Most businesses “do nothing” to support charities, according to research from the Charities Aid Foundation (CAF), which surveyed 1,085 businesses and found that only 25% donated their time, cash, or goods to charities last year.
CAF estimated that from those businesses that did support charities around £4.2 billion was donated in 2024, with nearly half of this coming from FTSE 100 companies, but the number of FTSE 100 companies that gave at least 1% of their pre-tax profits to charities declined to 24 last year, down from 28 in the previous year, according to CAF’s corporate giving report 2025. Read more here.