April 2009 - Increasing Concern over Sector Impact of Economic Downturn


The Charity Commission's latest Economic Survey of Charities, following up one conducted in September, has found that 52% of charities surveyed said that they had been hit by the credit crunch, compared with 38% previously, but only 3% of charities had considered collaborating with another charity and 3% had considered merging.

Read the main results in the news item at http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/news/downturn.asp,

or download the full research report (pdf, 204KB) from http://www.charitycommission.gov.uk/Library/common/downturn.pdf. Or Charity Finance news item, http://www.charityfinance.co.uk/home/content.php?id=2664.

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