# Concern UK’s income up 25%

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2018/10/29/concern-uks-income-up-25/
- Published: 2018-10-29T07:45:00+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Concern UK’s fundraising income bounced back from a fall in 2016 to record a nearly
25% increase last year, according to the charity’s latest accounts.**

Fundraising income in 2017 was £9.8 million, up from £7.4 million in 2016. Total
income last year, which includes support from government and other agencies, was
£34.4 million which is an increase of 30%.

The largest voluntary income source for Concern UK is individual giving which last
year grew from £4.6 million to £4.9 million. The accounts say that donations from
major donors increased substantially, in part due to the successful launch of Concern’s
Philanthropic Circle initiative.

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Corporate, major donor and trust income was £2.3 million in 2017 (£1.8 million in
2016). Concern says its focus on building long-term partnerships with charitable
trusts and foundations continues to deliver income growth, including strong support
for our East Africa Crisis and Rohingya Refugee Crisis emergency appeals.

In 2017, Concern received £1.4 million from the Disaster Emergency Committee (DEC)
in response to major emergencies – the East Africa crisis, ongoing earthquake response
in Nepal, and the Rohingya crisis in Bangladesh. In 2016, DEC income was £0.3 million
due to no major emergency response during the prior year.

Legacy income was £703,000, from £440,000 in 2016 while community fundraising income
was £420,000.

Unusually, [Concern UK](http://www.concern.org.uk) publishes not only its overall
fundraising expenditure figure but fundraising costs for each area of activity. 
Individual giving costs were nearly £2 million, corporate giving £430,000, community
fundraising £158,000, and legacy giving £14,000. Total fundraising expenditure was
£2.6 million last year, marginally up on the year before.