With communities, through partnerships, for lasting outcomes.
Rescue Mission describes working with community leaders, vetted local organisations, volunteers, sponsors and wider partners. It aims to strengthen communities’ ability to address poverty, inequality and preventable hardship.
The charity’s published approach combines knowledge of local conditions with practical support, training, advocacy, and community development. It sees people affected by deprivation as partners in change.
Draw on local needs assessments and available evidence.
Work alongside community leaders and organisations.
Support education, health, nutrition and livelihoods.
Develop skills, voice and local leadership.
Our website connects practical action to people’s dignity and a greater say in their own lives. The ideas on this page are drawn from Rescue Mission’s published descriptions of its mission and programme areas.
A closer look at one activity or example described in Rescue Mission’s public materials.
The Rescue Mission Education page describes volunteer teachers supporting basic literacy and numeracy in places including Ghana and Ethiopia. It presents the relationship between trained volunteers, local schools and children as a route to improved access to learning.
The challenge is understood through people’s lives and circumstances.
Practical support is linked to dignity, safety or long-term opportunity.
Supporters can contribute funds, time or awareness.
The organisation describes partnership working, petitioning and advocacy, and leadership development as ways of addressing both day-to-day needs and the structural barriers that keep families in poverty.
Listen to communities and review needs.
Work with trusted local partners.
Bring together resources and relevant skills.
Help strengthen local leadership and capacity.
Rescue Mission’s own descriptions emphasise community organisations, local knowledge and people with experience of the challenges being addressed. The relationship between those different contributions is central to the charity’s published approach.
Local priorities and needs.
People, skills, materials and support.
Collaboration in programme delivery.
The website welcomes people who want to act as fundraisers, volunteers or ambassadors, as well as organisations able to form partnerships around community development.
Rescue Mission welcomes those who can give, volunteer, fundraise or work with partners on programmes responding to the needs of vulnerable communities.
Contribute skills and time in appropriate roles.
Support events or organise a local appeal.
Explore work with local groups and institutions.
Lasting impact depends on strong relationships, local voice and shared action.
Give securely using Rescue Mission’s official donation page.
Explore volunteering, fundraising and partnership options.
Read the connected About Us and programme pages.
Rescue Mission is a registered company limited by guarantee (Company No. 10413275) Registered Charity No. 1196944 (England & Wales) 20-22 Wenlock Road, London, N1 7GU, England, United Kingdom
