Collapse in Justgiving donations to arts over past four years

Figures provided by the online funding platform to the BBC reveal there has been a 33% drop in giving to arts and culture, and a 10% increase in donations to poverty and health-related charities. Head of Business Intelligence at JustGiving, Natalie Stroud, told the BBC this may be because people are “looking at the cause types that have got more urgency”, and that the arts are possibly perceived as a luxury.