Tsunami appeals take £48m from UK causes

Third Sector, 14 December 2005

The tsunami appeal cost other UK charitable causes around £48m, the latest individual giving figures for 2004/05 reveal.

The figure is the most definitive yet on the degree to which the UK voluntary sector lost money because of the tsunami. According to UK Giving 2004/5, a survey that is out this week, people gave an average of £5.04 to tsunami appeals. Of this, about £4 was money they...

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