Just Love UK

What if every Christian student shared a passion for social justice and did something about it?

At Just Love, that question inspires our mission – to equip Christian students at university and beyond to pursue justice with their whole lives. And we’d love for it to inspire you to partner with us in this mission too.

From global poverty to the climate crisis, our world is scarred by terrible injustice. We worship a God who is not okay about that. We long to see God’s kingdom of perfect peace and justice on earth as in heaven. 

From our experience and research, we’ve found that Christian students in the UK care about justice but they are generally not being given a clear vision of what the biblical call to justice is, or the tools to pursue God’s justice as a way of life. Without this vision and these tools, it’s difficult to turn that longing into meaningful action. 

At Just Love, we want this to change, and see thousands of students committing to giving sacrificially, living ethically and transforming the industries in which they work, out of devotion to Jesus and his kingdom of perfect peace and justice. We work to raise up a generation who have cultivated the character, values, theology, imagination and practices that will enable them to pursue Jesus and justice faithfully with their whole lives.

University is a time where people set the trajectory for the rest of their lives – we think this provides the perfect time to shift the culture of the next generation of the church towards justice. 

Our organisation supports and coaches 23 student-led Just Love groups. These groups do five things – volunteer locally, fundraise for other effective charities, learn together, pray together, and campaign – while engaging their community in the pursuit of Jesus and justice. Since we began 10 years ago, our students have: 

• Run over 6,250 events on justice issues, with an aggregate attendance of over 73,000 students. 
• Raised £170,000 for other charities.
• Given 36,000 hours of volunteering time to their local communities.

Our student group in Birmingham – ‘Just Love Brum’ – has been running for five years now and have done amazing work volunteering with Let’s Feed Brum and Newbigin Community Trust, as well as raising money for local charities like St Basils.

We work with these students to set them on a trajectory towards acting justly and walking humbly with our God (Micah 6:8). Through our graduate network, we support them after university to stay on that trajectory for the long haul. It’s through the work, service, giving, lifestyle, relationships and prayer of our graduates that we will leverage huge justice impact for those who are suffering in our world. 

If this mission is compelling to you, throughout this newsletter we’ve kindly been given the platform to spotlight a few ways in which you can partner with us in this important work – including promoting the opportunity to be on the 2023-2024 Just Love Brum committee to students in your church, generously giving prayer and input to students in Just Love Brum, and attending a Vision and Fundraising evening for Just Love UK on Wednesday the 22nd of March at Rudy’s Pizzeria.

Would you join us and our students in praying ‘let justice roll on like a river, righteousness like a never ending stream!’ (Amos 5:24), and acting to see those prayers answered.