All We Can is the operating name for the Methodist Relief and Development Fund, an international development and emergency relief organisation. It is based at Methodist Church House in London, which is also the

Methodist Church of Great Britain The Methodist Church of Great Britain is a Protestantism, Protestant List of Christian denominations, Christian denomination in Britain, and the mother church to Methodism, Methodists worldwide. It participates in the World Methodist Council. M ...

's headquarters. Its activities include: * Responding to humanitarian crises with emergency relief and helps communities to be better prepared for disasters * Engaging in global education to inform, challenge, motivate and enable people to take a stance against poverty and injustice. Y Care International (

YMCA YMCA, sometimes regionally called the Y, is a worldwide youth organisation based in Geneva, Switzerland, with more than 64 million beneficiaries in 120 countries. It has nearly 90,000 staff, some 920,000 volunteers and 12,000 branches w ...

's international development and relief agency) and All We Can announced a formal partnership on 1 September 2021 through which the two organisations will aim to "combine their efforts to tackle poverty, inequality and injustice in some of the world's most vulnerable communities". Y Care International will continue as a separate charitable body, but in future all its services will be fulfilled by All We Can.

Name

The charity's name derives from an apocryphal quote attributed to

John Wesley John Wesley ( ; 2 March 1791) was an English cleric, Christian theology, theologian, and Evangelism, evangelist who was a principal leader of a Christian revival, revival movement within the Church of England known as Methodism. The societies ...

, the founder of Methodism:

Recognition

It is recognised as one of the UK's best charities to work for, having been named in the top five "Best Charities to Work For" by Third Sector 2020, where its child-friendly practices were especially recognised, and is known as one of the sector's most pioneering NGOs in development work and humanitarian aid, shortlisted for the Civil Society Awards 2019.Civil Society Awards
Charity Awards: Shortlist 2019
accessed 31 October 2021

References

External links

Official website
Christian charities based in the United Kingdom Methodism in the United Kingdom International development agencies {{Methodist-stub