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Arts Charities That specialise in Literature

Discover 1,562 Arts charities that specialise in literature. Use the search below to filter within these results.

1,562
Charities
£6,747,187,095
Total Income
£677,701
Avg Income
100.0%
Program Ratio

Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.

Bromley Borough Local History Society

Arts, Heritage

WE HOLD REGULAR MONTHLY MEETINGS WITH A SPEAKER ON TOPICAL SUBJECTS. WE PUBLISH A BBLHS MAGAZINE FOUR TIMES A YEAR AND WE HOLD AND ATTEND EXHIBITIONS. WE ALSO ANSWER WORLD WIDE QUERIES RELATING TO THE HISTORY OF BOROUGH OF BROMLEY

Latest Income: £3,474
Areas of Operation: Bromley
Status: Registered
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Women's Institute - Eastcombe

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Facilities

A monthly meeting held in the village hall. Listening to a variety of speakers on different subjects.Running courses for members. Arranging outings for members as well as a monthly lunch club, book club and craft and scrabble meetings.

Latest Income: £3,431
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Ross Educational Foundation

Arts, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing

Ross Educational Foundation offers grants to students up to the age of 25 whose homes are within the boundaries of Ross Urban or Ross Rural Parish Council. Grants are awarded for books, equipment, etc, to students following higher education courses & those learning professional or skilled trades. Students studying music & other arts may also apply.

Latest Income: £3,375
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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The Peter Greenwood Memorial Trust For Deaf People

Arts, Charitable activities, Health

The trust supports deaf people who wish to continue or return to study.It does this by making small cash grants to individuals, to buy books and equipment to support them in their studies, and to organisations that work with deaf people.

Latest Income: £3,339
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Sheldon Hutchinson Trust

Arts, Religion

Each year the charity makes a substantial grant amounting to all its income to the library of York Minster for the purchase of books on theology and church histroy.

Latest Income: £3,325
Areas of Operation: City Of York
Status: Registered
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The Talkin(reading Room And Library)village Hall

Arts, Facilities

COMMUNITY HALL

Latest Income: £3,308
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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British Society For The History Of Radiology

Arts, Heritage, Research

Education, training and research in to the History of Radiology mainly in the UK.Annual LectureRegular scientific journal publicationParticipation in conferencesOperation of a web site

Latest Income: £3,297
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Harry And Mavis Pilkington Foundation Fund For Arts And Leisure

Arts, Leisure

The Charity provides donations to help the advancement of education through the promotion of art, literature and music and to improve the appearance and amenities of the Borough of St Helens.The Charity fund constituted groups whose work benefits the residents of St Helens borough. e.g. the majority of the work done by the organisation benefits St Helens residents.

Latest Income: £3,263
Areas of Operation: St Helens
Status: Registered
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Friends Of The Willis Museum

Arts, Associations, Heritage

The 'Friends' was founded to promote, support, assist and improve The Willis Museum. We also support members & non members with local projects such as a book of local history or like interest. We have resources facilities for our members and museum staff, a collection of local maps, photographs & oral tapes of peoples memories.

Latest Income: £3,253
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Bedford And District Audio News

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Health

We are all volunteers who record the local news on tape every week for blind persons. We read and record on a Monday evening and our listeners receive a tape the next day. We also send out a magazine on tape 4 times a year.

Latest Income: £3,250
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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Scarborough Talking News For The Blind And Partially-Sighted

Arts, Health

Weekly recording of local news for the blind and partially sighted. Occasional audio magazine also produced.

Latest Income: £3,240
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Ramsbottom Heritage Society

Arts

Activities, meetings, issue of publications and film

Latest Income: £3,216
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Focus Christian Ministries Trust

Arts, Charitable activities, Religion

To promote the Protestant Reformed Christian Religion by means of education, printing, publishing and circulating Christian literature and helping other Christian Charities from time to time in line with Trustees' policy

Latest Income: £3,211
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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South Stoke Educational Charity

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education

This ancient charity is for the benefit of children and students residing in the ancient parish of South Stoke and Woodcote, who proceed through the state system of education. Children leaving primary school receive a book token, those proceeding to 6th form education receive a cheque. All at university receive a cheque every year.

Latest Income: £3,199
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Rudolf Steiner Book Trust

Arts

The charity working through its bookshop is committed to the task of disseminating the ideas of Rudolf Steiner to the general public as far as possible, and publishing where circumstances permit those of his works no longer available.

Latest Income: £3,188
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Pan-African Book Foundation

Arts, Economic and community development, Education

The mission of the Pan African Book Foundation, is to enhance the quality and standard of education in African rural schools through the provision of books and to promote works of African origin. We aim to collect under one roof all publications written by African people, which would include works written by people of African origin and also others.To promote and celebrate the works of Africa.

Latest Income: £3,161
Areas of Operation: Tanzania
Status: Registered
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Frederick Richter Memorial Fund

Arts, Education

To provide scholarships, prizes or awards for postgraduate research students undertaking research in Asian Art, literature or music.

Latest Income: £3,117
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Plainsong And Mediaeval Music Society

Arts, Heritage

Annual conference, supporting research, and publications.

Latest Income: £3,112
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Yarkhill Charities

Arts, Social welfare

Financial help to parishioners in need. Help for students residing in the parish with books, course work etc.Help for projects that will enhance the parish, e.g. benches, notice boards etc.

Latest Income: £3,104
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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St Luke's Charities

Arts, Health, Housing, Social welfare

Providing gifts of bedding, clothing, food, fuel, furniture, useful articles and gifts of money to relieve sickness, infirmity or distress.Payment of travelling expenses of persons entering/leaving hospital, convalescent homes or similar. Provision of tools, books, payment of fees for instructions or examination, traveling expenses or such other means as will assist persons preparing for work.

Latest Income: £3,084
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Cult Information Centre

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education

CIC Provides information and advice on Cults. It offers help to ex cult members, families of cult members and the general public. It assists students/researchers with bibliographies and other information for projects, academic papers and books.CIC gives talks to schools, colleges, universities, clubs, professional and religious groups. CIC maintains a reliable international network of contacts.

Latest Income: £3,076
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Bread Of Life Fellowship

Arts, Crime and Justice, Housing

Distributing Christian literature in this country, in prisons and abroad. Helping the homeless and persons with Addictions in the UK .

Latest Income: £3,066
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Jesus Is Alive Ministries

Arts, Religion

Advancing the christian faith and distribution of Christian literature.

Latest Income: £3,044
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Historic Society Of Lancashire And Cheshire

Arts, Education, Heritage

The society exists to promote the study of any aspect of the history of Lancashire and Cheshire. This is done through a series of public lectures and meetings, a grant scheme for research, schools and publications and the publication of an annual volume of transactions. The society's library is on open access to all who want to use it.

Latest Income: £3,040
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The London Lectures Trust

Arts

The advancement of the Christian religion by the promotion of Christian thought about contemporary issues through the giving of lectures and seminars, the holding of discussions, the showing of films and videotapes, and the publication and distribution of books, leaflets, magazines,articles,papers,films,videotapes and audio cassettes and by such other electronic media.

Latest Income: £3,039
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many literature arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 1,562 registered literature arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the literature arts charities by income?

Wellcome Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£569.5m). Notable peers are listed on this page; the full ranking is available by sorting the results by highest income.

What is the combined annual income of literature arts charities?

Literature arts charities reported a combined annual income of £6.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for literature arts charities?

Across all literature arts charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 100.0%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of literature arts charities?

Literature arts charities have an average annual income of £678k. The distribution is heavily skewed: a small number of large charities account for most sector income, while the majority report under £100k a year.

Where does this data come from?

All figures are sourced from the Charity Commission for England and Wales public register, refreshed weekly. Derived metrics (program ratio, efficiency) are calculated by Charity Finder using the formulas documented on the data sources page.