Charities 'may be recovering from recession'

Charities may be witnessing the first signs of recovery in the sector and most donors have not stopped giving money, an expert has stated.

Jonathan Baker, a researcher with think tank, nfpSynergy, told the Edinburgh News that people are better able to assess how secure they are financially and "decide just how much money they are comfortable to donate to causes".

He added that "the dip in giving does at least seem to have flattened out over the past six months" and the number of enquiries about volunteering has increased, a fact that may interest charity insurance customers.

Recent data from nfpSynergy indicated that the number of Scots donating to charity fell by eight percentage points year-on-year in April and Mr Baker claimed that the recession had made people "philanthropically cautious".

The number of respondents to a poll that claimed they had donated to charity within the past six months dipped from 79 per cent in April 2008 to 71 per cent this year, with Scottish males and those aged between 35 and 64 most likely to have stopped.

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