{"id":433,"date":"2015-04-27T12:49:48","date_gmt":"2015-04-27T11:49:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/?p=433"},"modified":"2024-03-11T12:11:36","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T12:11:36","slug":"7-days-is-also-a-long-time-in-philanthropy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/philanthropy\/2015\/04\/27\/7-days-is-also-a-long-time-in-philanthropy\/","title":{"rendered":"7 days is also a long time in philanthropy"},"content":{"rendered":"

The political sphere\u00a0normally lays claim to a monopoly on momentum, with the oft-quoted line:\u00a0‘a week is a long time in politics’.\u00a0But the last 7\u00a0days have seen a huge amount of activity and new developments\u00a0for philanthropy in the UK.<\/p>\n

Firstly the\u00a02015 Beacon awards<\/a> were announced – including an extremely well deserved celebration of Trevor Pears<\/a>, whose family foundation has generously supported our newest colleague<\/a>, Pears Philanthropy Fellow\u00a0Dr Triona Fitton.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Jazmin Quaynor<\/a> on Unsplash<\/a><\/p>\n

Secondly, the annual Giving List<\/a>, published as part of the annual Sunday Times Rich List in association with CAF,\u00a0reported that\u00a0the richest members of our society collectively gave away \u00a32.6 billion last year, an 8% increase on the previous year, and including four people who gave away 9-figure sums (\u00a3100 million or more). Whilst the top spot on the main Rich List is now held by Len Blavatnik,\u00a0who made one of the UK’s biggest-ever donations in 2010 (\u00a375m to Oxford University<\/a>), another generous donor, Richard Ross, has ‘donated himself off the Rich List’<\/a> by giving so much away.<\/p>\n

Thirdly, a new academic centre has been launched at the LSE, which will help to advance the nascent field of philanthropic studies. All of us at Kent welcome the creation of\u00a0The Marshall Institute for Philanthropy and Social Entrepreneurship<\/a>\u00a0and congratulate the founders and donors, Paul Marshall and Sir Tom Hughes Hallett, who discuss the thinking behind their exciting initiative in this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Here’s hoping the next 7 days are full of even more positive news for UK philanthropy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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