We’ve designed a simple, yet transformative, movement built upon solidarity.
One World Together was born out of frustration with existing systems of charitable giving.
Despite the generosity of the UK public – who give £2 billion a year to development NGOs – most of this goes to the biggest charities, which are expensive to operate and operate through unequal partnerships. You can read more about that here.
This means that whether you are a small organisation working with communities in the UK or globally, it is incredibly hard to access the best form of funding that builds your organisational strength, stability and sustainability. The case for long-term, predictable and unrestricted funding has never been clearer.
Charities are trying to do better, but they’re working within deeply ingrained systems that are hard to change.
So we designed a new system, free of these costs and inequalities that accompany traditional forms of giving.
One World Together was born to answer a simple question:
Our model is designed around movement principles, recognising that a large number of committed supporters is more powerful than a few small donors. Even a small, but long-term, monthly donation of £1.25 can be pooled into large volumes of money that we can channel to our brilliant partners. We can take on more partners to benefit from this support as we grow.
Although our model keeps our own operational costs low (we’re not designing or ‘doing’ any projects, it’s our partners that are great at that!) we also need a financially-sustainable business model.
Otherwise we risk falling into the trap of traditional charitable models – investing large sums of money in fund-raising to constantly bring in new income. We think all of that money is better going directly to local organisations.
That’s why we keep a small proportion of your donations to support One World Together. This will be two monthly donations, though as these costs are covered as our membership grows, this will reduce so that more can reach our partners.
As a Community Interest Company, every single penny is reinvested into the community.
Our last priority is to build solidarity between our Global Citizens and our partners.