Donate now to support people affected by conflict and disasters around the world
With a gift today, you can help equip people with essential emergency aid items. Enabling them to survive. Helping them to rebuild. Thanks to the kindness of our supporters, we can assist people in places like Gaza, Lebanon, Yemen, Burkina Faso, Cameroon and many more. Thank you for caring.
These are examples of what your money could provide. Whatever you’re able to give, you’ll help to provide urgent shelter and essential items, wherever the need is greatest.
Not in the UK? No problem! Donate to ShelterBox in another country by choosing from the list of ShelterBox fundraising offices around the world.
Why support ShelterBox?
With over 20 years of experience, we are experts in emergency shelter after disaster. ShelterBox often works in places that others don’t, making sure that we reach families who need support to take the next step in resuming their livelihoods.
From Cameroon to Syria, all the way to the Philippines and the Caribbean, we have provided shelter to over 2.5 million people so far. And in these uncertain times, your support is more valuable than ever.
Thanks to your incredible support and the help of our partners worldwide, ShelterBox provided shelter to over 400,000 people in 2022.
We won’t stop until we see a world where no family goes without shelter after disaster. Will you help us?
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Frequently asked questions
For all your questions about who we are, the cost of our aid items and other general information please read our FAQs.
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How your money is spent
With the help of amazing supporters like you, we’re working hard to provide emergency shelter for vulnerable families around the world who have lost their homes after disaster.
Take a look at:
- How your support made a difference last year
- How we spend your money
- How we calculate our running costs
Donation FAQs
If you have any issues or questions about your donation, please call our Supporter Care team on +44 (0)300 0300 500 or send us a message.
You can donate via cheque, bank transfer, phone, PayPal, Just Giving and by Direct Debit.
To find out more information about all the ways you can make a donation, please take a look at our Donation FAQs.
When giving to ShelterBox you are contributing to a general donation fund.
This helps us to prepare for future disasters by positioning aid around the world and to react quickly when disasters do take place.
We use your support to choose exactly the right aid for each community after disaster strikes.
In order for us to prepare for future disasters by positioning aid around the world and to react quickly when disasters do take place, we are not usually able to accept time or location-specific donations.
By giving ShelterBox a general donation, you are helping us use your money to make the most difference to families in desperate need of shelter.
Around 71p of every pound raised is used to give families a place to call home after disaster. The remaining 29p is invested to raise future vital funds so we can help more families around the world in desperate need of emergency shelter.
We work this out in the same way as many charities in the UK, using financial results from the last three years to make sure events in any single year don’t have a distorting effect. Find out more about how we spend your money.
Gift Aid is a government initiative that enables us to increase your donation by 25% at no extra cost to you.
To register for Gift Aid or find out more please visit out Gift Aid page.
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