Stewardship alternative
Stewardship is a Christian charity that has helped people give since 1906, through giving accounts for churches, charities and Christian workers. Legacy is a non-profit giving app for backing any UK cause, with one monthly budget split across as many charities as you like.
Both send your money to good places at a similar cost. The real difference is who you want to give to and how you want to manage it. Here's an honest side by side.
Choose Stewardship if
Choose Legacy if
What each one offers individual donors in the UK, from their own websites.
Stewardship details from stewardship.org.uk, checked October 2026. Stewardship also offers company giving, donor-advised funds and gifts of shares, property and legacies, which Legacy doesn't.
A £20 monthly gift from a UK taxpayer, with Gift Aid, before any optional tip. The bar is out of £25, what the charity would get if nothing came off at all.
£20 plus £5 Gift Aid, less a 3.5% fee of 88p.
£19.25 after 3.75% third-party costs, plus £4.62 Gift Aid.
Stewardship comes out about 25p ahead. On Legacy, none of the 3.75% is ours: it covers Stripe, which collects your Direct Debit, and Charities Trust, which pays your charities and claims Gift Aid. Legacy runs on optional tips instead.
Mental health, cancer research, rescue animals and climate, side by side. Add as many charities as you like and split one monthly budget between them however you want.
A positive news feed brings stories from the charities you back, not fundraising appeals. The impact tracker charts your giving month by month.
Adjust your budget, add a cause, skip a month or pause the lot in the app. No phone calls, no cancellation period, and your yearly tax summary is a tap away.
The UK's first non-profit giving app. Pick the causes you care about, set one monthly budget, and Legacy splits it between them. One Direct Debit covers the lot.
Change the split, add a cause, or pause the whole thing from your phone. Gift Aid is handled for you, and your yearly tax summary is ready when Self Assessment comes round.
