Christian Aid's own "Our History" page, published on the organization's own site, is the charity's self-published account of its founding and institutional development. Its strength is direct institutional authority for its own founding narrative, and its dates and figures were checked against independent secondary reporting. Its limit is that it remains a self-published account rather than an independent institutional history, so a contested claim about the organization's early years benefits from an outside source as well.
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Reliability Tier2
Christian Aid's own published history page; tier two because it is the organization's self-published account of its founding, not independently audited or peer reviewed, though its dates and figures were checked against independent secondary reporting. NotesChristian Aid's own published history page, read directly for this entry. States the organization was founded in 1945 by British and Irish churches to help refugees following the Second World War, and that it raised more than 80,000 pounds sterling (over 3 million pounds in today's money) for emergency supplies in mainland Europe. This account was corroborated and dated more precisely against independent reporting: Christian Aid's roots lie in Christian Reconstruction in Europe, an ad-hoc committee the major British and Irish churches of the British Council of Churches formed in 1943; its first church appeal fell on 13 May 1945, the Sunday after Victory in Europe Day; the appeal was repeated in 1946 as Churches in Europe Day; and the effort was absorbed into the British Council of Churches in 1949 as the Inter-Church Aid and Refugee Service, the lineage that became Christian Aid. Reliability tier 2, basis: the organization's own self-published account of its founding, not independently audited or peer-reviewed, but the specific dates and figures it gives align with, and were checked against, independent secondary reporting (a SOAS Library special collections archive blog post and Churches Together in England's VE Day 80th anniversary retrospective), so it is used here as a corroborated primary institutional account rather than an unverified self-report.
Citation
AuthorChristian Aid
PublisherChristian Aid
URLhttps://www.christianaid.org.uk/our-work/about-us/our-history
Source Typeorganization primary source
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This source backs 11 claims across the atlas. As facts: 10 well-attested. Plus 1 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 7 claims: 7 well-attested.
- Articles, 4 claims: 3 well-attested, 1 general references.
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