Individual giving
Our partners provide members with the infrastructure and training to start businesses which sustain their families. Donations support Savings Group by providing communities who have been marginalised with access to financial services, plus literacy, numeracy and business skills training. If you choose to donate money online your payment will be securely processed by Enthuse.
We are a small, agile organisation and work with a very close network of partner organisations that allows for a personal touch with Savings Group members. The same goes for our donors. If you pick up the phone or send off an email, you can be sure that we’ll get right back to you. If you’d like to see the work we do, we often take donors out to visit programmes.
Please email info@fivetalents.org.uk if you would like your monthly or one-off gift to be allocated to a specific project.
We urge all of our supporters to consider monthly donations to Five Talents, it allows us to plan for the future and lets us evaluate how many programmes we can start during any given year. Whilst we happily accept cheques and cash, when you donate money online it allows us to minimise the amount of admin, meaning that your generosity has the greatest impact. If you’d prefer we can provide BACs details as well, just contact us. Learn how we use your donation by clicking here.
£3 p/m
covers the cost of one Savings Group member to access a safe place to save and loan money alongside literacy, numeracy and business skills training for one year.
£8 p/m
covers the cost of one literacy, numeracy or business training session enabling our partner staff to visit a community and provide mentoring, support and skills training.
£20 p/m
covers the daily salary of one of our partner staff who will form Savings Groups, deliver training and give mentoring and oversight to entrepreneurs.
£50 p/m
covers the cost of training one Project Officer. Each Officer trains around 300 members per year to expand their businesses and equip them to build a brighter future.
One-off gifts
One-off donations will allow us to continue supporting our partners. We appreciate every penny that our supporters generously donate. If you’d like to donate online please click here and change the drop down menu to “one-off.” If you would like to give cash or cheque you can post them to Five Talents UK.
Gifts in your Will
We would like to encourage all of our supporters to write a Will. Doing so will save your loved ones time and effort in the future.
We also welcome people leaving a legacy to Five Talents which creates decades of impact.
Donating land, property or shares to Five Talents
Donating land, property or shares to charity can be a tax efficient way of giving. To find out more, please see HMRC's guidance. We recommend that you consult your financial or professional advisers. Stewardship, the Christian giving advisers, may also be able to help facilitate gifts of land, property or shares to Five Talents; you can contact their Philanthropy Services team (with no obligation of course) on 0208 418 8896 or philanthropy@stewardship.org.uk. Feel free to contact Five Talents to find out more.
Join a Giving Group
If you have a heart for a particular programme - we’d love you to join one of our Giving Groups. After 3-5 years our programmes become fully self-sustaining without financial support from Five Talents. You (and your friends, family, company, church, social club etc.) can join a Giving Group - pledging to give an annual donation to a programme until it becomes fully self-sustaining.
When you pledge money to a programme we make sure you stay up to date on that programme’s progress through regular updates and, if you like, project visits. Some of our Butere Giving Group members cut the ribbon at the programme’s official launch in Kenya! You'll have a personal connection with the programme through your Giving Group, and the incredible satisfaction of knowing you’ve helped a whole region move from start to sustainability. Contact us to learn more about Giving Groups - and read more about the impact you could have here.
“Five Talents has a proven track record in helping people to lift themselves out of poverty. I know, because I have seen their expansion over ten years. Now donors have a chance to invest in something more. If you commit to provide the same sum every year for up to five years, you can help establish a whole programme in Kenya, supporting thousands of individuals to become self-sufficient. I helped to get the first one going and lots more are planned. Five Talents needs donors who commit for up to five years to an investment in people’s lives, giving rural communities dignity and self-sufficency.” - Nigel Wildish, Kericho Giving Group