This statistic shows the most common ways* in which people donated money to charities in the United Kingdom (UK) in 2014, 2016 and 2018. Cash was the most commonly used method of donation in all three of these years, with more than half of those who had donated to charity using this method.
In the last 12 months, have you given to charity by any of these methods?
adults who had donated to charity in the previous 12 months
Supplementary notes
* As the question text, methodologies and sample sizes of these surveys changed on multiple occasions between 2014 and 2018, the source warns that it is not possible to make year on year comparisons.
** Sample sizes of surveys were:
- 3,237 respondents in 2014,
- 5,171 respondents in 2016,
- 7,788 respondents in 2018.
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Charities Aid Foundation. (May 6, 2019). In the last 12 months, have you given to charity by any of these methods? [Graph]. In Statista. Retrieved December 22, 2024, from https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036550/uk-methods-used-to-donate-to-charity/
Charities Aid Foundation. "In the last 12 months, have you given to charity by any of these methods?." Chart. May 6, 2019. Statista. Accessed December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036550/uk-methods-used-to-donate-to-charity/
Charities Aid Foundation. (2019). In the last 12 months, have you given to charity by any of these methods?. Statista. Statista Inc.. Accessed: December 22, 2024. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036550/uk-methods-used-to-donate-to-charity/
Charities Aid Foundation. "In The Last 12 Months, Have You given to Charity by Any of These Methods?." Statista, Statista Inc., 6 May 2019, https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036550/uk-methods-used-to-donate-to-charity/
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In the last 12 months, have you given to charity by any of these methods? [Graph], Charities Aid Foundation, May 6, 2019. [Online]. Available: https://www.statista.com/statistics/1036550/uk-methods-used-to-donate-to-charity/