AuroraSaab
Squire
I've had a quick look at the survey and it's not that enlightening as there's no context for which charities were asked for responses, other than their incomes. A charity like the National Trust, or a large charity whose role is almost entirely campaigning rather than doing practical stuff, might feel very differently to a small animal charity whose income is £11k and they spend it all feeding cats.
Understandably the survey is anonymous, but unless you know which groups were asked it's a bit meaningless. I would imagine Stonewall are feeling a bit more under scrutiny at the moment than the St Mary Meade Village Hall Restoration Fund for example.
Likewise, there are various reasons why contributions to charities would increase - it's not necessarily the public backlash against anti-wokeness. Many will have stopped their membership of the National Trust during covid and lockdown so you'd need to compare numbers now to pre-covid to see whether memberships had really increased.
Likewise the RNLI. As I recall, they are entirely self-funding and nobody thinks of those volunteer crew as anything other than selfless heroes. Farage's comments will have simply put them in the spotlight for a while and I don't think the increase in contributions is necessarily a backlash against the 'war on woke'.
It's only right that charities should be under public scrutiny. Many of them deal with huge sums of money and are not transparent in either their finances or their dealings with government. I only wish the Charities Commission had the time and staff to ensure that the sector was properly run.
