Most of us care about more than one cause. Legacy turns them into one giving portfolio: pick as many UK charities as you like, set one monthly budget, and split it between them with a single Direct Debit.
Giving should feel
Regular giving is how the UK gives: around 8.2 million people donate by Direct Debit or standing order in any given month, according to the CAF UK Giving Report 2025. But back five charities that way and you manage five relationships. A giving portfolio turns them into one.
You don't have to pick one cause over another. £20 a month can back cancer research, a local food bank and an animal rescue at once, each with its own share.
Move money between charities, add a new one, or pause a single charity without touching the rest. Your budget stays the same until you change it.
Switch Gift Aid on once. Charities Trust claims it on every eligible donation across your portfolio and passes it to each charity.
Charities get your donation, not your email or home address, unless you choose to share them. Fewer appeals, no guilt.
See what you give, to whom and when, with an impact tracker and a positive news feed from the charities you back.
Download one yearly summary of everything you gave. Higher-rate taxpayers can use it to claim back extra relief.
Search 13,000+ UK charities by cause or name and add as many as you like.
From £10 a month, taken on the day that suits you.
Give each charity an amount in pounds. Change the split, or pause any one charity, whenever you like.
Stripe collects one payment. Charities Trust pays each charity its share and claims the Gift Aid.
A portfolio isn't the only option in the UK. Here's how the main routes compare, so you can pick what fits.
Sign up on each charity's website and set up a separate Direct Debit with every one. Each is covered by the Direct Debit Guarantee.
Pay into an account with a provider such as the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), then ask it to send gifts to the charities you pick.
Give straight from your salary before tax, through a scheme your employer runs with an approved agency.
Sources, checked October 2026: GOV.UK on Gift Aid, GOV.UK on Payroll Giving, CAF Charity Account fees.
Comparing giving apps? See UK giving apps side by side, or read Legacy vs Stewardship.
A starter portfolio of six well-loved UK charities, one from each of the causes that matter most to UK donors: health, animals, disaster relief, housing, mental health, and later life.
Registered Charity: 1089464
It's the long game done well. Cancer Research UK funds the slow basic science most donors never see, and then helps it land in the hospital ward years later. We like backing patient money.
Registered Charity: 219099
Two centuries of frontline work and they still answer the phone. Backing the RSPCA means funding the urgent rescue and the slow policy work in the same breath, and we love a charity that does both.
Registered Charity: 220949
The same blue-and-red emblem turns up after a house fire in Hull as after an earthquake half a world away. Very few charities work at both ends of that scale, and the everyday work back home is what we find most quietly impressive.
Registered Charity: 263710
Shelter does the unglamorous legal work behind a tenancy that nobody else will. A free phone call can mean the difference between keeping your home and losing it, and that's a very direct thing to fund.
Registered Charity: 219830
Mind has done as much as anyone in this country to make it OK to say you're not OK. The information they put out is the kind we wish more charities took the time to write: clear, kind and based on what people actually need.
Registered Charity: 1128267
Age UK is the safety net so many older people quietly rely on, from a phone call to check in to help reading a letter. The work is broad and patient, and it's the kind of charity we'd want our own grandparents to have nearby.
One payment, six charities. Give once by card, or add them to your monthly portfolio in the app.
