# NCVO reports on scale of UK voluntary sector - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/06/05/ncvo-reports-scale-uk-voluntary-sector/ - Published: 2002-06-05T23:00:00+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) next week publishes the UK Voluntary Sector Alamanac 2002, its bi-annual snapshot of the voluntary sector. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) next week publishes the UK Voluntary Sector Alamanac 2002, its bi-annual snapshot of the voluntary sector. It reveals that the sector’s income increased from £14.2 billion in 1998-99 to £ 16.5 billion in 2000-01, while expenditure grew even faster from £13.4 billion to £15 billion over the same period. ## Advertisement [⌊Posthub advert. You create the campaign. We'll handle the postal journey. Get started at post-hub.co.uk.⌉](https://fundraising.co.uk/ads/posthub-20261007-300x250/) Income from government contracts rose by £3m, from 15.3% of total income to 16.1%. Income from grants and donations dropped from 46.1% to 43.6%. The percentage of donations received as personal donations also fell from 20.2% to 19.7%. Charities are clearly trying to diversify their income: income from the sale of goods and services incrased from £4.8 billion to £5.5 billion, from 33.7% of total income to 35.1%. Fundraising and publicity expenditure has jumped from £398m to £825m, but still accounts for only 5.5% of total expenditure. Charity funds investment increased by £400m to £3.3 billion. The sector’s contrasts are still extreme. The top 200 charities, or 0.4% of the sector, generate over a third of the sector’s total income. Meanwhile 75% of all charities raise less than £100,000 a year each. Read Charities’ sales by Alison Benjamin at SocietyGuardian. (11/1/2002) * **[RPO appoints Emperor to redesign Web site](https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/06/06/rpo-appoints-emperor-redesign-web-site/)**( 6 June 2002) * **[Tate appoints Thinkpod to develop e-mail newsletter](https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/06/06/tate-appoints-thinkpod-develop-email-newsletter/)**( 6 June 2002) * **[Sport Relief's SMS fundraising starts this week](https://fundraising.co.uk/2002/06/06/sport-relief039s-sms-fundraising-starts-week/)**( 6 June 2002)