Donating from the UK

The Life You Can Save makes smart giving simple. Our mission is to help change the culture of giving in affluent countries and increase donations to nonprofits that dramatically improve the lives of people in extreme poverty. We curate the most impactful, cost-effective charities in the world and make it easy to donate to them. 

In the near future, we hope to be a registered charity in the UK. In the meantime, we have listed on this page all the donation options where you and the charity can benefit from Gift Aid.


Our Team in the UK

Charlie Bresler

Executive Director charlie@thelifeyoucansave.org

Rickard Vikstrom

Consultant and Board Member (Australia) rickard@thelifeyoucansave.org

Private: Mary Waite

Director of Partnerships mary.waite@thelifeyoucansave.org

Donate directly to a UK-registered charity

Gift Aid is a simple way to increase the value of your gift to a charity—at no extra cost to you. If you pay tax in the UK, the charity can reclaim the basic rate tax (25%) on your gift. So, if you donate £100, it is worth £125 to the charity. When you donate directly to a UK-registered charity, that charity can secure the full benefit of Gift Aid.

Against Malaria Foundation 

100% of donations buy long-lasting insecticidal nets that protect people from malaria. A US$2 net protects two people.

Donate from UK 

The Fred Hollows Foundation

The Fred Hollows Foundation has restored sight to 2M+ people and aims to end avoidable blindness through low-cost eye surgery, doctor training, and community education. The Fred Hollows Foundation is a registered charity in the UK and can accept cheque, direct debit, grants, institutional funding or large one-off donations. Please contact The Fred Hollows Foundation for more information.

GiveDirectly

GiveDirectly provides cash—no strings attached—to some of the poorest families in the world. 

Donate from UK

Malaria Consortium

Malaria Consortium’s seasonal malaria chemoprevention program protects young children in Africa’s Sahel region from contracting and possibly dying from malaria

Donate from UK 

Oxfam

Oxfam works to sustainably improve lives through advocacy, disaster relief, education, health, sanitation and women’s rights.

Donate from UK 

Schistosomiasis Control Initiative (SCI)

SCI facilitates school-based distributions of deworming tablets, protecting children from debilitating diseases and improving school attendance for less than US$0.50 per child.

Donate from UK 


Donate via The Life You Can Save’s Prism Funds

We have partnered with UK charity Prism The Gift Fund to enable you to boost your donation through Gift Aid when choosing to donate to The Life You Can Save’s Charities Fund, to some of our recommended nonprofits individually, and to The Life You Can Save’s Operations Fund.  With all the options below, you can claim Gift Aid and 100% of your donation will be used to support our recommended charities.

The Life You Can Save’s All Charities Appeal Fund

Donate to all The Life You Can Save’s Recommended Charities. Funds raised through the appeal are currently evenly distributed between The Life You Can Save’s recommended charities. To ensure funds are used effectively, The Life You Can Save retains the right to vary the proportional split of funds between our recommended charities in the future.  

Donate to our All Charities Fund from the UK 

Fistula Foundation

Fistula Foundation is the global leader in treating obstetric fistula, a devastating childbirth injury that leaves women incontinent, humiliated, and often shunned by their communities. 

Donate to Fistula Foundation from the UK

Innovations for Poverty Action (IPA)

Innovations for Poverty Action is a research and policy nonprofit that discovers and promotes effective solutions to global poverty problems.

Donate to IPA from the UK

Seva

Seva is a global nonprofit eye care organization that transforms lives and strengthens communities by restoring sight and preventing blindness. 

Donate to Seva from the UK

Village Enterprise

Village Enterprise identifies the extreme poor in Kenya and Uganda and delivers a four part program to build small businesses: entrepreneurship training, a cash grant, business mentoring, and a savings group. There is strong evidence that this leads to a significant and sustained increase in income.

Donate to Village Enterprise from the UK

The Life You Can Save’s Operation Fund

The Life You Can Save relies on voluntary contributions to spread Peter Singer’s ideas on giving effectively and thus reduce poverty and unnecessary suffering. 

Donate to TLYCS’s Operations Fund from the UK 


Donate via the EA Funds

EffectiveAltruism.org is part of the effective altruism community, a global movement of people using reason and evidence to do the most good they can. EffectiveAltruism.org is administered by the Centre for Effective Altruism, a 501(c)(3) tax-exempt organization in the US, and a registered charity in England and Wales. You can claim Gift Aid when donating via EA Funds.

Through EA Funds, you can—after setting up a profile—donate to four of The Life You Can Save’s recommended charities:

  • Development Media International

  • Evidence Action

  • Iodine Global Network

  • Project Healthy Children


What is Gift Aid?

Gift Aid is a simple way to increase the value of your gift—at no extra cost to you. If you pay tax in the UK, registered charities can reclaim the basic rate tax (25%) on your gift. So if you donate £100, it is worth £125 to the charity.


Corporate Partnerships and Giving

Limited companies can pay less corporation tax when they donate to a UK charity. A number of UK companies have already used The Life You Can Save UK to donate to our (non-UK) recommended charities to take advantage of this deduction. For more information about partnerships and corporate giving in the UK, please email us: partnerships@thelifeyoucansave.org


About Prism The Gift Fund

The Life You Can Save has partnered with Prism The Gift Fund to create The Life You Can Save UK (a collective fund of Prism). Prism is a UK registered charity (1099682) whose aim is to increase the flow of funds into the charitable sector from UK donors through effective administration. Prism as a registered charity is able to claim Gift Aid (25%) on our behalf and charge a small fee for their services, all of which goes into the running of their charity. 

This arrangement provides The Life You Can Save with a more cost-effective model than setting up our own UK charity at this point in time. If you have any questions about The Life You Can Save UK or Prism, please contact us at info@thelifeyoucansave.org