Charities Aid Foundation in the UK has been working to help donors to make the most of their resources and has been helping NGOs for over 80 years. In 1924, The National Council of Social Service (now the National Council for Voluntary Organisations or NCVO) set up a Charities Department to encourage more efficient giving to charity.

In 1959, the Charities Department was named the Charities Aid Fund, and it achieved great success in assisting in the distribution of large sums of money for charitable purposes. In 1974, the National Council of Social Service (now the NCVO) decided that independence would allow the department to flourish.

This is when the Charities Aid Foundation was set up as an independent registered charity. It's been a long journey since then and many milestones have been achieved leaving CAF's imprint on many parts of the globe.