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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. This is because we have long been bothered by the fact that, though most of the funds donated by UK donors stays within the UK, there has to date been almost zero reliable public guidance for donors about which UK charities to support.

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

Related information:

Why care about evidence?
How the Good Giving List works
How we choose the charities we recommend
Our confidence in our recommendations
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