Philanthropists should get on and give

The writer is chief executive of New Philanthropy Capital, a think-tank and consultancy

The cost of living crisis in Britain is just as big a threat to livelihoods as Covid-19. Many more people need help, yet charities find it harder to support them as inflation increases their own costs and erodes the value of reserves and pre-pledged donations.

We need the same kind of mobilisation among charitable funders as at the start of the…