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6,454
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.

James Menzies-Kitchin Memorial Trust

Arts, Education

The JMK Trust exists to find and support talented theatre directors around the UK through our annual JMK Young Director Award, National Programme and Assistant Director Bursaries. It presents the annual The James Menzies-Kitchin Young Director Award (The JMK Award) to one outstanding candidate following an open application process identified emerging theatre talent in the UK.

Latest Income: £40,814
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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York Philharmonic Male Voice Choir (fletcher Memorial Choir)

Arts, Beneficiary group

Developing the skills of choral music and presenting concerts for the financial benefit of charitable and community groups. Performances are mostly , but not exclusively, within the City of York and North Yorkshire

Latest Income: £40,715
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Norfolk Symphony Orchestra

Arts

We aim to encourage and educate able amateur musicians to participate in playing with a symphony orchestra. Each year we give several concerts for the enjoyment of the general public, and consideration is given to specific private engagements, both in Norfolk and surrounding counties.

Latest Income: £40,657
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Collegium Musicum Of London

Arts

MUSIC, THROUGH ACTIVITIES OF OUR CHAMBER CHOIR

Latest Income: £40,646
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Wentworth Association

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Education

The charity has raised money from various activities including Christmas Bazaar, Summer Fete, Childrens Discos, Shopping Trips, Quizz Nights, Film Nights. All these activities have helped to raise money for play equipment within the school.

Latest Income: £40,571
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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Basingstoke Symphony Orchestra

Arts

The orchestra comprises mainly amateur players who play to a very high standard. It currently performs three concerts a year in the Anvil Concert Hall, Basingstoke. The concert programmes include mostly popular classical music.

Latest Income: £40,562
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Sheffield Oratorio Chorus

Arts, Religion

We perform up to four major choral concerts a year, in Sheffield Cathedral and other venues. Member of Making Music. Currently around 85 singing members. We hold voice training workshops to improve the quality of our singing, and are exploring new ways to extend the range of our membership and reach new audiences.

Latest Income: £40,514
Areas of Operation: Sheffield City
Status: Registered
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Woolton Boys' Club

Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Leisure

We provide opportunities of play, education and other diversionary activities in the safe environment of our youth centre for young people aged 8 to 25 years, but prioritising our work with 13 to 19 year olds. Our work includes sport, art & craft, music & dance, group activities, residential trips and educational projects.

Latest Income: £40,494
Areas of Operation: Liverpool City
Status: Registered
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The Newcastle Amateur Operatic Society

Arts

Presentation of musical plays, operettas.

Latest Income: £40,485
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Hedge End Village Hall

Arts, Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education, Facilities, Leisure

Provides for nursery schools, local organizations re t dancing karate and many other local amenities; Bingo, Dance Club, Indoor Bowls and local dances i.e. weddings and local parties and citizen advice bureau.

Latest Income: £40,420
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Alderney Manor Community Association

Arts, Associations, Charity and VCS support, Health, Leisure, Religion

Providing safe free space for vulnerable groups, providing meeting space for childrens groups, yoga, line dancing, dance groups, Poole Pentecostal Church. Raising funds for cancer patients, running annual community events

Latest Income: £40,416
Areas of Operation: Poole
Status: Registered
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Starmaker Theatre Company

Arts, Beneficiary group, Leisure, Social welfare

1.To provide training for young people in all aspects of the performing arts2.To provide guidance and assistance in all social and career matters related to the entertainment industry.3.To provide top quality entertainment for the community4.To provide a healthy environment for young people to meet, work together and socialize in.5.To build the Company for future generations.

Latest Income: £40,379
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Jazz North-East Limited

Arts, Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education

Jazz North East promotes grant-aided jazz concerts, festivals and workshops both alone and in partnership with other not-for-profit organisations. We aim to provide opportunities to hear and on occasion work with artists of the highest quality from our own region, from the wider UK and from overseas. We keep admission prices low to encourage attendance by young people and the unemployed.

Latest Income: £40,352
Areas of Operation: Gateshead
Status: Registered
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The Whitehall Choir

Arts, Research

Educating the public in the arts and sciences, and in particular the art and science of music, by the presentation of concerts, the promotion of choral singing, and other activities.

Latest Income: £40,342
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Highfield Hall Community Association

Arts, Associations, Facilities, Leisure

Highfield Hall Community Centre - this is a community resource for leisure and educational pursuits, with group usage for art circle, karate, community events and gatherings for Table Tennis club, drama and choral groups, and childcare provision. We have a large car park. If you are looking for a room to rent for recreation and leisure time occupation please contact us.

Latest Income: £40,328
Areas of Operation: Bolton
Status: Registered
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Bluebird Society For The Disabled

Arts, Beneficiary group, Health

Transporting elderly and disabled persons to club activities, outings, theatre trips, hospitals, doctor appointments as required all at cost prices. We do not receive any funding local or national.

Latest Income: £40,270
Areas of Operation: Brighton And Hove
Status: Registered
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South East Hindu Association

Arts, Religion

1. Religious activities, religious festivals. 2. Hold music sessions (religious only). 3. Hold permission for registered weddings. 4. Advocate community harmony and good relations. 5. Promote peace and harmony with community.

Latest Income: £40,163
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Littleborough Coach House Trust Limited

Arts, Heritage

Provision of a community resource in the form of preservation of a listed coach house; comprising a heritage centre, an art gallery where local artists can exhibit and sell their works and two function rooms which can be hired on an hourly basis and which provides the base for several local groups/societies enabling delivery of weekly / monthly / annual classes, events and exhibitions

Latest Income: £40,147
Areas of Operation: Rochdale
Status: Registered
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Marching & Performing Arts United Kingdom

Arts, Beneficiary group

Marching & Performing Arts United Kingdom is a charitable organisation set up to advance the musical & performing arts education of young people throughout the United Kingdom in all aspects of performing arts, primarily but not exclusively in playing musical instruments, colour guard and dance.

Latest Income: £40,069
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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St. Mary's Church Of England Primary School

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Religion

To provide a fund for children to pay in music tuition income, milk income, trip income, charity events income, school photograph income, book club income, and to pay out expenditure in accordance with user accounts.

Latest Income: £40,034
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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The Thomas Hardy Society

Arts

The Society's activities are for the advancement, for the benefit of the public, of education in the works of Thomas Hardy.

Latest Income: £40,022
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Sutton Valence Village Hall

Arts, Associations, Facilities, Health, Leisure

Provides a venue for the local community to engage in Indoor Bowls, Table tennis, Country Dancing, Exercise Classes,Ballet Dancing, educational programs , Upholstery, National Childbirth Trust and Heritage classes. and Gardening Groups, plus the WI .

Latest Income: £40,005
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Lawyers Music

Arts

Performance of classical orchestral and choral music.

Latest Income: £39,999
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Andover Talking Newspaper Association

Arts, Health

Each week we create a memory stick based on the local paper, with other useful local information. This is distributed to our listeners by Royal Mail ( free), all of whom are blind or partially sighted..

Latest Income: £39,954
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Somerset Chamber Choir

Arts, Charitable activities, Research

To promote, improve, develop and maintain public education in, and appreciation of, the art and science of music.

Latest Income: £39,944
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many arts charities are there in the UK?

There are 6,454 registered arts charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the 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 arts charities?

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 arts charities?

Across all 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 arts charities?

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.