Research and analysis

Preventing charity fraud: insights and action

A research report about fraud committed against UK charities. It includes insights and actions to prevent fraud.

Documents

Preventing charity fraud: insights and action

Request an accessible format.
If you use assistive technology (such as a screen reader) and need a version of this document in a more accessible format, please email usability@charitycommission.gov.uk. Please tell us what format you need. It will help us if you say what assistive technology you use.

Details

In 2009 the Fraud Advisory Panel (supported by the Charity Commission) published Fraud in the charitable sector – at that time the most extensive charity fraud study undertaken in the UK.

Ten years on, the Commission (partnered by the Fraud Advisory Panel) repeated and extended the scope of that survey, contacting a representative sample of 15,000 registered charities across England and Wales.

With a 22% response rate, this is the largest ever analysis of fraud committed against UK charities.

Updates to this page

Published 21 October 2019

Sign up for emails or print this page