Charity Fatigue A Myth: Britons Donate Billions
DESPITE the Government doing its best to destroy the nation’s community spirit and turn us into money-grabbing, soulless little automatons, we Brits remain a generous nation. Really, we do.
According to figures released by the Charities Aid Foundation, £10.9billion was donated to the top 500 charities in the UK in 2006, an increase of almost £1billion on the previous year. The charity sector has also enjoyed an 8.6 per cent rise in income year on year, over three times the growth rate of GDP.
Oxfam’s head of new income, Barney Tallack, is understandably pleased by the figures. Says he: “It’s great news that the whole sector is up and shows that ‘donor fatigue’ is a bit of a myth. There has been a lot of innovation over the last two years, with charities finding new ways of engaging with the public.”
Major global causes such as poverty, humanitarian aid, disaster funds and children’s charity accounted for 27.7 per cent of all voluntary donations, with international charities enjoying a 22 per cent increase in revenues last year.
Yet still they can’t heal Pudsey bear’s gammy eye.
Actually, come to think of it, maybe Comic Relief veteran Terry Wogan is continually hurting Pudsey in a classic case of Munchausen’s Syndrome by proxy?
Give til it hurts…
July 17th, 2007 at 12:05 am
he tweaks his eyelashes out , doesn’t he?
July 17th, 2007 at 12:17 am
Well people did ‘donate’ close to one million pounds to the Team McCann “buy us a new house in Portugal” ‘charity’…
July 17th, 2007 at 8:12 am
Oh that’s so unfair. Don’t you realise it takes a lot of money to get your “friends” back to Portugal to lie for you? Bribes don’t come cheap.
July 17th, 2007 at 9:43 am
It’s about time charities were abolished and replaced by higher income tax rates.
July 18th, 2007 at 4:14 pm
The thing I don’t understand is how the Government can waste so much money doing things like Iraq and Afghanistan (imagine how much those two cost the tax payer) while we need to rely on charity to keep children’s hospitals etc afloat.
Imagine if your wife had wasted all your hard earned money on shite you didn’t need and you had to go out onto the streets begging to get enough money to eat.
You wouldn’t stand for that but it seems to be perfectly acceptable for the Government to do it. What would happen if absolutely nobody gave to charity for a year?
July 19th, 2007 at 11:17 pm
The country would grind to a halt.