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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.

The Fairfield Trust

Beneficiary group, Housing, Professions, Religion

The purpose of the Fairfield Trust is to provide quality rented accommodation for missionaries, clergy and other Christian workers; their spouses, widows or widowers who, following careers serving humanity, either in the UK or abroad have been unable to provide for a home of their own.

Latest Income: £141,111
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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The Blues And Royals Association

Beneficiary group

By granting temporary financial assistance for the relief of members or their dependants, who are in need. Non-members of the Association, their wives, widows or children and other dependants in distressed circumstances may also receive temporary assistance at the discretion of the Committee.

Latest Income: £136,138
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Arthur Townrow Pensions Fund

Beneficiary group

Provides pensions to widows and spinsters living in Chesterfield and spinsters living out of the area who are dependent on State benefits or who only have a small income.

Latest Income: £133,443
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Arthur Norfolk Battersby Trust

Beneficiary group

Provision of accomodation for aged or infirm persons of good character and deserving of assistance who reside in Stockport Borough or within a reasonable distance . Priority given to people or widows previously engaged in business or profession

Latest Income: £129,350
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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Hospital Or Almshouses Of Dorothy Elizabeth Pickering And Frances Byrd

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Health, Housing

Northamptonshire rural village location providing accommodation to needy spinisters and widows within the Parish

Latest Income: £128,893
Areas of Operation: Northamptonshire
Status: Registered
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The Ruby And Will George Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

To provide for the advancement of education or the relief of poverty among persons employed or formerly employed in commerce or husbands, wives, widows, widowers or issue of such persons.

Latest Income: £128,090
Areas of Operation: Kenya
Status: Registered
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Hope Community Village

Beneficiary group, Housing

The Charity acts as a resource body providing funds to build homes for abandoned, destitute and orphaned children in India. Additionally, the Charity, also, provides funds to run and maintain the homes it builds in India.

Latest Income: £127,801
Areas of Operation: India
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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Friarsgate Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To provide funds for the academic and general education of orphans and children (whether infant or adult) whose parents are in poor or reduced circumstances.To provide the mental, moral , physical, technical and social education of children, young persons and adults.

Latest Income: £123,335
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Thames Valley Police Benevolent Fund

Beneficiary group, Professions, Saving of lives, Social welfare

To provide assistance to police officers who are either serving or retired members of the Thames Valley Police Benevolent Fund, their widows, widowers and dependants, who are regarded as being in necessitous circumstances. The charity therefore provides public benefit to those persons.

Latest Income: £116,121
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Robinson's Retreat And Relief Charities

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

RELIEVING NEED FOR MINISTERS (ACTIVE OR RETIRED) OF CONGREGATIONAL AND BAPTIST CHURCHES AND OF THE UNITED REFORMED CHURCH IN ENGLAND AND WALES AND FOR WIDOWS OF SUCH MINISTERS RESIDENT IN ENGLAND. THE TRUSTEES APPLY THE INCOME OF THE TRUST BY MAKING GRANTS OF MONEY OR PROVIDING ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES CALCULATED TO REDUCE THE NEED, HARDSHIP OR DISTRESS OF BENEFICIARIES

Latest Income: £115,375
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
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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Charity Of Ann Edwards

Beneficiary group, Housing, Professions, Social welfare

The Charity of Ann Edwards was est by a bequest of Ann Edwards, for the building of almshouses to house clergy widows & female dependants of clergymen who had served in the Diocese of Gloucester. The almshouses were sold, & a new development of 8 housing units at Abbeydale was completed in 1994. The 1993 CC Scheme widened the qualification for residence to any poor single lady members of the CofE

Latest Income: £111,270
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
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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Ann Crowe's And Wright's Almshouse Charity

Beneficiary group, Housing

We have 10 properties that are rented to the elderly widowed in need of accomodation that are currently living in the Ancient Parish of Enfield.

Latest Income: £104,439
Areas of Operation: Enfield
Status: Registered
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The Footwear Benevolent Society

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

To relieve, in cases of need, hardship or distress, persons who are or have been engaged in the footwear trade and their widows, widowers and other dependants.

Latest Income: £104,045
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Indigent Welfare And Education Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The relief of need, hardship or distress of the poor in particular poor orphan children and widows and the relief of sickness of the disabled and the advancement of education in England and throughout the world by providing sustainable aid concentrating on education, digital and welfare projects.

Latest Income: £103,109
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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The Province Of Hampshire & Isle Of Wight Masonic Charitable Trust

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

To provide funds for the relief and benefit of Freemasons their wives, widows and dependants who are in distressed circumstances.

Latest Income: £97,974
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Stewart's And Budgen's Almshouses

Beneficiary group, Housing

Provide 11 bungalows, each for single occupancy by widowed or single women of pensionable age, who are able to look after themselves, and who are eligible for housing benefit.

Latest Income: £95,450
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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God's Church Of Peace

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health, Housing, Religion, Social welfare

Helping the homeless within the borough of SouthwarkHelping orphan institutions in GhanaProviding secondhand clothing / hospital uniforms to Hospitals in GhanaProviding hospital pastoral care the sickOrganising soup kitchens for the homeless during the Christmas period, fund raising for kidney research foundations both here and abroad.Provide food to the needy under UK lockdown

Latest Income: £91,555
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Caleb Initiative

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

In addition to help fund individuals and organisations who are showing God's love in action to very needy people in the UK and worldwide, the charity is providing care, support and education to orphans and at risk children in the Kaliro District and in a poor suburb of Entebbe, in Uganda. The total income is given out without making any deductions for administrative or other costs.

Latest Income: £91,053
Areas of Operation: Sri Lanka
Status: Registered
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The Association Of School And College Leaders Benevolent Fund

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

Distributes funds in the relief of:-Poor widows, widowers, children and dependents of deceased members and deceased former members of the Association of School and College Leaders (formerly SHA), the AHM and HMA. Poor members and former members of ASCL (formerly SHA) AHM and HMA and the spouses, children and dependents of such members. Poor retired employees of the said ASCL.

Latest Income: £90,021
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Thomas Gibbins

Beneficiary group

Provision of pensions, grants and other benefits to employees and their widows, children and other dependents of T G Stamping and Machining Limited and predecessor businesses, who are in need.

Latest Income: £89,967
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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The League Of Remembrance

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health, Social welfare

Provides companionship, welfare and modest financial assistance to widows and dependents of all who served in the Armed Forces, to retired armed forces personnel and to retired members of the nursing profession who help in a variety of ways in hospitals, hospices and other volunteer-based organisations; and to support those suffering from disability

Latest Income: £89,410
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
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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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.