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liverpool It is the UK’s most generous city this year, according to data from a fundraising platform.
gofundme given place Merseyside The city has topped its list for the second year running, based on data on the number of donors and population.
Liverpool’s top fundraising appeal was for baby Sienna-Rose Milne, whose family needed to raise more than £100,000 to pay for a private medical flight after she collapsed during a holiday in Mexico.
Elsewhere in Merseyside, more than £370,000 was raised for a new playground for Churchtown Primary School, in memory of nine-year-old Alice da Silva Aguiar and six-year-old Babe King, who died along with seven-year-old Elsie Dot Stancombe. southport Knife attack on July 29 last year.
The fundraiser was the fourth largest campaign on crowdfunding platforms in 2025.
Tim Cadogan, chief executive of GoFundMe, said: “We’ve seen people across the UK help each other in extraordinary ways this year, and Liverpool taking the top spot once again is testament to the generosity of its community.”
Glasgow came second and London third in the most liberal city rankings published on Thursday, while Cardiff and Bristol came fourth and fifth.
Norwich came in sixth place and Manchester in seventh place, while Belfast was eighth in the list and Edinburgh was ninth.
Wrexham in north Wales has featured in GoFundMe’s top 10 most generous cities for the first time following a campaign by mother Jasmine Roberts, who needed to raise £1.5 million for her one-year-old son Ollie to undergo heart surgery in the US.
Once the fundraising goal is met, Ollie is scheduled to undergo surgery at Stanford Children’s Hospital in California in January.
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The campaign was the largest fundraiser globally this year by the number of donations and was backed by the Hollywood actor and co-chairman of Wrexham AFC. Ryan ReynoldsWho donated £10,000.