We’ve put together some answers to the questions you ask us the most. Learn more about our work and how we manage your support.
Out of every £1 raised, we spend 94p on charitable activities and services and 6p on fundraising and support costs.
In 2025, we reached 21 million people in 54 countries across the world, providing:
You can find out more about how your donations are spent on our Where your donations go page.
Where your donations go
Action Against Hunger is a non-governmental organisation, which means that we manage and roll out all of our programmes ourselves. We have no affiliation with any of the governments in the countries where we work.
We often work alongside other organisations and delivery partners such as the World Food Programme, Unicef or the United Nations to make sure that we have the furthest reach and our work has the maximum impact.
Gift Aid is an easy way to boost your donation to charity. It allows us to reclaim the basic rate tax you pay as a UK taxpayer from HM Revenue and Customs.
For every £1 you donate, with Gift Aid, we can claim an extra 25p of tax at no extra cost to you. All we need is a one-off declaration.
You can let us know if you would like to Gift Aid by:
Setting up a regular gift is an incredible act of generosity, thank you.
There are three easy ways to set up a regular donation:
To cancel your regular gift just email us at [email protected] and let us know. You’ll then need to cancel the direct debit with your bank.
If you’re having trouble committing to a regular monthly gift, you can change the frequency of your donation to every six or twelve months. If you’d still prefer to cancel we’ll be sad to see you go but we understand it’s your decision.
There are lots of ways you can support Action Against Hunger, from taking part in a virtual event to getting active with a physical challenge.
Ways to get involved
In 2024, our Executive Director earned £130,756 including pension contributions.
You can find a full break down of our costs in our UK Annual Report and Financial Statements.
Discover how we use your donations on our Where your donations go page.
Where your donations go
It costs just £42 to save a child’s life, which is the cost of enough ready-to-use therapeutic food (RUTF) for six weeks of treatment. It includes an average of three packets of RUTF a day as well as monitoring and care from a healthcare professional.
Action Against Hunger is a global charity working in 54 countries around the world.
We have supported local partners who are offering cooked meals from community kitchens and who are running food pantries – a low cost and dignified way for families to shop for the food they need.
We endeavour to ensure our 40 years of expertise in treating and preventing life-threatening malnutrition, along with our precious resources donated by our supporters, are targeted where they can be most effective and where needs are greatest.
We send out mailings and emails to all of our valuable supporters several times a year to keep you updated on our work and our innovative projects.
You’re in control of what you receive and how you hear from us. You can choose to receive fewer communications if you would prefer, for example only our Winter Appeal, or perhaps just the supporter magazine twice a year.
You can contact our Supporter Care team at [email protected] or call us at 020 8853 7577 to update your communication preferences.
We work with two agencies that conduct private site fundraising activity on behalf of us and other charities: Zen Fundraising and YFR (Your Fundraising).
They are members of the Chartered Institute of Fundraising, the membership body for UK fundraising.
If you agreed to a regular gift after talking to a fundraiser at your door, you will receive a welcome call to confirm your details and that you are still happy to donate.
Shortly after this, you will receive a welcome pack in the post.
If you get a call from 0203 424 3005, it is a professional telephone fundraising agency working on behalf of Action Against Hunger. The telephone agency we work with is called DTV Optimise.
We’re committed to open and honest fundraising. If you have any concerns or would like to update your communication preferences, please contact our Supporter Care team at [email protected] or call us at 020 8853 7577.
Thanks to the generosity of our supporters, we’re able to support 20.2 million people around the world in 2025.
Our programmes included nutrition, emergency response, water, sanitation and hygiene and other life-saving services.
Learn how we use donations to assist communities across the world.
We’re committed to fundraising in an honest and transparent way while ensuring our supporters are treated with respect.
We couldn’t save the lives of malnourished children without our amazing supporters.
We don’t take your donation for granted, so this is our promise to you.
We tackle the causes and effects of hunger in vulnerable communities – no matter what the circumstances.
We continue to work with local partners and communities to come up with the best solutions to hunger together.
Explore what we stand for and how we turn our values into life-saving work.
If you have a question that's not answered on our FAQs page, our supporter care team is here to help. You can contact us by emailing [email protected].
