Overseas aid charities

We’ve worked with a range of charities that provide life-saving aid and support to vulnerable people overseas.

These include truly inspiring organisations such as ActionAid, International Rescue Committee, Christian Aid, Comic Relief and Plan UK.

For us, it’s a real privilege to help charities like this provide emergency relief, support education and gender equality, and tackle the root causes of poverty and injustice.

Conflict, natural disasters, political instability, health crises and economic shocks continue to have a devastating impact on the lives of millions of people around the world.

Thankfully in the UK, there are many incredible humanitarian aid charities that work tirelessly to ensure children and adults overseas have the essentials they need to survive, stay healthy and thrive.

At Yarn, we feel privileged when we get the chance to work with inspiring organisations like this. We truly love using our skills and experience to help disadvantaged people and those living in crisis zones.

How we work with overseas aid charities 

If we’re lucky enough to partner with your overseas aid or international development charity, we’ll start by getting to know you inside out. 

We’ll take a deep dive into your services, campaigns and the issues you care about. Next, we’ll explore your project brief with you – discussing opportunities, challenges and the best way forward.

From there, our creatives take over, weaving Yarn’s five golden threads – stimulating, moving, accurate, relatable and trustworthy – into the stories they craft for you.

Throughout your project, you can count on us to respond to queries quickly, offer expert guidance and keep everything running like clockwork.

With every project, our goal is simple: to exceed our client’s expectations and make the whole process enjoyable, rewarding and inspiring.

Our overseas aid charity clients

Our projects for overseas aid charities

"Yarn’s practitioner guidance documents have been well received, with excitement for upcoming dissemination. The team’s patience and flexibility kept things moving despite hurdles and delays, delivering everything on time. They were open to feedback, meeting every request and making adjustments as needed. The final documents are impressively designed—the bright colours and images make complex charts and dense content engaging and user-friendly. Thank you again!"

Megan O'Brien

Senior Information Management Specialist at IRC

Did you know!

CAF’s UK Giving 2025 estimates

658 million

was donated to overseas aid and disaster relief charities in 2024. That’s 4% of the £15.4 billion donated overall.1 

In 2024, Save the Children reported supporting

41.2 million

children in 93 countries.2

The International Rescue Committee’s annual Watchlist report reveals the countries most at risk of worsening humanitarian crises, with Sudan, the occupied Palestinian territory and Myanmar topping the list in 2025.3

Oxfam was created in 1942 to provide food and aid to people suffering in Nazi-occupied Greece.4

Our creative services for overseas aid charities

Brand
Design
Words
Digital
Film
Photography
Research

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