this happen
Missional
Your charitable funds have the potential to go further, strengthening the impact of the ministries and causes you choose to support
Impactful
Experience the joy of giving, with lasting impact for the causes you love
Let your legacy live on
Continue supporting the causes you care about or pass on the joy of giving to a successor
Simplify your administration
Easily manage all your charitable distributions and your successors with a single, flexible Expression of Wishes, which you can amend at any time, free of charge
Maximise your tax-efficiency
Your legacy to Stewardship is exempt from Inheritance Tax, boosting its impact. If you leave at least 10% to charity, your other beneficiaries can benefit from a reduced rate of Inheritance Tax
Global giving
Give across a network spanning 85 countries using TrustBridge Global
Integrated
Manage all of your cross-border giving in one place
Collaborative
Join with hundreds of other donors to get resource where it is most needed
Comprehensive
With our expertise in the charitable sector, we can provide the detailed research you need to make a decision
Insightful
Measure tangible impact on a macro and micro scale to give you confidence in your decision-making and planning
Strategic
Using our networks and data-driven insights, we can help you focus future resources and maximise your potential for impact