Our Impact
Since Just Love began in 2013, Just Love students have run 7,657 events, with an aggregate attendance of 88,575 students. They’ve raised £215,456 for other charities and given 43,500 volunteer hours in their local communities.
Forming disciples capable of meeting the great social, economic, political and ecological challenges of our time is at the heart of everything we do at Just Love.
We believe that the most effective way to form those sorts of disciples is to cultivate a Network - a dense, deeply connected group of highly motivated individuals - committed to a lifelong pursuit justice in the way of Jesus.
We activate that lifelong pursuit of justice in the way of Jesus through our student work. We sustain and deepen it through the Network.
Students have volunteered in their local communities, doing everything from homeless outreaches to teaching English to refugees, from youth mentoring to collections for food banks.
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 Impact Data
This data is drawn from survey research conducted in 2024 comparing 227 Just Love graduates with 134 UK Christians who had not been part of Just Love.
Stories of Impact
Hear from our Network on how Just Love has impacted their walk with justice in the way of Jesus.
Our strategy to grow a Network of thousands pursuing justice in the way of Jesus.
“I am always impressed by people I meet from Just Love. Their faith in Jesus makes them unstoppably motivated to work to make their community better. They are starting to have an impact in Parliament, and I hope we will see a great deal more of that impact in the years ahead.”
— Sir Stephen Timms, MP - Minister of State for Disabilities
How we’re growing a Network living out justice in the way of Jesus
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:
1.Most Christian student discipleship is justice-light.
2.Most Christian students are disengaged from the great justice issues of our day.
3.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.
