Downturn in charitable giving has ended, says NCVO

Howard Lake | 27 July 1999 | News

New figures from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) have just been published which show a slight rise in donations to charity following a downward trend that has lasted several years.

New figures from the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) have just been published which show a slight rise in donations to charity following a downward trend that has lasted several years. Public donations have risen nearly 10% between 1997 and 1998 to £4.94 billion.

But all is not well, says NCVO: “without urgent government support, charity giving could revert to the downward trend of the early nineties.”

Read NCVO’s announcement.

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Howard Lake is consultant editor of UK Fundraising. He founded the site in 1994 and successfully sold it in 2022. As director of Giving X Ltd he is exploring growing giving on a massive scale. He is the founder of Fundraising Camp and co-founder of GoodJobs.