UK charity 寄付s seen dropping for third year as 信用 拒絶する／低下するs
By Elena Berton
LONDON, May 7 (Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎) - Charity giving in Britain has dropped for the third 連続した year まっただ中に 深くするing 不信 in the wake of a 一連の sex スキャンダルs that have 激しく揺するd the 援助（する） 部門.
The number of people who give to charity 直接／まっすぐに or by sponsoring a friend or family member dropped to 65 パーセント in 2018 from 69 パーセント in 2016, the Charities 援助（する） 創立／基礎 said in its UK Giving 報告（する）／憶測 published on Tuesday.
"With three years' 価値（がある） of data, we can now see a （疑いを）晴らす 傾向 in people's charitable giving and it is 長，率いるd in a worrying direction," said Susan Pinkney, the 創立／基礎's 長，率いる of 研究.
いっそう少なく than half of 回答者／被告s - 48 パーセント - said they believed charities are 信頼できる, 負かす／撃墜する from 51 パーセント in 2016.
The 傾向 反映するs the 一連の 性の 乱用 and 基金ing スキャンダルs that have shaken the 援助（する） 部門 in the last year.
Charities have come under 激しい scrutiny since it 現れるd that Oxfam staff used 売春婦s in during a 救済 使節団 in Haiti, 誘発するing a スキャンダル that 広げるd to other 援助（する） organisations.
"If people 欠如（する） 信用, that means they worry that their hard-earned money is not 存在 井戸／弁護士席 spent when 寄付するd to charities," said Pinkney.
"This is a challenge that the entire charity 部門 needs to 取り組む 長，率いる on and find ways to 奮起させる people to give and 論証する to them that their money is making a difference."
Although より小数の people are 寄付するing, they are giving more, the 熟考する／考慮する 設立する. The total 量 given to charity in 2018 remained 大部分は the same as 2017 at 10.1 billion 続けざまに猛撃するs ($13.2 billion).
The 調査する, which covers data collected over three years between 2016 and 2018, is based on 月毎の interviews and 含むs a 年一回の total of more than 12,000 individual online interviews.
($1 = 0.7659 続けざまに猛撃するs) (報告（する）／憶測ing by Elena Berton, Editing by Claire Cozens. Please credit the Thomson Reuters 創立／基礎, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers that covers 人道的な news, women's and LGBT+ 権利s, human trafficking, 所有物／資産／財産 権利s, and 気候 change. Visit http://news.信用.org)
