# Add giving and volunteering to ‘Happiness Index’, urges CAF

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2010/11/21/add-giving-and-volunteering-to-happiness-index-urges-caf/
- Published: 2010-11-21T14:38:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is urging the government to include levels of charitable
giving and volunteering within its proposed ‘Happiness Index’, announced today.**

![](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/files/images/news/2765083201_55a958db14_z.jpg)

According to The Guardian[‘s Happiness index to gauge Britain’s national mood](http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/nov/14/happiness-index-britain-national-mood),“
the Office of National Statistics will shortly be asked to produce measures to implement
David Cameron’s long-stated ambition of gauging “general wellbeing”.”

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Hannah Terrey, Head of Policy and Public Affairs at the Charities Aid Foundation
said: “We’re calling on the Government and the Office of National Statistics to 
measure charitable giving as one of the indicators for wellbeing in their planned
index…

“Previous research, including our ‘[World Giving Index](http://www.cafonline.org/default.aspx?page=19479)’,
has shown that there is a clear link between giving time and money to charity and
levels of wellbeing. Further promoting individual giving would benefit not only 
charities but donors and society as a whole.”

www.cafonline.org _Photo: [dotbenjamin on flickr.com](http://www.flickr.com/photos/dotbenjamin/2765083201)_