Fewer charity closures during pandemic than in previous years

The pandemic did not prompt a spike in charity closures, but at the same time fewer new charities have been established, academics have found.

In the final report from a study about the impact of the pandemic on charities researchers found that there was in fact “a sudden drop in the level of dissolutions”, when normally during a crisis there is a sudden uptick in closures.

This appears to contradict surveys carried out in the early days of the pandemic, which warned of imminent closures.

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