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GENERATION OF GIVERS SHOW THEIR GENEROUS NATURE |
26/06/03 |
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online viral campaign of 11-16 year olds has revealed that, if given £500
free, one in ten would donate it all to charity.
Commissioned by Giving Nation, a new drive to get more young people involved
with charity, the study asked the teenagers to choose between spending all
the money on themselves, giving it to charity or dividing it between the
two.
None of the 558 11-16 year olds surveyed voted to keep all the money for
themselves and the most popular choice was to split it equally between charity
and themselves.
Other findings included that Northern Ireland has the most generous 11-16
year olds, and Scotland the least, 14-year-olds are the most generous of
the age range, and
16-year-olds the least, while the majority of voters would divide the £500
equally.
Andy Thornton, youth campaign manager, Giving Nation said: "The next generation
are already proving to be givers and are on the whole more generous and
than they are typically being given credit for. We're impressed to see that
when it comes to free money that greed has not taken over and that they
would happily give away as much as they would spend on themselves."
The survey results have been released to coincide with G-Week (23 - 27 June),
the first national charity week in secondary schools.
More than 180 UK secondary schools are taking part and more than half of
all UK secondary schools are participating in the year-round Giving Nation
campaign including the school awards programme where they could be eligible
for £1,000 and/or a once in a lifetime overseas trip to see charity projects
in action.
Find out more about G-Nation at www.g-nation.co.uk
or telephone 020 7930 3154. Closing date for the awards
scheme is 18th July 2003. Awards winners to be announced in September 2003.
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