How much in the £????

It is not quite that simple: Age UK also do a lot of information work, for example, and I don't know if that would be regarded as 'charitable'.

By all means interrogate the accounts of any charities you wish to support, but do bear in mind that there is a cost to raising money (and for less popular causes there are few alternatives to paying for fundraising), and there is a cost to keeping charities well run.

If you want to donate to charity, research first. I don't donate to charities that have highly paid CEOs, although I have no objection to averagely paid staff (and trained staff can be invaluable to a charity's work).



I prefer smaller, local charities personally, as I have had involvement with them.


Also, it's worth bearing in mind that some charities would love you to volunteer a regular few hours a month.

This is quite useful but not complete


http://charitychecker.net/


I note that 65% of donations going to the work is considered "Poor" though.

antrobus wrote: »

The Charity Commission numbers for financial year ending 31 March 2017 are here

Income from Donations and legacies £53.16m
Expenditure on Charitable activities £73.19m

So, even at the simplest level 100p in every pound given to AgeUK is spent on charitable activities. (Note, AgeUK gets a lot of income from its trading activities.)

What puzzles me is how people can believe complete and utter b..., err, nonsense, when five minutes on Google gets you too something close to the truth.

You can also read what their accounts say about what the national charity spend their money on

I suspect that the twonk (not the OP) who claimed that "figures reveal that Age.uk give 5p", had some idiotic idea that AgeUK solely exists to 'give' money to OAPs, when it spends most of its money on doing other things; Person-Centred Integrated Care, providing benefits advice, etc and so forth.

That's not correct either, that is a beta site that isn't working correctly yet, you can see the discrepancy if you look at the actual figures, the 100% is clearly wrong/misleading based on the data above it. I think it's showing expenditure of their net income, so the income left to spend after they have spent on non-charitable activities?

You quoted;
Income from Donations and legacies £53.16m
Expenditure on Charitable activities £73.19m
But you omitted;
Income from Other trading activities £93.83m (and a few smaller incomes)

£149.7 million income, £73.19m expenditure on charitable activities.
They spend £5.91m on fundraising and £70.66m "other" which is predominantly the cost of running the shops and £782k governance.

So in rough numbers, Age UK spend approximately 50% on charitable activities which you can see on the non-beta Charity Commission website (can't post the link because I'm new but Google Charity Commission and go to the full site not the beta.

I think this whole thread illustrates that it's way to difficult for people to understand how charities are spending money. Charities should be obligated to very clearly show their charitable spending percentage on their website and marketing material. There also needs to be some guidance/control on what percentage you have to spend on charitable activities.