# One quarter of people uncharitable, says survey

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2016/03/23/one-quarter-people-uncharitable-says-survey/
- Published: 2016-03-23T09:09:51+00:00
- Author: Melanie May

**A quarter of people in the UK do not consider themselves to be charitable, and
only one in ten gives to the homeless, according to a survey by Vouchercloud.**

[Vouchercloud.com](https://www.vouchercloud.com/) questioned over 2,000 UK adults
on how charitable they were: more than half of respondents (51%) agreed that they
thought they were, while a quarter (25%) answered ‘sometimes’ and the remaining 
24% stated that they did not think they were charitable people.

However, when asked to estimate how much they have donated over the past 12 months
through financial and gift donations, and to how many charities, the results showed
that the average Briton has donated £156.03 over the past 12 months to seven different
charities – averaging £22.29 per charity.

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The most common method of giving was putting small change into charity tins at tills
and checkouts: carried out by 58% of respondents. Donating clothes via clothes bins
and charity bag home pickups came second with 37%, while 29% had put money in charity
collections on the street, 19% had donated by giving to family and friends doing
charity events, and 11% gave to charity via monthly direct debit.

When asked whether they ever gave to the homeless, 90% said that they did not. Of
the remaining 10% that did, 68% preferred to donate food and drink rather than money.

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