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Charitable activities Charities That specialise in Policy campaigning and advocacy

Discover 1,065 Charitable activities charities that specialise in policy campaigning and advocacy. Use the search below to filter within these results.

1,065
Charities
£8,949,407,421
Total Income
£1,444,618
Avg Income
96.7%
Program Ratio

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

Corps Of Royal Electrical And Mechanical Engineers Museum

Charitable activities, Heritage

To preserve the heritage of the Corps of REME and to make it available for the education of the public and the Armed Services. To assist the public in appropriate military historical research.

Latest Income: £567,104
Areas of Operation: Swindon
Status: Registered
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Doris Field Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The trustees support a diverse range of charities and projects, ranging from small individual grants to contributions to large projects, in accordance with the Trust's charitable objectives and in line with the grant making policy.

Latest Income: £555,419
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Sussex Rural Community Council

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Social welfare

Reducing the incidence and impact of disadvantage and poverty on people living in rural areas, increasing the capacity of rural communities to manage change for the benefit of all their members, informing and amplifying the voice of rural communities to influence public policy

Latest Income: £553,872
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Ofenheim Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The objective of the trust during the year was to distribute its income to charitable bodies to use at their discretion. It continues to be the policy of the trustees to distribute all the income within a reasonable period of its receipt. Decisions about distributions are made by the trustees primarily at their annual meeting to consider distributions.

Latest Income: £553,673
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Collections Trust

Charitable activities, Heritage

The Collections Trust is the UK's independent organisation for cultural collections. We campaign for the public right to access and engage with collections.We do this by:-Promoting best practiceEncouraging InnovationRepresenting the interests of the sector

Latest Income: £535,092
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Campaign For National Parks

Charitable activities, Facilities

Campaign for National Parks is the only independent charity dedicated to securing the future of National Parks in England and Wales. We campaign for a world where nature and people are thriving in National Parks that are nature-rich and accessible to everyone. Our mission is to inspire action for wilder, inclusive National Parks.

Latest Income: £518,615
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Steve Ross Foundation For The Arts

Charitable activities

Steve Ross Foundation for the Arts is an independent organisation based at Quay Arts in Newport Isle of Wight. Its purposes are the fostering and development of artistic knowledge, practice and understanding for the education of the public in the arts, creative practice and their presentation and development.

Latest Income: £505,780
Areas of Operation: Isle Of Wight
Status: Registered
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The Ratiu Family Charitable Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Heritage

1. Adavancement of education of the public 2. Relief of poverty3. Promotion and furtherance of education and research concerning history, geography, culture, arts, music, literature, language, industries and economy of Romania and Romanian people4. Publishing the results of any such research at the discretion of the Trustees5. Relief of Romanian refugees in the United Kingdom

Latest Income: £468,712
Areas of Operation: Romania
Status: Registered
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The Musical Museum

Arts, Charitable activities, Heritage

OPERATION OF A MUSEUM OF AUTOMATIC MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS AND ASSOCIATED ARCHIVES FOR THE GERERAL EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC

Latest Income: £465,781
Areas of Operation: Hounslow
Status: Registered
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The Carole And Geoffrey Lawson Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

The trustee's policy is to consider appeals from charitable causes with a previous track record covering the welfare of children, relief of poverty advancement of arts and education.

Latest Income: £465,527
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Action Disability Kensington And Chelsea

Charitable activities, Education

Disability Resource Centre providing, among others, an Advice and Information service, an Advocacy Project, Policy Project, Lifelong Learning Project, Consultation Project and Personal Budgets Project.

Latest Income: £460,948
Areas of Operation: Kensington And Chelsea
Status: Registered
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Viscount Amory's Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

The trustees follow a general policy of distributing the trust's income whilst maintaining the substance of the trust's investments to enlarge its grant-giving potential.

Latest Income: £457,843
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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The Emmott Foundation Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

The present policy of the Council is to make grants direct to schools to assist towards Sixth Form school fees for students with high academic standards and whose families are experiencing severe financial hardship.

Latest Income: £450,914
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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International Islamic Link

Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

To advance the Islamic Religion, to relieve poverty and to advance education of the public in UK and overseas.

Latest Income: £441,189
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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The Courtauld Institute Of Art Fund

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Heritage

To promote the advancement of public education in the history of art and architecture and the care, conservation and restoration of works of art for the public benefit by raising funds to support the Courtauld Institute of Art

Latest Income: £434,415
Areas of Operation: City Of Westminster
Status: Registered
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Esea Contemporary LTD

Arts, Charitable activities

Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art aims to advance the education of the public in contemporary Chinese arts and culture. Our work covers four main areas; exhibitions, education, agency work and advocacy which includes training, conferences and publications.

Latest Income: £421,798
Areas of Operation: Manchester City
Status: Registered
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Forest Dog Rescue

Animals, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Housing

The charity raises funds to house and care for lost and unwanted dogs in the area. It holds a non-destruction policy and will look after every dog until a suitable, loving home is found.

Latest Income: £417,154
Areas of Operation: Shropshire
Status: Registered
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Shree Kutch Satsang Swaminarayan Temple (east London)

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

(1) To promote the Hindu Faith in accordance with the principles and faiths of Lord Swaminarayan and to advance the religious education of the public in such principles as laid down in Shikshapatri and Vachhanamrat and as per the General Direction of the Shree Narnarayan Dev Temple Bhuj (Kutch). (2) To relieve the aged the poor the sick and the disabled

Latest Income: £415,966
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Sophie Jane Tyler Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Environment, Social welfare

The charitable objects of the Trust are wide and are at the absolute discretion of the trustees. The policy of the trustees has been to support a range of charities, particularly assisting disabled or deprived children both in the UK and overseas, conservation of the environment and providing for the welfare of animals.

Latest Income: £403,148
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Bath Mozartfest Limited

Arts, Charitable activities

To promote and foster the education of the public in and around the City of Bath in all aspects of the life and music of Mozart.

Latest Income: £396,546
Areas of Operation: Bath And North East Somerset
Status: Registered
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The Whinfell Charitable Fund

Charitable activities

The trustees operate a grant-making policy providing funds for such charitable institutions or objects as the trustees think fit.

Latest Income: £394,528
Areas of Operation: Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Royal National Theatre Foundation

Arts, Charitable activities

The education of the public in the art of drama and the promotion of their appreciation of classical and modern drama in all its artistic forms at the Royal National Theatre (the NT"); the relief of past or present employees of the NT who are in necessitous circumstances; as ancilliary to the above objects, to support the NT in its aims to further the appreciation of classical and modern drama.

Latest Income: £394,309
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Birwa Kurdish Community

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development

BKC organizes community activities: religious services and gatherings via volunteer support; supervised youth programs and educational circles following the strict "Rule of Two" safeguarding policy; heritage classes and development workshops for all ages; and community fundraising and support.

Latest Income: £387,668
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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North Staffordshire Railway Company (1978) LTD

Charitable activities, Heritage

To advance the education of the public in the history and development of railway locomotion and in particular by the preservation and restoration of a section of the standard gauge railway system formerly operated by the North Staffordshire Railway Company and, for the benefit of the public, to preserve retain and restore Cheddleton Railway Station as a museum and headquarters for the company.

Latest Income: £378,714
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Cranleigh And South Eastern Agricultural Society

Animals, Charitable activities, Economic and community development

To promote, maintain, improve and advance agriculture, to promote good farming and the advancement of the breeding and rearing of lviestock, poultry and horses and to foster and maintain the education of the public and its interest and awarenessin agricultural industry generally.

Latest Income: £378,204
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities are there in the UK?

There are 1,065 registered policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities 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 policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities?

Policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities reported a combined annual income of £8.9bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities?

Across all policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 96.7%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities?

Policy-campaigning-and-advocacy charitable activities charities have an average annual income of £1.4m. 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.