Charity insurer increases gifts to charity
Howard Lake | 27 May 2005 | News
Ecclesiastical Insurance, which insures many UK charities, has announced a 15% increase in the amount of its annual charitable donation.
The company is increasing its donations from £4.24 million to £4.9 million, including a special one-off payment of £0.5 million.
According to The Directory of Social Change’s ‘The guide to UK Company Giving 2005’, Ecclesiastical is the 8th largest corporate donor to charities. However, it points out that, of all those companies publishing profits in 2003, Ecclesiastical comes top for the percentage of pre-tax profits it donated (9.59%).
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Ecclesiastical insures a range of charities including The Children’s Society, The Royal Air Forces Association, The National Federation of Shopmobility, Emmaus Communities, The Landmark Trust and The Leonard Cheshire Foundation.
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.