The impact of your donation varies greatly between charities. The Good Giving List provides reliable and independent recommendations about charities to support, identified using independent and high-quality evidence.
The Good Giving List makes it easy for you, as a donor, to find and support UK charities that run effective programmes.
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Who we are
The Good Giving List is created by Giving Evidence, an independent organisation which encourages and enables effective charitable giving, based on sound evidence.
Giving Evidence created the Good Giving List to independently recommend to the public UK charities which run programmes which research shows work.
Questions you may have:
Do you receive funds from charities or donors?
Giving Evidence has no financial relationship with any of the charities recommended by the Good Giving List. Charities cannot pay to be considered, and do not pay to be included: Giving Evidence takes no cut of donations that you make to them. Our process for identifying charities to recommend is explained briefly here, and in full detail here.
The Good Giving List was created by Giving Evidence, using a grant from a charitable foundation which wishes to be anonymous.
Thanks to
Many people have worked with Giving Evidence and advised us along the way of creating this. They include those listed below – though we have probably forgotten some! We are grateful to them all.
They include: Eleanor Stringer, Dr Sorayya Khan, Donna Elliot, Dinah Lamming and Giving Evidence’s advisory group. Also to the various Evidence Producers whose research we have used.
How can I be a part of the Good Giving List?
If you are interested in becoming a partner – as an Evidence Producer, or to fund expansion of this work, or to publicise the value of giving based on evidence, or to use the recommendations in your own giving – please get in touch