Can the UK’s culture of giving be reinvigorated?

In a speech in 2023, Keir Starmer promised “a decade of national renewal” should he become prime minister. A year later, CAF’s former CEO Neil Heslop said a crucial aspect of this would be the renewal of “our British culture of giving”.

In the past, the UK often ranked among the most generous nations for charitable giving, boasting of a culture of giving embedded in its history and woven into its society’s fabric.