Monday, December 03, 2012

Charitable giving by family foundations falls slightly in 2010/11, report shows | Third Sector

Charitable giving by family foundations falls slightly in 2010/11, report shows | Third Sector: Giving by the UK’s 100 largest family foundations increased by 6.2 per cent in 2010/11 if the Wellcome Trust, the biggest foundation, is discounted, a new report shows.

The Family Foundation Giving Trends survey, which is in its fifth year and is produced by the Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy and the Pears Foundation, found that there was a 1.8 per cent fall in giving among all the top 100 foundations compared with the previous year.