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Engaging, informing and influencing. Discover how we are working to create a better world by championing charities, and the amazing people who support them.

Giving Tuesday is growing giving

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OUR PASSION

We are committed to advocate for charity by encouraging giving, and by influencing policy makers in the UK and globally to create real, positive change for civil society. We work directly with charities, philanthropists and government to better understand and influence key issues facing the sector. Giving is our passion, and building on our unique knowledge and experience we are campaigning to create a better world.

OUR CAMPAIGNS

Groundwork for Growing Giving

With as many as 2.4 billion people set to join the world’s middle classes by 2030, it is crucial that we ensure that the groundwork is put in place to support and encourage their engagement with giving.

Read about the campaign

Giving Tuesday

Giving Tuesday is a global campaign that encourages people to give their time, money and voice to charity, focussed around one special day. We run the UK's Giving Tuesday campaign.

Find out how you can get involved with Giving Tuesday

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Giving for the City

Our campaign explores the role philanthropy can play in towns and cities around the UK, and proposes what needs to be done to build a new era of civic philanthropy.

Visit our Giving for the City hub

Future:Good

We are campaigning for social trends and new technologies such as Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain, to have a positive impact on the future of charities and the causes they help.

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INFLUENCING GOVERNMENT

We work with government and all those who are interested in charities to encourage giving, and help charities and social enterprises to flourish. We champion the contribution that charities, donors and volunteers make to society. We are:

Informing and influencing the Government’s Civil Society Strategy
Championing a positive regulatory, financial and political environment for charity
Working with other charities and their supporters to shape the future of giving
Ensuring that metro mayors and regional government promote giving

Find out more about our work with government

understanding giving

Our research programme supports our campaigns by investigating and increasing understanding of charitable giving and philanthropy. We provide free research and analysis that helps to influence the decisions of charities, companies, donors, policy-makers, researchers and journalists. Our unique UK Giving research and CAF World Giving Index are among the most influential pieces of charity research published annually. Visit CAF's Research hub today.

UK Giving

CAF's UK Giving report is the largest study of giving behaviour in the UK. This year UK Giving is bigger and better with over 12,000 people interviewed across the UK, allowing us to look in more detail than ever before at patterns of giving.

Questions we ask include: Which causes are people are donating to in the UK? How much and how often are they donating? Do people trust charities to do the good work they promise?

Read the UK Giving 2018

In the last 12 months, have you given to charity by any of these methods?

CAF World Giving Index

Now in its ninth year, the renown CAF World Giving Index looks at charitable behaviour around the world and shares insights into the nature of giving and trends in global generosity.

See which countries are the most generous, as we reveal where 146 countries rank for three giving areas: donating money, volunteering and helping a stranger.

Read the World Giving Index 2018

latest comment and insight from our blogs

We regularly blog about trends in giving, and discuss how developments in society and technology can open up new opportunities for doing good across the world. Our think-tank, Giving Thought, is where we consider the key challenges facing civil society in the UK and globally, explore how and why people and companies give, and test radical new ideas that could shape the future of charity.

Our Public Affairs blog will keep you up to date with our views on the latest charity sector developments and give you our take on what’s happening in the world of government and politics.

22 March 2019

Our report on the 2019 Bond Annual Conference

There was a definite theme running through the annual Bond Conference which took place earlier this week focusing on the need to support the creation and development of locally led and resourced civil society.
13 March 2019

Spring Statement 2019: What does it mean for charities?

The Chancellor today delivered his light Spring Statement at a point in time when the political agenda is firmly fixed on Brexit.
1 March 2019

Do Androids Dream of Electric Donkey Sanctuaries: What you learn by training an AI system to name charities
This is a longer version of the article about our experiments training an AI system to name charities that appeared in Charity Digital News (with a bit more technical detail).
27 February 2019

What happens when you ask an AI bot to come up with charity names?
Through a light-hearted experiment, Rhodri Davies shows that even the smallest charities can play with AI bots without needing specialist knowledge or breaking the bank. This article first appeared in Charity Digital News.