# Quarter of charity staff have had pay cuts, says Keep Britain Working - Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/01/quarter-charity-staff-have-had-pay-cuts-says-keep-britain-working/ - Published: 2009-06-01T14:47:09+01:00 - Author: Howard Lake A survey by the Keep Britain Working campaign has found that 24% of charity and voluntary workers have had their pay cut since the recession began nine months ago.   The survey of 1,600 workers has also found that 20% have experienced a reduction in hours and 10% have lost benefits. ## 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/)   Overall, more than half of all UK workers (54%) have experienced a cut in pay, a reduction in hours or a loss of benefits since the recession began. Just last week Honda workers chose to accept pay cuts of 3% to avoid redundancies.   Over the last nine months 27% of UK workers across all sectors surveyed have had their pay cut, 24% have had their hours reduced and 24% have lost benefits, according to the survey. While 37% of UK workers have experienced just one of these changes, 12% have experienced two of them and 5% have experienced all three.   James Reed, founder of the independent Keep Britain Working Campaign and CEO of recruitment company Reed, said: “The UK workforce has demonstrated unprecedented flexibility during this recession, allowing organisations to explore a whole range of cost-cutting responses other than relying solely on redundancies”.   www.keepbritainworking.com   * **[New staff at UNICEF's media team](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/19/new-staff-unicef039s-media-team/)**( 19 June 2009) * **[Be paid to work overseas for UK charity, courtesy of Vodafone Foundation](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/06/27/be-paid-work-overseas-uk-charity-courtesy-vodafone-foundation/)**( 27 June 2009) * **[Guy Stringer: obituary](https://fundraising.co.uk/2009/08/06/guy-stringer-obituary/)**( 6 August 2009)