Public trust in charities 2022
"Trust in charities remains higher than in most other parts of society – a reflection of the value the public thinks that charities can bring and have brought throughout the Covid pandemic. There is, however, a stubbornly persistent scepticism regarding how charities use their money and how they behave. This was true before the pandemic and is still true now. The charity sector still struggles to shrug off lingering doubts about the way it uses the funds that are entrusted to it. These doubts have little to do with the pandemic or with other institutions. Such scepticism is particularly acute in the low security, low diversity part of the public."
The public's trust in institutions across the board has been bruised in recent years and charities are doing as well as can be expected in the current climate.
Charities are second only to Doctors in the list of trusted groups/institutions:
Sector, Mean trust and confidence, Change since 2021
Doctors 7.2 -0.5 Charities 6.2 -0.2 Police 5.8 -0.8 Banks 5.6 -0.2 The ordinary man/ woman in the street 5.5 0.1 Social services 5.3 -0.5 Private companies 5.0 -0.3 Your local council 4.9 -0.6 Newspapers 3.9 -0.4 MPs 3.4 0.7 Government ministers 3.2 0.8
