Charity: Multiple Choice Grammar Test

Thirty new charities (1) _____________ up every day, on average, in England and Wales. Most of them begin around (2) ____________ family kitchen table. There are, today, 164,108 charities in this country. Small charities are"the lifeblood" of a sector of the economy with a total annual income of £ 64 bn- rather (3) ______________ the defence budget. Other charity chiefs (4) ______________, in the past, criticized the creation of new charities, suggesting that their founders should look first to (5) _______________ charities working in the same field. I once said something similar to a friend who wanted to set up a charity digging wells in India, in memory of her son who (6) _______________. Her reaction taught me that there is more to charity than economic efficiency. (7) ______________ first charity law – the Statute of Charitable Uses 1601 – set out the areas in which (8) _______________ wanted to encourage private giving: religion, education, the relief of poverty and the care of (9) _______________. They are still the main areas of our charitable focus, with the challenges of different eras adding (10) _______________ such as medical research, the environment and international aid.

by Paul Valley