Telegraph: Bedford has been named the most generous town in the UK based on donations given through charity site JustGiving.
Big-hearted residents in the Bedfordshire county town have been recognised with the title for their outstanding charitable contributions.
A total of 41,631 people with a Bedford postcode donated £1,145,970 to charitable causes on the JustGiving site in the year to May 2014.
The analysis ranked towns and cities according to donations for number of givers compared to the local population.
Bedford’s donations equated to 52 per cent of the town’s overall population, according to JustGiving.
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