Exclusive: Britain’s wealthy give away £12.4bn, but with ‘highly varied’ degrees of generosity
Barclays Private Bank identified the most and least generous cohorts within the UK's HNW population
November 12, 2026
Jack Womack
Jack Womack is a freelance journalist and a contributor to Spear's. He was previously a reporter at Law.com; his writing has appeared in The Day, the Oxford Review of Books and Cherwell, Oxford's oldest student-run newspaper.
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