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Religious causes receive lion’s share of UK giving

FEWER people in the UK are donating money to charity, but people who do donate are giving larger amounts — the largest to religious causes, the latest UK Giving study has found

10 May 2019

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UK news in brief

Bristol Cathedral receives £1 million to restore organ; Barnabas Fund founder cleared of indecent assault; Curate in Rochester calls for end to “bed poverty”; Man in fifties arrested on suspicion of rape at Christian festival; Ecclesiastical celebrates 130 years by donating £130,000

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