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Charity AI Survey 2026
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1.
What is your annual income?
Less than £10k
£11k to £100k
£100k - £500k
£501k - £1m
£1m - £3m
More than £3m
2.
What is your role?
Trustee or board member
Management
Staff member
Volunteer
Other (please specify)
3.
How does your charity view AI, from 1 (strongly disagree) to 10 (strongly agree)
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10
It's not relevant to our work
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2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
It's just another new technology
1
2
3
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5
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8
9
10
It will bring substantial change but only in the future
1
2
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10
We cannot afford to be left behind
1
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8
9
10
It's a major opportunity for us
1
2
3
4
5
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8
9
10
4.
In general, which best describes your organisation’s current stance on AI?
Exploring (curious, learning, no formal use)
Experimenting (some use in pockets, not standardised)
Implementing (approved tools/policies, growing use)
Embedded (AI is integrated into job roles/systems)
Avoiding (we’ve decided not to use AI for now)
Not sure
5.
For each group below, rate how they view your organisation using AI from 1 (strongly against) to 10 (strongly in favour)
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10
Trustees/Board
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Management Team
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Staff
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Volunteers
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Beneficiaries
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Wider charity community
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
6.
For those who are most resistant, what is it they object to most?
7.
Rate each statement below from 1 (strongly disagree) to 10 (strongly agree)
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10
We are concerned about energy use
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
We are concerned about the ethics of creativity and copyright
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
We are concerned about data protection breaches
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
It won't save us any time
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
It won't enable us to achieve any more
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
We don't know what the benefits in using AI are
1
2
3
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5
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9
10
We don't know what the costs in using AI are
1
2
3
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8
9
10
We don't have the funding to be able to afford it
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
We don't know enough to know if it'd be useful or not
1
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3
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5
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8
9
10
We don't know how to manage it effectively
1
2
3
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5
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8
9
10
We don't know how to use it safely
1
2
3
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5
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8
9
10
Our people are scared of using it
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Our people don't know how to use it properly
1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
9
10
We tried it but couldn't make it work well
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
It makes too many mistakes to be able to trust it
1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
9
10
Using it creates unacceptable risks
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
We do not have the capacity to take on new systems
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
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What support do you most need to enable your organisation to make the most out of using AI?
9.
How could that support be most effectively provided to help you?
10.
Rate each area below in terms of how interested you'd be in using AI from 1 (not interested at all) to 10 (very interested)
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10
AI bots such as Copilot and Chat GPT
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
A bot for our website
1
2
3
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5
6
7
8
9
10
Using AI within mail, spreadsheets, etc
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Creating simple custom bots to use on our own data
1
2
3
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5
6
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8
9
10
Using AI within our CRM
1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
9
10
Using AI for our client database
1
2
3
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5
6
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10
Using AI with the finance team
1
2
3
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5
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10
Creating a whole organisation information and decision system
1
2
3
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10
Creating advanced agentic AI
1
2
3
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5
6
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8
9
10
Cyber security to protect against external threats
1
2
3
4
5
6
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8
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10
How to ensure our data is secure and compliant
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