In the last two years the top 20 fundraising charities in the UK raised 11 per cent more money than in the two years before, while the remaining 80 charities raised 5.5 per cent less, according to figures published today.
An analysis of the figures from Fundraising Magazine’s 100 Top Fundraising Director’s Survey – a survey conducted by the title every two years – shows that the top 20 fundraising charities in the UK raised a total of £2.5bn between them in the financial years ending in 2014 and 2015.
This figure was 11 per cent larger than the amount raised by the UK’s top 20 fundraising charities in the two financial years ending in 2012 and 2013.
By comparison, the remaining 80 charities raised just under £2.2bn, a decrease of 5.5 per cent from the previous set of figures for 2012 and 2013.
Top 100 charities raise over £4.7bn
The data showed that the top 100 fundraising charities in the UK raised a combined total of over £4.7bn, an increase of over £130m from the previous set of data, but a stagnation in real terms.
The top fundraising charity in the UK was Cancer Research UK. In the year ending 31 March 2015, it had a total income of over £620m, with its fundraising activities accounting for over £430m of that figure.
Macmillan Cancer Support was the second largest fundraising organisation in the UK, with a total income of £230.2m, up to the year ending 31 December 2015, with fundraising accounting for £229m of that figure. RNLI was the UK’s third largest fundraising organisation, raising £175m in the year ending 31 December 2015. The top ten charities in this year’s survey all raised over £100m in their financial years for the first time since the data began to be collated.
A full pdf of the 100 Top Fundraising Director’s Survey 2017, and accompanying feature, can be read here by subscribers to Fundraising Magazine.
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