“Kind-hearted people always want to help each other”: Salford named the UK’s 2nd highest fundraiser towards Ukraine support

Salford has been named the second most generous area in the UK for donations towards relief efforts in Ukraine

The fundraising site, GoFundMe, has revealed Salford holds the number two spot, with Manchester crowned as the UK’s most generous area.

Figures provided by the charitable site show that Salford is followed by Belfast, Edinburgh and Glasgow.

GoFundMe revealed that around £205 million has been raised for Ukraine across the platform in 2022, with more than 1.2 million donations.

The UK’s top three fundraisers were all Ukraine-related following Russia’s invasion in February.

In aid of the Association of Ukrainians, Britons donated more than £2.8 million to the campaign, which topped GoFundMe UK’s largest ever appeal.

On October 20, an update was posted on the fundraising page by team member Iryna Terlecky, who said a “significant milestone” had been achieved.

They said: “We have now delivered a full £1 million to each of our three partner organisations, AICM Ukraine, Caritas Ukraine, and the Ukrainian Red Cross Society, who are all working to relieve the suffering of people in Ukraine.”

Another fundraiser on the list, which aimed to “Keep Ukraine’s media going”, raised more than £960,000.

The GoFundMe data also revealed Ireland remains in the top spot as the most generous country followed by the US and UK, which is up one place from last year.

As the turn of the new year approaches, GoFundMe will be hoping for the donations to keep going up as the Ukraine conflict continues to rage on, after they saw one donation per second this year.

John Coventry from GoFundMe said: “The UK going up in the ranks for most generous countries was in part due to the huge response on our platform to the crisis in Ukraine, which was led by generous British donors.

“Despite the cost-of-living crisis, people are digging deep for people and causes they care about. What we’ve seen in 2022 is that, at times of crisis, kind-hearted people always want to help each other.”

Here is a reminder of the events that took place in the build up to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine: