The number of benefactors who have been forced to close their doors have increased by 74 percent this year with increased living costs, financial aid and increased national employer insurance.
This part of the fear that people in need are without vital support, with Akfam’s warning that charities “are asked to do more with less, at the same moment people need more.”
There are also concerns that government employment salaries, which require charities to guarantee hours of zero -hour employees and pay for cancellation, can increase charity budgets, causing more bankruptcy.
Oxfam, who announced in April, has put a “difficult decision” to put 265 of its 2100 employees at risk, now warned that charities have been asked to work less, at the same moment people need more. ”
The number of important British benefactors, as those who reached more than 50 pounds in 2024/25, increased from 87 in 2023/24, based on charity commission data analyzed by LUBBOCH FINE CURRES.
The company said increased bankruptcy reflects a “triple blow” of rising employment costs, stopping financial aid and reducing government funding.
Increasing closure while demand for services such as food banks and counseling programs is increasing, leaving more vulnerable people without basic support.
Earlier this year, MacMillan’s cancer support announced that it has besieged a quarter of its employees, reduced its phone line and reduced its flagship financial problems, providing millions of pounds to thousands of patients.
Charity Assistance Foundation data suggests that there are four million individual donors since 2019, while cash donations from British jobs have fallen by about £ 300 million this year compared to the past, equivalent to about 5,455 small charities that are awkward.
A spokesman for Oxfam said Independent: “Societies around the world face unprecedented needs, from conflict to climate change to increasing inequality.
“Increasing the cost of living and higher national insurance assistance adds to this pressure, and the decline in the future with the UK’s risk of deepening the crisis eliminates the vital life for those who live in poverty,” he said.
“Help a clever investment in stability, security and opportunity for all of us. When global challenges grow, Britain must seek to strengthen its support for civil society, not to restore it.”
Hazra Patel, a charity specialist at Lubbock Fine, said Independent: “Charities in the UK are experiencing an increasing burden and many of them have no choice but to close their doors.
“This is a warning process because it takes people without the vital support of the charity.”
“Employment costs on different fronts are increasing and forcing benefactors to reduce employees and reduce operations only to survive,” he said.
“Increasing costs and aid stopped, damaging the benefactors, and government policy provides little support. Many of this sector fear that they will have to go back or close in general.”
In May, Trussell Trust had a sharp increase in the number of emergency food packages distributed throughout the UK showed a 51 percent increase over the past five years.
The charity delivered nearly 2.9 million packets of emergency food in March 2025, which is a significant jump of 1.9 million distributed in the year to March 2020. This increase has led to urgent demands for government intervention and re -evaluation of welfare reform policies.
