Choose Love CIO is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 1177927). In the USA, Choose Love, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) charitable non-profit organisation. 

Choose Love operates through allocating grants to grassroots organisations working on the ground with displaced people. We believe that grassroots and refugee led organisations are better placed to know what refugees and displaced people actually need and how to deliver this. 

We raise funds and pass on this funding directly to our partner organisations to get essential supplies and services to displaced people. We strive to be as transparent as possible about how funds are used and are grateful to all who hold us and other charities accountable - our financial accounts and impact reports are published annually and are available here. 

We’re so sorry but unfortunately Choose Love is not able to help individuals. We are a small grant-making organisation without the capacity to respond to personal needs. Instead, our approach is to support local organisations who are best placed to respond to individual circumstances. 

Therefore, we suggest that you contact an agency or NGO that directly supports refugees, asylum seekers or displaced persons local to you, or reach out to UNHCR if they are present in the region you are in. You can see our partner organisations supporting displaced people here.

LGBTQ+ SUPPORT:

We partner organisations providing support for displaced people, including individuals displaced or at risk of being displaced because of their gender identity or sexuality. 

If you feel unsafe because of your sexuality, we strongly recommend you contact local authorities if it is safe to do so. 

In extreme cases we may be able to signpost services but we are not in a position to provide financial or psychological support to individuals.

Unfortunately, we are not currently accepting unsolicited requests for funding. You may contact us but we do not have capacity to support every organisation that reaches out. Please contact us on contact@choose.love

Unfortunately we do not collect physical donations in the UK ourselves as we are a small team with no UK warehouse.

You can find out where to donate items by getting in touch with our partners listed here: https://chooselove.org/donate-goods/

Every partner we work with is carefully vetted to make sure all money donated is used to help displaced people in line with the humanitarian principles. We have rigorous due diligence processes in place to ensure that partners uphold humanitarian standards, align with our values, and respond to context-specific risks. This also includes screening our partners against relevant sanctions and terrorism lists from the US and UK. We do not fund any political organisations and are ourselves, a strictly humanitarian organisation.

If a lot of people buy the same item from our shop and we have an urgent need for other items, we will seek to even things up to provide the full range of vital services our projects need. (For example, many people may buy the baby bundle at a time when our partners are in need of funds for hot food.) This means that in rare cases, some of your donation could be used for a different item or service. Whatever happens, we promise that 100% of your purchase will be used to fund aid for refugees and displaced people.

Choose Love is partnering with a wide variety of organisations on the ground in Gaza. Some run activities like mental health and psychosocial support, or child friendly activities - for which we cover staffing costs and these are not dependent on the borders opening. 

For partners running food distributions and medical programmes - it is imperative that the blockade on aid is lifted. However, we must not wait until the block is lifted in order to get funding to them. Funding now means that they can procure life-saving items and prepare trucks for the moment the blockade is lifted.