# Fifth of Brits have donated to charity in last three months

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/08/04/fifth-of-brits-have-donated-to-charity-in-last-three-months/
- Published: 2020-08-04T09:00:17+01:00
- Author: Melanie May

**One in five people in the UK have donated to charity in the last three months,
despite the pandemic’s impact on finances, YouGov research has found. **

 

 

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YouGov looked at YouGov Profiles to find out what proportion of Brits had donated
in the past three months, as well as insights into who had been giving. Examining
data on over 17,000 people who had donated in the past three months, it found that
donors were most likely to be older people, with 48% being aged 55 and above, followed
by 40-54 year olds, at 23%.  They were also more likely to be female than male with
54% of those that had given identifying as such.

 

 

 

More donors gave money as an ad hoc event (51%) than as part of a regular donation
schedule (43%). One in nine (11%) however gave ad hoc donations as well as structured
contributions.

 

 

 

[YouGov’s research](https://yougov.co.uk/topics/consumer/articles-reports/2020/07/30/one-five-britons-have-given-charity-last-three-mon)
also looked at how much disposable income those who had donated said they had. Those
that gave tended to have less than those that didn’t, with 18% of donors saying 
they had just £1-£125 disposable income, 15% having £125-£249, and 14% of donors
saying they had £250-£499 to spare. In comparison, 9% of those who had donated were
in the bracket for the most disposable income (£1000+), and 6% in the bracket below
that (£750-£999).

 

 

 

The top five causes donated to were:

 

 

 

 * Health and medicine (30% of those who had donated)
 * Animals – 27% of donors
 * Children – 20% of donors
 * Community –  12% of donors
 * Environment & conservation – 11% of donors

 

 

 

YouGov also noted that people who had donated in the last three months were more
likely than non-donors to agree with the statements “I make an effort to support
local business” (75%, compared to 67% of the general population) and “I try to buy
products made in my home country (64% vs 56% of all Britons). 

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