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Beneficiary group Charities That specialise in Widows widowers and orphans

Discover 521 Beneficiary group charities that specialise in widows widowers and orphans. Use the search below to filter within these results.

521
Charities
£28,389,754,778
Total Income
£1,022,465
Avg Income
85.5%
Program Ratio

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

Islamic Relief Worldwide

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion

1. Responding to emergencies2. Caring for orphans and children in need3. Supporting education4. Providing access to health care and water5. Promoting sustainable livelihood6. Campaigning and advocacy on humanitrian issues

Latest Income: £275,575,689
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Church Of England Pensions Board

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Housing, Professions, Religion

Provides the best possible support and care, within available resources, to those who have retired from stipendiary and lay ministry within the Church of England, and to their dependants, through the provision of retirement and supported housing, and through discretionary grants to ensure beneficiaries have a minimum income standard.

Latest Income: £63,673,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
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 London Orphan Asylum (reed's School)

Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Saving of lives

To provide education in Cobham for boys from the ages of 11 - 18, and girls in the Sixth Form. The objects of the Foundation, as set down in the Act and Constitution, are to advance the education of boys or girls who have lost one or both parents through death, divorce, or other family disaster, and whose home life, as a result, is unsatisfactory, unhappy or abnormal.

Latest Income: £29,598,000
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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The Royal Cambridge Home

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Housing, Social care

The Charity provides residential care for women and men who have served in the Armed Forces of the Crown and women and men who can be considered to be or have been dependent on a man or woman who has served in the Armed Forces of The Crown. The Charity also offers Day Respite Care to men and women living locally.

Latest Income: £12,400,417
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Royal Alfred Seafarers' Society

Beneficiary group, Housing, Social care

Provision of care home facilities and housing for retired and disabled seafarers, their widows and dependants.

Latest Income: £5,262,666
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Royal British Legion Poppy Factory

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education

The creation of paid, meaningful employment opportunities for ex-Service people, primarily disabled, together with their disabled dependants and widows/widowers.

Latest Income: £4,767,358
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Governors Of The Charity For Relief Of The Poor Widows And Children Of Clergymen (commonly Called Clergy Support Trust)

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Professions, Social welfare

Clergy Support Trust, formerly Sons & Friends of the Clergy, is a clergy support charity established in 1655. Our mission is to support Anglican clergy families through difficult times, whether caused by financial hardship, health problems or other difficulties. We do this mainly through cash grants to individual beneficiaries and through working with other clergy wellbeing organisations.

Latest Income: £4,498,565
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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College Of St Barnabas

Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Professions, Religion

The College of St. Barnabas was established in 1895 to provide retirement homes for Anglican Clergy, Church Workers, Readers licensed by a Bishop and their wives and widows. In 2005 those in communion with Church of England are included. There is also a care wing for those requiring care and medical support. The full objectives of the Charity can be found in the Memorandum of Association.

Latest Income: £2,403,098
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Imdadul Muslimeen

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives, Social care, Social welfare

We donate to charitable organisations with similar charitable objectives as our charity. We support poor children and orphans, widows, victims of natural disasters like earth quakes, floods, etc. through relief organisations carrying out relief work in affected areas. We donate to orphanages & educational institutions for girls & boys in poor countries. We provide clean water by digging wells etc.

Latest Income: £1,604,162
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Inter Care Limited

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Health

Inter Care sends targeted medical aid to rural health units in Ghana, Sierra Leone, Tanzania and Malawi. The health units we support serve a catchment population of over 10 million and include clinics, hospitals, dispensaries and centres for orphaned and vulnerable children. The medical aid Inter Care sends consists mainly of medicines and healthcare goods that are donated or purchased in country.

Latest Income: £1,560,581
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Northumberland Aged Mineworkers' Homes Association

Beneficiary group, Housing, Professions

providing housing for retired miners and the widows of retired miners and others

Latest Income: £1,450,734
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
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Royal Engineers Association

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their spouses, widows, widowers and dependants who are in need through poverty. To make grants, within Association Guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and to other charities that further the objectives of the Association.

Latest Income: £1,437,036
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Printing Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing

We have been supporting people who work or have worked in printing, packaging and publishing since 1827. Our charitable aims include promoting independence, protecting dignity and furthering skills. We meet our aims through providing financial, emotional and practical support, including a free 24/7 helpline, and working with industry partners to champion the sector's emerging talent.

Latest Income: £1,239,618
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Coventry Freemen's Charity

Beneficiary group

The payment of charity benefits or to provide relief in need to needy Freemen of the City of Coventry and the widows, widowers and other direct dependants of a deceased Freeman, who are resident within the UK.

Latest Income: £1,193,321
Areas of Operation: Coventry City
Status: Registered
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The Metropolitan And City Police Orphans Fund

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Professions, Saving of lives

To providing grants to necessitous orphans of members of the Metropolitan and City Police Officers to further their educational and welfare needs.

Latest Income: £1,184,565
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Hospital Of The Holy And Undivided Trinity

Beneficiary group, Health

The Charity provides low cost accommodation and other financial support for 19 elderly, single or widowed men, aged over 50 years, who should be fit and well and able to look after themselves and reside within a 10 mile radius of Retford, Notts, and who need financial and spiritual support and wish to live as part of a christian community

Latest Income: £993,279
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Catholic Apostolic Church - Trust Property Held In Connection Therewith

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Professions, Religion, Social welfare

The advancement of the Christian religion by making grants to assist the clergy, both active and retired and their dependants,in the major branches of the Christian church in the UK. The welfare of both poor members and widows of congregations of the Catholic Apostolic Church. The maintenance of remaining Catholic Apostolic Church buildings and their use for worship by other Churches as agreed.

Latest Income: £981,748
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Feed The Poor

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Health, Housing, Religion, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Humanitarian Aid abroad & UK, includes Emergency Response, Feeding, Agriculture, Empowerment, Shelter, Health, Medical Aid & Equipment to Clinics and Hospitals, Orphans Sponsorship & Orphan related projects within Communities. Widows Assistance, Clean Water & Sanitary solutions. Provision of Education to the less fortunate and all that entails. Assistance to Community & homeless in UK.

Latest Income: £938,458
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Lady Hewley's Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Housing, Religion

The making of grants to Ministers, Retired Ministers and their Widows who are members of the United Reformed or Baptist churches and also students who are studying for ministries in these churches and attending certain specified colleges. Preference is given to those fro the Northern Counties of England. The management of Almshouses belonging to the trust in York

Latest Income: £857,566
Areas of Operation: City Of York
Status: Registered
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Elrahma Charity Trust

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education, Religion, Social care, Social welfare

The relief of poverty and advancement of education and religion in the Muslim community, to assist the poor and orphans of Islamic religion, to erect or help to erect schools, charitable institutions, mosques, orphanages and nurseries for the Islamic community in the United Kingdom and abroad.

Latest Income: £798,252
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Carlee LTD

Beneficiary group, Religion

The principal activity of the company in the year under review was that of a charity company making distributions for Jewish charitable purposes in the advancement of religion and the relief of needy persons, such as Talmudical Scholars, widows and their families.

Latest Income: £784,772
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Ann Watson's Trust

Beneficiary group, Professions, Religion

The trustees maintain 11 flats in Sutton, Hull, for the use of ladies who are practising members of the Church of England, with priority being given to Clergy Widows and Unmarried Daughers of the Clergy.Educational grants given to individuals and local groups and organisations, conditions apply.

Latest Income: £783,071
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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West Riding Masonic Charities Limited

Associations, Beneficiary group

To support and aid sick,elderly or infirm members of Masonic Lodges in Yorkshire and their dependants and widows and to support other Masonic and non Masonic organisations

Latest Income: £763,830
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Grimsby Sailors And Fishing Charity

Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfare

The purpose of the Charity is to maintain almshouses in the Grimsby area for use by retired sailors, fish trade workers and their wives or widows

Latest Income: £711,978
Areas of Operation: North East Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities are there in the UK?

There are 521 registered widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities by income?

British Heart Foundation is the largest by latest reported annual income (£410.6m). 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 widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities?

Widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities reported a combined annual income of £28.4bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities?

Across all widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 85.5%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities?

Widows-widowers-and-orphans beneficiary group charities have an average annual income of £1.0m. 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.