{"id":148574,"date":"2026-11-05T17:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148574"},"modified":"2026-11-05T17:47:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-05T22:47:06","slug":"church-times-legacies-that-change-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148574","title":{"rendered":"(Church Times) Legacies that change the world"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Is generosity in Britain a thing of the past? A report from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), <em>UK Giving Report 2026<\/em>, published in March, suggests that both donation levels and the number of people giving are falling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In 2025, the British public donated an estimated \u00a314 billion, a 9.1-per-cent decrease from \u00a315.4 billion in 2024 \u2014 the first decrease in giving since 2021, the report states. The decrease is driven by lower average donations in 2025 of \u00a365, down from \u00a372 in 2024. The report\u2019s findings are based on responses from 12,913 over-16s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Nevertheless, research specifically into the trends of legacy giving suggests a more positive outlook. The director of Remember A Charity, Lucinda Frostick, says that research shows \u201ca really slow, steady, positive increase in the proportion of people choosing to leave a gift in their will\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.churchtimes.co.uk\/articles\/2026\/30-october\/features\/features\/legacies-that-change-the-world\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p><blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&#x1f397;&#xfe0f; As global economic conditions hit charitable giving, the significance of legacies for charities and churches needs to be better understood \u2014 and talked about, &#x270d;&#xfe0f; Amelia Braddick #Features  #ChurchTimes  https:\/\/t.co\/licTByPzro<\/p>\u2014 Church Times (@ChurchTimes) <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ChurchTimes\/status\/2118465731494908218?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 5, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.x.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is generosity in Britain a thing of the past? A report from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), UK Giving Report 2026, published in March, suggests that both donation levels and the number of people giving are falling. In 2025, the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=148574\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,199,119,108,441],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-148574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charitiesnon-profit-organizations","category-england-uk","category-globalization","category-religion-culture","category-stewardship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=148574"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148577,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148574\/revisions\/148577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=148574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=148574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=148574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}