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Beneficiary group Charities That specialise in Children

Discover 20,032 Beneficiary group charities that specialise in children. Use the search below to filter within these results.

20,032
Charities
£56,377,453,005
Total Income
£658,307
Avg Income
88.5%
Program Ratio

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

Livability

Beneficiary group

Livability is the disability charity committed to enabling children, young people and adults to live a life that adds up for them. Every day, we deliver a wide range of disability care, special education, and rehabilitation services to over 1,000 people who are at the heart of everything we do. Our Christian ethos is why we were founded in 1844 and it's why we still exist today.

Latest Income: £66,413,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Ruskin Mill Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Education

Ruskin Mill Trust works with vulnerable children and young people that have learning disabilities and difficulties, including autistic spectrum disorders and developmental delay. Our pioneering approach has proved highly successful with specialist schools, colleges and adult social care provision operated by the wider Ruskin Mill Trust group, in England, Scotland and Wales.

Latest Income: £65,468,543
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The London Marathon Charitable Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Leisure

London Marathon Foundation, the operating name of The London Marathon Charitable Trust, aims to inspire physical activity. It does so by awarding grants to help make available facilities and opportunities and by direct delivery to help the least active children, young people and adults from underserved communities get active.

Latest Income: £62,715,273
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Plan International UK

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives

Plan International UK is a global children's charity. We strive to advance children's rights and equality for girls all over the world. We work to give every child the same chance in life by giving children and their communities access to education, healthcare, clean water and more. And if disaster strikes we are there to protect children to keep them learning and help them recover.

Latest Income: £61,680,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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BBC Children In Need

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The Charity?s objects are to further such exclusively charitable objects and purposes in any part of the United Kingdom, the Channel Islands and the Isle of Man as the Directors may in their discretion think fit and in particular (without prejudice to the generality of the foregoing) to relieve need, hardship, sickness, handicap and distress amongst children and young persons.

Latest Income: £61,012,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Dulwich College

Beneficiary group, Education

The advancement of education of children for the benefit of the public by: a) the conduct at Dulwich of a day and boarding school for boys which may include a preparatory department, and if thought fit, the provision of a pre-preparatory school for boys and girls; and b) the provision and support of other educational institutions and activities in Dulwich and elsewhere in the United Kingdom.

Latest Income: £57,319,775
Areas of Operation: Southwark
Status: Registered
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Rugby School

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

The School's principal activity is the education and pastoral care of its pupils.The provision of a broad liberal Christian education at a boarding and day school at Rugby School for children from Rugby and neighbourhood and elsewhere, and by ancillary or incidental activities and other associated activities for the benefit of the community.

Latest Income: £56,986,000
Areas of Operation: Warwickshire
Status: Registered
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Hestia Housing And Support

Beneficiary group, Crime and Justice, Health, Housing, Social welfare

Hestia delivers high quality & empowering housing, support, protection & care services in partnership with service users & local communities in 22 London boroughs. Hestia provides services to people with mental health needs, physical disability, substance misusers, offenders, women & children fleeing domestic abuse, older & young people, personal budget holders & other wider community groups.

Latest Income: £56,783,162
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Nesta

Beneficiary group

The UK's innovation agency for social good. We design, test and scale new solutions to society's biggest problems, changing millions of lives for the better. We will focus our energy and resources on three innovation missions: a fairer start for every child; a healthy life for all, and a sustainable future where the economy works better for people and the planet.

Latest Income: £55,306,000
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Compassion UK Christian Child Development

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

To advance the christian faith in all or any part of the world.The relief of poverty, suffering or distress amongst children.The education and training of children.The development of children to social and spiritual maturity.

Latest Income: £53,228,544
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Ambitious About Autism

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

AMBITIOUS ABOUT AUTISM IS THE NATIONAL CHARITY FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM. WE PROVIDE INFORMATION, TRAINING AND SUPPORT, RUN A RANGE OF HIGH-QUALITY SERVICES INCLUDING THE PIONEERING TREEHOUSE SCHOOL, AND CAMPAIGN TO MAKE THE ORDINARY POSSIBLE FOR CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE WITH AUTISM.

Latest Income: £52,371,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Berkhamsted Schools Group

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education

The education (including social and physical training) of boys and girls aged 3 -18, with a subsidiary nursery school for children from 5 months old.

Latest Income: £49,855,000
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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St Andrew's College, Bradfield

Beneficiary group, Education

St Andrew's College, Bradfield includes Bradfield College which is a co-educational day and boarding school for children aged 13-18, and St Andrew's School which is a co-educational day and boarding school for children aged 3-13.

Latest Income: £49,063,000
Areas of Operation: West Berkshire
Status: Registered
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St Peter's College (otherwise Known As Westminster School)

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

Westminster School is a public boarding school for young persons. The aims encompass this object and have been extended over a number of years to accommodate day pupils and girls. It now educates children from 7 through to 18 and aims to widen access as much as possible. It also aims to provide excellence in sporting and extra-curricular activities, notably artistic, musical and social skills.

Latest Income: £46,101,000
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Family Fund Trust

Beneficiary group, Health

THE FAMILY FUND HELPS FAMILIES WITH SEVERELY DISABLED OR SERIOUSLY ILL CHILDREN TO HAVE CHOICES AND THE OPPORTUNITY TO ENJOY ORDINARY LIFE. WE SUPPORT FAMILIES WITH SIGNPOSTING AND INFORMATION AND GIVE GRANTS FOR THINGS THAT MAKE LIFE EASIER AND MORE ENJOYABLE FOR THE DISABLED CHILD AND THEIR FAMILY, SUCH AS WASHING MACHINES, HOSPITAL VISITING COSTS, COMPUTERS AND FAMILY BREAKS.

Latest Income: £44,882,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Family Action

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health

To preserve and protect the good health (in particular the mental health) of children and families, other individuals and groups within the community and to provide services, advice and grants to children, adults and families.

Latest Income: £44,282,000
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Man
Status: Registered
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Brentwood School CIO

Beneficiary group, Education

The Charity's Objectives are the advancement of education in or near the District of Brentwood by providing day and boarding schooling. The School provides a first class education for pupils aged between 3 and 18 that prepares them for life in the modern world. Every child is treated as an individual and encouraged to combine work in the classroom with a wide range of co-curricular activities.

Latest Income: £43,801,078
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Royal Medical Foundation Of Epsom College

Beneficiary group, Education

(1) To provide pensions for registered medical practitioners of the UK and their widows or widowers in reduced circumstances. (2) To provide generally for the advancement of education by the provision of a school. (3) To provide occasional financial assistance for registered medical practitioners of the UK and their widows or widowers and children in reduced circumstances.

Latest Income: £41,326,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Together Trust

Beneficiary group

The Together Trust provides care, education and support for children, young people, adults and families in need in England and Wales.

Latest Income: £41,160,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Church Of England Children's Society

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Housing, Religion, Social welfare

Frontline services focus on 10-18 year olds who live with significant disadvantage, poverty, neglect and who have complex needs and face multiple risks. These include child exploitation, mental health, missing and runaways from home, substance misuse and children in and around the care system. We campaign about what needs to change to improve the lives of disadvantaged children and young people.

Latest Income: £40,642,000
Areas of Operation: Denbighshire
Status: Registered
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The Cyrenians LTD

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Health, Housing

Changing Lives is a national, charity which provides specialist support services to vulnerable people and their families. Our key themes of work include: housing & homelessness, drug & alcohol, women & children's and employment services. Our mission is 'changing lives, building futures'.

Latest Income: £38,034,659
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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St Edward's School

Beneficiary group, Education

The objects of the Charity are, for the benefit of the public, to promote and provide for the advancement of education of children and young people, in particular by providing, conducting, governing, carrying on and maintaining in the United Kingdom, or elsewhere, a boarding and/or day school, or schools.

Latest Income: £37,955,000
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Haileybury College

Beneficiary group, Education

Haileybury is a boarding and day school for children aged 11-19. The ethos of Haileybury is centred around giving pupils a first class academic education whilst at the same time offering an exceptional pastoral environment and a broad choice of co-curricular activities.

Latest Income: £37,468,000
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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The London Early Years Foundation

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development

The London Early Years Foundation (LEYF) is one of the UK's largest charitable social enterprises with a social purpose of 'changing the world one child at a time'. We achieve our social purpose by giving London's children aged 0-5 years the best start in life through the highest quality Early Years Education and Care, especially those who otherwise may not be able to access or afford it.

Latest Income: £37,158,611
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Hurstpierpoint College Limited

Beneficiary group, Education

Independent Day and Boarding School for children aged from 4 to 18

Latest Income: £36,461,000
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many children beneficiary group charities are there in the UK?

There are 20,032 registered children beneficiary group charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the children beneficiary group charities by income?

Save the Children International is the largest by latest reported annual income (£1.1bn). 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 children beneficiary group charities?

Children beneficiary group charities reported a combined annual income of £56.4bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for children beneficiary group charities?

Across all children beneficiary group charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 88.5%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of children beneficiary group charities?

Children beneficiary group charities have an average annual income of £658k. 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.