Fall in donations 'hitting small charities harder'

The recent decline in charitable giving is likely to have more of an impact on smaller non-profit organisations, it has been claimed.

Deputy director of Kidscape Peter Bradley said that large charities will often be able to withstand a significant drop in charity investing due to government funding, whereas their smaller counterparts do not have such resources.

Mr Bradley was responding to a recent report from the Charities Aid Foundation, which revealed that donations to the 170,000 charities registered in the UK have declined by 11 per cent this year.

’It is the small charities that will be experiencing these issues more than the bigger ones,’ he explained.

’The larger charities do have government funding, whereas the small charities often don’t and rely greatly on the public being very generous in their giving.’

Kidscape is a British charity set up by child psychologist Michele Elliott in 1984 to prevent bullying and sexual abuse among people under the age of 16.
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