Saunvedan Aparanti


Communications Officer

NCVO

London

http://www.cgap.org.uk
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I work on a project called CGAP - Centre for Charitable Giving and Philanthropy part-time at NCVO. The rest of the week, I write for Greenpeace UK and am involved in various environmental and human rights campaigns.


<>The UK Giving 2009 report was released last week. Everyone was keen to know how charitable giving had suffered/coped in face of the worst recession in recent memory. Launching the UK Giving report last year just around the time that the recession had officially begun, we were preparing ourselves for questions on how charities would survive the ‘black hole’ in charitable giving that was about to come. Obviously, media commentators had assumed that the economic recession would suddenly lead...