Good Local Economics

As charitable giving declines, can technology inspire a new generation to donate?

While the UK has long been one of the most generous countries in the world, competition for public donations is intense with individual giving falling by 0.6% in 2013 and fewer people in the 15 – 29 age group donating to charity. Charities increasingly find their support from the 9% of the population responsible for two thirds of all charitable activity.

When I started writing for New Start in 2005 my column was about the biggest Single Regeneration Budget scheme and neighbourhood management pilot in the south west of England. For three years I exposed the inner workings and idiosyncrasies of Hartcliffe and Withywood Community Partnership (HWCP) in Bristol and any reader will have noticed how much everything revolved around ‘the boss’.