Why don't the wealthy give more?

Howard Lake | 21 March 2001 | News

“Comic Relief is one of those national whip-rounds where the poorest end up paying the most,” argues Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. “As the hard-earned donations came in, the… question nagged: where are the rich?”

“Comic Relief is one of those national whip-rounds where the poorest end up paying the most,” argues Jonathan Freedland in The Guardian. “As the hard-earned donations came in, the… question nagged: where are the rich?”

Freedland contrasts the charitable giving of wealthy people in the UK with that of wealthy people in the USA. He points out that “now might be a good time to start asking the rich to cough up,” since there are now 200,000 millions in Britain now, “twice the 1996 number.”

Read Precious little giving by Jonathan Freedland at GuardianUnlimited.

About Howard Lake
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.