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Top charities' income not matching inflation

Howard Lake

Howard Lake | 12 January 2001 | News

Charity income is failing to keep up with the rate of inflation according to the latest research from Charities Aid Foundation.

Charity income is failing to keep up with the rate of inflation according to the latest research from Charities Aid Foundation.

The combined total income of CAF’s top 500 fundraising charities exceeded £5 billion in 1999, generating an absolute increase of £70 million on the previous year. However, in real terms, this represented a decrease of 1.7%, compared to a rise of 9% in 1998.

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Find out more from Charities Aid Foundation and read Charity income on the decline by Nicola Hill at SocietyGuardian.

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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.

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