2026 YourCause UK CSR Industry Spotlight

Where does your CSR programme actually stand?

Insights from the 3rd Annual UK Spotlight with benchmarking data from 120+ companies

Each year, we release our industry spotlight to help CSR leaders understand how employee engagement and corporate social responsibility programmes are growing and changing within their region.

How this report comes to life:

We use data from companies using CSRconnect® and GrantsConnect®, to bring you the most comprehensive view of the corporate impact space using real platform activity. These findings represent a subset of our entire client and employee population with UK employees and evaluate programme data from January – December 2025.

Our goal is to share tangible benchmarking data and identify measurable shifts in philanthropic behaviour, to help you make more informed decisions about your programme strategy.

What you’ll learn:

• Where employee participation is increasing and where it is quietly declining 

• How top-performing programmes are driving higher engagement without increasing budget 

• What’s changing in giving behaviour, and what that means for your strategy 

• The role of programme design, including ERGs, flexibility, and incentives, in driving results 

• Benchmarks by company size and industry, so you can see how your programme compares to your peers