Charities get more than £2bn a year from trusts

By Ben Cook, Third Sector Online, 11 October 2007

The top 400 UK trusts give £2.3bn to charities every year, according to new research.

The latest edition of A Guide to the Major Trusts , published by the Directory of Social Change, shows that the top 25 trusts alone gave £959m to charities in 2005/06, the latest year for which figures are available. The amount given by the top 25 trusts increased almost three-fold...

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