The authors would like to thank the editor and three anonymous reviewers for their detailed and critical comments on the paper. David Clifford and Vernon Gayle provided valuable methodological insight on the research design. We are indebted to the teams at Popchange and the National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) for providing us with high quality data relating to local authorities and charities respectively. PopChange was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) under the Secondary Data Analysis Initiative (SDAI), Phase 2 (project ES/L014769/1). Finally, this research has benefited enormously from the generous support of the Leverhulme Trust, through a Research Project Grant (ref: RPG-2017-102). Any remaining errors and shortcomings are the sole responsibility of the authors.