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One response to “Charitable Giving to Religious Causes”
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The UK 7% figure appears to be low compared to the long-running CAF/NCVO survey UK Giving at https://www.cafonline.org/pdf/UK%20Giving%202010_101210.pdf (see p18 on)
In recent years the figure has varied from 11% to 14%. This of course only measures the proportion of donors, not their monetary giving. Consistently donors to religious causes give more than to any other cause, resulting in religious causes getting more £££ donations than most other causes like arts or education.
Some recent much larger-scale government surveys have showed broadly similar results.
There is also some anecdotal evidence that some respondents only include their gifts to say mission agencies or Christian Aid in the “religious” category, and do not include their gifts to churches at all.
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