Britain Has Higher Percentage of Donors Than Other European Countries
January 16, 2007 | Read Time: 1 minute
British investors are more likely to give to charities than their counterparts in continental Europe, reports Reuters.
A survey taken by the ABN Amro Asset Management group reports that 86 percent of British investors give money to charity, as opposed to a European average of 69 percent.
This gap is striking considering that only 56 percent of British donors have positive attitudes toward charity, compared with 66 percent of other European investors.
The article also reports that, in Britain, socially responsible investing—the offering of investment packages that consider the environmental and social impact of companies instead of solely their financial potential—is poised to grow to $84-billion by 2008, an increase of $26-billion from 2005.
