Britain's richest people increasingly involved in charitable giving | Society | The Guardian

Britain's richest people increasingly involved in charitable giving | Society | The Guardian: "According to this year's Sunday Times rich list, the 1,000 wealthiest people in the UK are collectively worth over £412.8bn, a rise of nearly 15% since 2007. And as personal wealth has grown, so has their desire to give it away. In Britain, where the average person gives £150 a year to charity, the top 30 philanthropists last year committed to donate £2.38bn. While that figure may be dwarfed by the generosity of philanthropists in the US - where last year the top 30 promised £5.47bn - the amount is more than five times that donated by Britain's rich elite in 2006."