![]() Royal patronages can create costs for charities. (Having been a charity CEO myself, I wrote an entire book for donors, about how charities really function and how donors can help them and avoid hindering them.) Equally, some well-intentioned programmes run by charities are great, some achieve nothing, and some are counter-productive and harmful. Some help a lot some create so much work that dealing with them consumes the entire donation, meaning that their net contribution is nil and some are even worse, creating a net drain. We investigated this mindful that some donors help charities much less than they think they do. The findings are summarised in this Twitter thread. Giving Evidence takes no view on the value of the Royal family generally. We could not find any evidence that Royal patrons increase a charity’s revenue (there were no other outcomes that we could analyse), nor that Royalty increases generosity more broadly. In short, we found that charities should not seek or retain Royal patronages expecting that they will help much.ħ4% of charities with Royal patrons did not get any public engagements with them last year. Giving Evidence today publishes research about Royal patronages of charities: what are they, who gets them, and do they help? This fits within our work of providing robust evidence so that charities and donors can be as effective as possible. ![]() So presumably at least some of HMQ’s patronages – and possibly some of Prince/King Charles’ – will be redistributed (though it will be a bit difficult because the exits of Princes Philip, Harry & Andrew mean that there are fewer adult royals than previously.) It seems that the Royals decide amongst themselves: e.g., it was reported that Prince Andrew had returned some to the Queen to be redistributed. It is unclear how patronages are decided or how they are passed between Royals. They are disproportionately large charities. Giving Evidence’s data and analysis below show the types of charities of which the Royals are patrons. So we had to construct that list: it took us about six person-weeks.) The charities of which HMQ was patron are listed here. (The information published by the Royal Family about “charities and patronages” (their term) was incomplete, inconsistent and sometimes just wrong. ![]() Giving Evidence found that Her Majesty was patron of 198 UK registered charities. They were not all charities: many were parts of the military, cities, trade guilds etc. A note about Royal charity patronages re the passing of HM Queen Elizabeth II:
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