A Lot of Give: Trends for Charitable Giving in the 21st Century (Charities Aid Foundation) (Hardcover)

Dr. Catherine Walker is Senior Researcher with CAF Research, which she joined in 1999. Since joining she has been heavily involved in CAF's programme of monitoring the impact of the charity tax review and subsequent changes to tax-effective charitable giving, especially the new Gift Aid scheme.

While at CAF Catherine also carried out the first survey of UK business leaders' involvement with charities, which was a collaborative project with Deloitte & Touche and involved senior figures in UK business. Her other current research interests include a psychological investigation of donor motivations, household decision making in giving to charity, how donors make use of the internet, and young people's engagement with charity. These projects involve liaison with academic, corporate and government partners. Catherine is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Economic Psychology and member of the Scientific Committee for the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology.

Selected publications:

Walker, C. (1999) Just a hippy with a weekly wage? The ethical consumer and other economic anomalies. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), 1999.

Walker, C. (1999) Tax-effective giving – a gold rush waiting to happen or stuck in the mud? Article in NGO Finance, November 1999.

Walker, C. & Pharoah, C. (2000) Making time for charity: A survey of top business leaders' involvement with voluntary organisations. Kent, UK: Charities Aid Foundation

Walker, Young & Burgoyne. A charitable disposition? Exploring the motivations for giving to charity. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), 2000.

Pharoah, C. & Walker, C. (2000) Increasing individual giving to charities: (How) do tax incentives work? Some conflicting evidence from the UK and the US. Paper presented at the ISTR conference 2000.

Walker, C. (2001) Gift Aid 1990 - 2000. Briefing paper, Dimensions Online.

Walker, C. (2001) Donations and dishwashers: domestic decision-making in donating to charity. Paper presented at the annual conference of the International Association for Research in Economic Psychology (IAREP), September 2001.

Walker, C. (2001) Giving to charity in the 21st Century - a hobby, a lifestyle or a duty? Paper presented at the Institute of Chartered Fundraising Managers (ICFM) Scotland conference, October 2001.

Cathy Pharoah is Director of Research at CAF where she has worked since 1995. She is responsible for managing a wide programme of market research for CAF as well as producing CAF's authoritative statistics on the voluntary sector, particularly in relation to tax-effective giving, which are disseminated through the annual publication Dimensions of the Voluntary Sector as well as online.

With the research team, Cathy co-ordinates and publishes a sector-wide research programme, publishing research reports, articles and think-pieces on topics including tax-effective giving, donor profiles, corporate philanthropy, partnerships, social enterprise, ethical investment and cost benchmarking. This wide-ranging and expert programme of work has placed CAF Research at the cutting edge of voluntary sector research over the last five years. Cathy is responsible for initiating collaboration with academic departments, government and corporate sponsors in furthering CAF's research. She is a visiting member of staff at Henley Management College Centre for Voluntary Sector Management? and on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing & others??. [Emma: to come; will have to wait until the great guru returns from China, I'm afraid.]

Selected publications:

Pharoah, C. et al. (Eds.) Dimensions of the Voluntary Sector (1996-2000)

Pharoah, C. (1997) A delicate balance: A survey of financial management in the voluntary sector. Kent, UK: Charities Aid Foundation.

Knight, B., Smerdon, M. & Pharoah, C. (Eds.) (1998) Building Civil Society. Kent, UK: Charities Aid Foundation.

Pharoah C, Romney-Alexander D, Kemp K, Smerdon M (1998) Achieving the double bottom line: a study of the voluntary and community sector in regeneration partnerships. CAF Research Report Series, Charities Aid Foundation, UK, ISBN 1-85934-091-1.

Mocroft, I., Pharoah, C. & Romney-Alexander, D. (1999) Healthy relationships: a survey of London health authorities' and trusts' support of the voluntary sector. Charities Aid Foundation, UK, ISBN 1-85934-110-1

Pharoah, C. (Ed.) Dimensions 2000 Series (volumes 1-3). Kent, UK: Charities Aid Foundation 2000.

Pharoah, C. & Street, S. Dimensions 2000: An update on CAF's Top 500 Fundraising Charities. Kent, UK: Charities Aid Foundation 2001.

Pharoah, C. & Mocroft, I. (2001) Coming full circle: The role of charitable funds in London's health. With support from Guy's and St. Thomas' Charitable Foundation and the King's Fund. Kent, UK: Charities Aid Foundation.

Pauline Jas has been a research officer with NCVO since 1999. In the past three years she has been working on a wide variety of subjects within the voluntary sector. She manages the NCVO/NOP survey, which is the main measurement tool of charitable donations by individuals in Britain and is responsible for its analysis and dissemination. She is also involved with research based on the individual giving data set NCVO has built up over the years (1995 – now) that involves consortia of other leading charities, such as the Donations Foresight project. Pauline is also instrumental in work surrounding NCVO's major research publication the UK Voluntary Sector Almanac, which presents a comprehensive analysis of the economic contribution of the voluntary sector.

Pauline has worked extensively with the research team from the Charities Aid Foundation and the Inland Revenue in monitoring the effects of the tax reliefs on the level of charitable giving in Britain. She is also a member of the Giving Campaign Research Group. Pauline's other research interests include motivations for giving in collaboration with academics from various universities, work on partnership at work, impact of the National Minimum Wage on the sector, social capital, diversity and employment policies.

Selected publications:
Jas, P. (2000) A Gift Relationship? Charitable giving in theory and practice. London: NCVO Publications.
NCVO 1999. Charitable giving: stability or stagnation? Research Quarterly 6. London: NCVO.
NCVO 2000. Coming apart--or coming together Research Quarterly 11. London: NCVO.
NCVO 2001. Charitable giving – the tide has turned The fall and rise of charitable giving 1995-2000 Research Quarterly 13. London: NCVO.
Passey, A., Hems, L & Jas, P. (2000) The UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2000. London: NCVO Publications.

Andrew Passey heads the Value Added team at the Office for National Statistics, which is responsible for maximising the use of new and existing ONS data across government and beyond. He was previously head of research at the National Council for Voluntary Ogranisations, where his role was to design, develop and seek funding for research projects to progress the objectives of NCVO in promoting the effectiveness and efficiency of the voluntary sector in the UK. He developed a programme of research to monitor charitable giving in Britain, working in partnership with a number of fundraising charities. Much of these data provide the backdrop for A Lot of Give.

While at NCVO, Andrew led NCVO's Third Sector Foresight research programme, which involves strategic analysis and planning, and is undertaken in partnership with the senior management of a range of voluntary organisations. Andrew's key research interests at NCVO were: issues of public trust and confidence in voluntary organisations; a programme of strategic planning research in the voluntary sector; voluntary organisations and knowledge management; and measuring the economic and social impacts of the sector. Andrew has experience of undertaking and managing quantitative and qualitative research, including international projects funded by the Commonwealth Foundation. He has written for the voluntary sector, policy and academic audiences.

Selected publications:

1997. Charitable Giving in GB 1996 NCVO Publications, London. [with L. Hems].
1998. The UK Voluntary Sector Almanac NCVO Publications, London. [with L. Hems].
1999. ‘'Trust, the Voluntary Sector and Civil Society'. International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, Vol.19 (7/8). [with N. Fenton and L. Hems].
1999. 'Trust, Confidence and Voluntary Organisations: between values and institutions.' Sociology May 1999. [with F. Tonkiss]
2000. The UK Voluntary Sector Almanac 2000 [with P. Jas and L. Hems] London: NCVO.
2000. Joint Working and Mergers in the Voluntary Sector. London: NCVO [with D. Leat].
2000. Trust and Civil Society. (Joint Editor, with F. Tonkiss) London: Macmillan.

Debbie Romney-Alexander is Research Manager at CAF Research, having joined CAF in September 1997. Since joining CAF, Debbie has been project manager for a number of research projects including The Local Authority/Voluntary Sector Partnerships project, an internal evaluation of CAF's Grantmaking Trust, ethical investment research, large-scale payroll-giving research and internal client research looking at giving trends. She has also worked on a number of other projects including the survey of London health authority support for the voluntary sector, research for the Charities Tax review, monitoring the effects of the tax changes, and individual giving.

Debbie's particular area of interest is payroll giving, and she has presented her payroll-giving research at conferences in the UK and internationally. She is currently working on another large-scale payroll-giving project, to monitor any changes in payroll giving since the implementation of the changes to charity taxation.

Selected publications:

Pharoah C, Romney-Alexander D (1998) Financial outcomes for the voluntary sector. Presented at the NCVO Research Conference, Loughborough, September, 1998.

Pharoah C, Romney-Alexander D (1998) Do the sector and local authorities get along? Presented at the CAF Annual Conference, London, October, 1998.

Pharoah C, Romney-Alexander D (1999) Payroll giving - a time for change? NGO Finance, 9, September 7th 1999.

Pharoah C, Romney-Alexander D (1999) Achieving the double bottom line: a study of the voluntary and community sector in regeneration partnerships. Presented at the ARNOVA Conference, Washington USA, November 1999.

Pharoah C, Romney-Alexander D, Walker C (1999) Changing lifestyles and giving - trends in giving patterns. Presented at Tomorrow: the charities' annual conference and exhibition, October 1999, London.

Romney-Alexander DT. (1998) Investing for a cleaner, safer, fairer world : research study to assess the interest in a proposed sustainable growth/ethical investment fund. Internal research report, CAF.

Romney-Alexander D (2000) Payroll giving in the UK: factors affecting workplace giving. Presented at the Association for Research on Nonprofit Organisations and Voluntary Action (ARNOVA) conference, New Orleans, November 2000.

Romney-Alexander D (2001) Payroll giving in the UK: donor incentives and influences on giving behaviour. International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing. (In press)

Romney-Alexander D (2001) Payroll Giving 1999-2001. Briefing paper, Dimensions Online.

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