United Society Partners in the Gospel

USPG

Founded	1701; 324 years ago (1701)
Founder	Thomas Bray
Focus	Anglican Christian outreach in partnership with church communities worldwide.
Location	London, United Kingdom
Origins	Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG)
Key people	The Rev'd Duncan Dormor[1][circular reference] (General Secretary) Archbishop of Canterbury (President)
Revenue	£3.8m (2018)[2]
Employees	24 (2019)
Website	www.uspg.org.uk

United Society Partners in the Gospel (USPG) is a United Kingdom-based charitable organisation (registered charity no. 234518).^[2]

It was first incorporated under Royal Charter in 1701 as the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts (SPG) as a high church missionary organisation of the Church of England and was active in the Thirteen Colonies of North America.^[3] The group was renamed in 1965 as the United Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (USPG) after incorporating the activities of the Universities' Mission to Central Africa (UMCA). In 1968 the Cambridge Mission to Delhi also joined the organisation. From November 2012^[4] until 2016, the name was United Society or Us. In 2016, it was announced that the Society would return to the name USPG, this time standing for United Society Partners in the Gospel, from 25 August 2016.^[5]

During its more than three hundred years of operations, the Society has supported more than 15,000 men and women in mission roles within the worldwide Anglican Communion. Working through local partner churches, the charity's current focus is the support of emergency relief, longer-term development, and Christian leadership training projects. The charity encourages parishes in United Kingdom and Ireland to participate in Christian mission work through fundraising, prayer, and by setting up links with its projects around the world.