45% of small charities working in international development are forecasted to close within the next 12 months.
A survey by the Small International Development Charities Network shows that despite nearly three quarters of small international development charities seeing demand for their services increase, funding opportunities are rapidly disappearing. The announcement to merge DFID and FCO was a blow to these important charities, and the hundreds of thousands they serve. The future of small international development charities became all the more uncertain when, on the last day of Parliament before recess, Dominic Raab announced a £2.9 billion cut to the UK’s global aid budget.