Our Impact
Just Love students have raised over £170,000 for other charities and given more than 36,000 volunteer hours in local communities.They’ve run over 6,250 events to equip other students to pursue justice in the way of Jesus, with an aggregate attendance of over 73,000 students.
What we do, and why
Our strategy to grow a Network of thousands pursuing justice in the way of Jesus.
We help students to grow in the character, values, theology and practices to seek justice in the way of Jesus holistically, fruitfully and sustainably.
This results in impactful action in their university cities and beyond.
Students have volunteered in their local communities, doing everything from homeless outreaches to teaching English to refugees, from youth mentoring to collections for foodbanks.
They’ve run 24-hour long anti-slavery demonstrations on their campuses, collecting signatures to petitioning their universities to ensure slavery-free supply chains and raising money for International Justice Mission
In 2016-17 we ran the Unashamed campaign, raising awareness of sexism and violence against women at universities and equipping Christian students to confront these injustices in all their forms.
The campaign was featured by Tearfund, 24-7, and Christian Today.
In 2018, Just Love students in Cambridge helped to launch a refugee scholarship programme providing fully funded places for 10 refugees and asylum seekers.
Just Love Students in Durham launched a winter night shelter providing emergency accommodation during the coldest months of winter to those living on the streets.
Our greatest potential for deep, long-term, creative justice impact in our world will come through our graduates as they pursue justice in the way of Jesus holistically, fruitfully and sustainably over their lifetimes.
In 2019, we surveyed our graduates and 97% of those surveyed agreed that they cared more about social justice and had their theological understanding of justice developed as a result of having been involved with Just Love. 89% agreed that Just Love had helped them to develop as a leader, 93% agreed that Just Love had made them more likely to consume ethically and pursue justice in their careers, and 85% agreed that they were more likely to give generously as a result of their involvement with Just Love.
How our Network members are pursuing justice in the way of Jesus
Neil, Cambridge —
“My involvement in Just Love has completely changed the course of my life. It's opened my eyes to just how BIG Jesus is, and how all-encompassing His mission to the world is. It's helped me realise that social justice isn't an optional extra, but an integral part of Christian discipleship.”
Our Needs Assessment Report
At Just Love, we seek to consistently improve what we do, so that we can see our vision and mission fulfilled. As a movement, we want to be critically engaged and data driven in order to maximise our impact and fruitfulness.
In the summer of 2022, with Eido Research, we conducted a ‘Needs Assessment’, asking 184 Christian students questions about both their individual responses to justice and that of their church. As the first stage in our process of building our impact strategy, we aimed to understand the specific needs of UK Christian students when it comes to pursuing justice in the way of Jesus.
The research highlighted 3 specific areas of need:
Most Christian student discipleship is justice-light.
Most Christian students are disengaged from the great justice issues of our day.
Christian students are generally not finding answers to their deep concern for justice in church.
This clarity on the needs that we are seeking to address has shaped the Impact Strategy we have developed. Christian students care deeply about justice, but they are generally not being well equipped to faithfully pursue justice in the way of Jesus. That clarifies the role that we have to play in forming young disciples for a holistic, fruitful and sustainable pursuit of justice in the way of Jesus.
Read our story so far
For more on how Just Love has been inspiring a generation pursue justice at univeristy and beyond.