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Beneficiary group Charities That specialise in Widows widowers and orphans

Discover 601 Beneficiary group charities that specialise in widows widowers and orphans. Use the search below to filter within these results.

601
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.

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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Liverpool Shipbrokers' Benevolent Society Incorporated

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The Society exists to recognise those who have worked within the commerce of shipbroking and shipowning and are in need of assistance; to provide financial assistance where appropriate and provide friendship, care and support where financial assistance is not required; and to provide support, financial or otherwise, to the spouses, widowers, widows, children or dependents of such persons

Latest Income: £485,458
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Waddington Hospital

Beneficiary group, Health, Housing

Provision of homes for widows of dalesmen and farmers living in Waddington and the surrounding parishes

Latest Income: £251,994
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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The Penn And Smith Almshouses

Beneficiary group, Housing

Provision of almshouses in Greenwich.

Latest Income: £124,407
Areas of Operation: Greenwich
Status: Registered
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Smt Kamalaben Bhanushanker Joshi, Samasta Bardai Widows Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

Our charity provides basic monthly income for widows in the Bardai region of Gujrat, India. Although the money distributed is a poor substitute for the loss of a spouse, it provides a small comfort of a regular income in both young and old age.

Latest Income: £112,237
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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The Northern Counties Children's Benevolent Society

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

Making of grants for payment of school fees and equipment those in the north of England

Latest Income: £109,337
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Hesslewood Children's Trust (hull Seamen's And General Orphanage)

Beneficiary group, Education, Social care

The relief of those in need and for the promotion of eductaion.

Latest Income: £89,024
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Charity Of William Marshall

Beneficiary group, Religion

GIVES SUPPORT TO LOCAL CHURCH, WIDOWS OF THE PARISH AND LOCAL ORGANISATIONS WITHIN THE PARISH OF WELNEY ONLY

Latest Income: £87,198
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Jewish Students Aid Trust

Beneficiary group, Education, Religion

Primarily helping university students with financial assistance to cover fees etc.

Latest Income: £81,743
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Winwood Almshouses Trust

Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfare

The Charity is a trust and was founded in 1687 to provide almshouses for the poor and widows and widowers in the parish of Quainton

Latest Income: £78,001
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Dickinson Massey Underwood Gill Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

To provide financial support to authorised persons by way of annual pensions or grants for specific cases of hardship.

Latest Income: £68,251
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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Homeyard Homes

Beneficiary group, Housing

PROVIDE HOUSING TO CORNISH SEAMEN'S WIDOWS

Latest Income: £58,979
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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The Convent Of The Sisters Of Charity - Servants Of The Poor

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

To honour the charity of Our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ by works of mercy, spiritual and temporal, the poor, the sick, prisoners, orphans, aged and infirm persons or persons in any other need. This includes the provision of a private registered nursing home.

Latest Income: £56,537
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Consolidated Charities

Beneficiary group, Facilities

Give donations to various Village organisations. Give donations to Students to help with their education. Give a Xmas Gift to widow/widowers within the Parish. There are some allotments which we let to tenants and we own a house which we rent out.

Latest Income: £54,830
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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Town Lands Charity

Beneficiary group

To relieve either generally or individually persons resident in the parishes of Leverington and Gorefield or widows of Newton

Latest Income: £49,305
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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King William Iv Naval Foundation

Beneficiary group

Self contained accommodation for the widows or orphaned daughters of RN or RM officers.

Latest Income: £40,646
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Ministers Benevolent Society

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

To help elderly and infirm unitarian ministers and their families; and for the aid of spouses, widow(ers) and families of any such ministers as may be suffering from ill health or be left without adequate means of support.

Latest Income: £39,967
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Royal Air Force Widows Association

Armed forces, Beneficiary group

Support for RAF Widows and Widowers

Latest Income: £38,159
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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John Sugars Almshouse Charity

Beneficiary group, Housing

John Sugars Almshouses are for widows aged fifty five years or over, who have lived in the parishes of All Saints South Lynn, or St. Margarets or St. Johns, King's Lynn, for three years.

Latest Income: £32,340
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Lady Lucie Reynell's Charity

Beneficiary group, Housing, Professions, Religion, Social welfare

Provision of Housing for those of limited means of the Church of England resident in Devon with a preference given to Clergy, their wives/husbands and widows/widowers or if no suitable applicant to a poor person in Devon with a preference given to widows

Latest Income: £32,100
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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George Hudson's Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

To make grants to orphaned children and young people.

Latest Income: £31,131
Areas of Operation: Sunderland
Status: Registered
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The Barn New Life Centre

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Religion, Social care

We are an assembly of God church and as such our main occupation is worship, prayer, Bible study & propagating the gospel of Jesus Christ. We also have a great concern for children in the third world and operate a charity shop called Annie's Orphans to support orphanages in Burma and Romania, a farm in Zimbabwe caring for Aids orphans & street children in Nairobi & a school in Gautemala

Latest Income: £31,057
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Anglesey
Status: Registered
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Ottley Cottage Homes Trust

Beneficiary group, Housing

We have no activitys we house spinsters and widows of Snaith & Cawicks.

Latest Income: £28,882
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Isles Of Scilly Charitable Trust Comprising The Edward Mcdonald Fund And The Pilots Widows Fund

Beneficiary group

For such charitable institutions, organisations or purposes within the Isles of Scilly as the Trustees from time to time think fit.

Latest Income: £28,670
Areas of Operation: Isles Of Scilly
Status: Registered
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Brandon Poor's Estate

Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfare

Housing primarily for poor widows of the parish of Brandon, Suffolk

Latest Income: £26,893
Areas of Operation: Suffolk
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 601 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.