# The Million Pound Donors Report

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2013/01/29/million-pound-donors-report/
- Published: 2013-01-29T16:25:31+00:00
- Author: Finbar Cullen

**Over the last few years I have occasionally sent details of charitable donations
of over £1,000,000 to Beth Breeze at [Centre for Philanthropy](http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/cphsj)
at the University of Kent. **

I get my information from charity accounts, usually from the Charity Commission.
Whilst other large donations tend to be well publicised, donations to grant-making
trusts often slip “under the radar”.  The Centre for Philanthropy at The University
of Kent produces the marvellous “[Million Pound Donors Report](http://www.kent.ac.uk/sspssr/cphsj/research/couttsmilliondonor.html)”(
in association with Coutts).

[Liz Lipscomb](https://www.fundraising.co.uk/mailto:li*@*********************co.uk),
Honorary Research Fellow of the University of Kent, will be undertaking research
for the next edition of the report. Liz would like to hear from anyone who knows
of a charity that has had a £1m+ donation recently, and is also interested in hearing
from charities who think their £1m+ donor might be interested in being a case study
in the 2013 report. If you spot donations which were received within the tax year
2011/12 or 2012/13, please let Liz know. With regard to donors for the case study,
the donation would not need to have been made in a particular time period, but it
would need to have been fairly recent.

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Anyone who helps out with this research could be in line for a hard copy of the 
report. I note that Beth Breeze spoke at the IoF Major Donor Fundraising [Conference](http://www.institute-of-fundraising.org.uk/blog/major-donor-fundraising),
on 28th January 2013. I heard her at a (fairly recent) Researchers in Fundraising
conference, discussing her research. If we can help to make future reports even 
better, then we can all benefit.

Finbar Cullen, [Research**Plus**](http://www.researchplus.co.uk)