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Discover 14,985 Charitable activities charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

14,985
Charities
£17,799,675,132
Total Income
£1,065,402
Avg Income
85.8%
Program Ratio

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

Torfaen Citizens Advice Bureau

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing

Provide advice and support at two Bureau offices and outreach services through face to face interviews, written correspondenc, telephone advice, email, via a video link on benefit, debt, housing, consumer, employment, education, immigration, family, legal and local issues.

Latest Income: £1,963,067
Areas of Operation: Torfaen
Status: Registered
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The Kirby Laing Foundation

Charitable activities

This is a grant-making trust offering financial support to other UK registered charities for a wide range of charitable purposes throughout the UK & overseas. Capital or project funding is favoured over revenue funding.

Latest Income: £1,961,554
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Warwickshire Community And Voluntary Action

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

Support to the Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise Organisations through Funding and Governance advice and support , Training , Community development . Strong representation, Group support and development . Campaigning and promotion, Volunteer recruitment and good practice in Volunteer management, Direct delivery projects include Social Prescribing, Youth Employment and two Big Local areas

Latest Income: £1,961,443
Areas of Operation: Coventry City
Status: Registered
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The Mudchute Association

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Childcare, Economic and community development, Education, Facilities, Social welfare

The Green Heart of East London, managing 32 acres of metropolitan green space as a country park; providing environmental education for children and youth especially the disadvantaged; equestrian centre, rare breeds of farm animals and poultry, childrens nursery; cafe and shop; training opportunities for long term unemployed; volunteering opportunities galore.

Latest Income: £1,959,706
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Become Charity

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social care

We work to improve the lives and life chances of young people in care & care leavers. We inform and support them via our publications and learning & skills workshops; we influence policy & practice by ensuring their views and experiences are heard; we provide support materials for foster carers and others responsible for their welfare & education and we develop innovative projects & best practice.

Latest Income: £1,959,629
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Brixton House Limited

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Religion

Established in the 1930s as a philanthropic educational project, Oval House developed as a specialist arts centre in the 1960s, maintaining a strong educational core to the work while establishing an identity as a seed-bedding space for some of Britain's most cutting edge new artists. The work falls into three areas, of equal policy priority:Theatre, Youth Arts and Arts in Education.

Latest Income: £1,959,488
Areas of Operation: Lambeth
Status: Registered
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Network For Social Change Charitable Trust

Charitable activities

Makes grants to charities, charitable institutions, or organisations with charitable purposes from funds raised primarily through its members.

Latest Income: £1,958,828
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Food Foundation

Charitable activities, Health, Research

To advance the education of the public through research in all aspects ofthe food system including health, sustainability, business practice,distribution, consumption, food policy and economics, and to disseminatethe useful results of such research; and to promote and protect health by promoting healthy eating and improveddiet and to decrease diet related disease among the public.

Latest Income: £1,953,892
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Onvero

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education

Improving member D&I/employment practices through the delivery of policy and support; deliver training and consultancy. Encourage more UK employers to adopt D&I strategies. Raise awareness of D&I laws as key commentator on D&I/employment issues. Ensure delivery of workable discrimination laws to Government. Raise awareness of all discrimination and the benefits of diversity.

Latest Income: £1,952,404
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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The Yard Theatre Limited

Arts, Charitable activities

For the public benefit to develop, promote and produce contemporary performance and theatre.To advance the education of the public in all aspects of the dramatic arts and the development of public appreciation of such art in London and elsewhere in the UK.

Latest Income: £1,952,306
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Bingley Grammar School Foundation CIO

Charitable activities, Education, Facilities

Making grants and awards to individuals; providing land.buildings/open space

Latest Income: £1,948,174
Areas of Operation: Bradford City
Status: Registered
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Alcohol Research UK

Charitable activities, Health

We work to significantly reduce alcohol harm in the UK by: funding, commissioning and sharing research; working to ensure more and better support and treatment; encouraging better policy and regulation; shifting drinking cultures through our campaigns; and working to change drinking behaviours by providing advice and information.

Latest Income: £1,948,096
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Foodrise

Charitable activities

An environmental campaigning charity working for food that is good for the planet and its people. We are sector leaders, highly regarded for our hard-hitting investigative research, innovative campaigns, participatory events, and track record of bringing about changes to policy and business practices through a mix of movement building, campaigns, and piloting alternative food system approaches.

Latest Income: £1,942,340
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Barn Theatre Project

Arts, Charitable activities

To promote, maintain, improve and enhance access to all aspects of professional and amateur performing art and the development of public appreciation of such art and to advance public education in relation to it

Latest Income: £1,938,457
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Schools And Teachers Innovating For Results

Charitable activities, Education

STIR is building a movement of teacher changemakers to address the global learning crisis. STIR searches for teachers in the system with a spark of innovation and commitment; networks changemakers together locally, so they can share and implement classroom 'micro-innovations', and influence peers; and then connects them to partners and policy makers who can support them to improve learning.

Latest Income: £1,938,217
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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Local Information Unit Limited

Arts, Charitable activities, Society

The LGIU provides a range of services including:* A policy briefing service on topics relevant to local democracy* A daily news service* Publications on local government* Events and seminars* Learning and development activities* Research and advice

Latest Income: £1,937,424
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Norfolk Citizens Advice

Associations, Charitable activities

The Citizens Advice service aims to: Provide the advice people need for the problems they face Improve the policies and practices that affect peoples livesOur free, independent, confidential and impartial advice and information services are available to all residents of Norfolk regardless of race, gender, disability, sexuality or nationality.

Latest Income: £1,935,459
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Egmont Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

The Egmont Trust works through partner organisations to improve the lives of children affected by HIV&AIDS in countries with high infection rates and high levels of poverty. We provide grants as well as technical assistance to our partners, who are mainly community-based organisations or local NGOS, but also include some private sector and local government initiatives.

Latest Income: £1,928,033
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Age UK Sutton

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

Age UK Sutton offers a comprehensive portfolio of services for people over 50 who reside in the London Borough of Sutton. Services include Home from Hospital, Community Connections - including combating isolation, wellbeing and activities programmes, digital technology, mental health support, influencing, accessible specialist information, advice and advocacy and Dementia support.

Latest Income: £1,926,750
Areas of Operation: Sutton
Status: Registered
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Lupus UK

Charitable activities

The Charity is established to support those with lupus, regardless of class, colour, creed, gender, age or sexual orientation, and to advance the education of the public in all aspects of the disease.

Latest Income: £1,926,506
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Centre For Cities

Charitable activities

To promote education for the public benefit in issues of economics and public policy in relation to cities and towns in the United Kingdom and elsewhere in the world and to promote for the public benefit research in the aforementioned fields and to publish the useful results of such research.

Latest Income: £1,923,328
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Talkback-UK LTD

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

Talkback is a self advocacy organisation for anyone with a learning disability and supports them to use the skills they have already, and learn some new ones so they can:Build their self confidenceHelp make decisions about their own livesSpeak up for themselvesSay a real yes and a real noBecome as independent as they can or want to be

Latest Income: £1,911,660
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Global Generation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities

To advance the education of the public by providing opportunities and instruction for the direct experience of natural wilderness environments for children, young people and adults; to educate and assist young persons to develop their full potential so they are able to contribute positively to society and the environment.

Latest Income: £1,906,631
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Rape And Sexual Violence Project

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Saving of lives, Social welfare

WE SUPPORT SURVIVORS OF ALL GENDERS AND AGES WHO HAVE BEEN AFFECTED BY SEXUAL VIOLENCE/ABUSE & THEIR FAMILIES. WE OFFER:-INDEPENDENT SUPPORT WHEN CHILD & ADULT SURVIVORS REPORT TO THE POLICE-COUNSELLING-INC WOMEN ONLY SPACE-SPECIALIST COUNSELLING & GROUP SUPPORT FOR ASYLUM SEEKERS/REFUGEES-SOCIAL GROUPS-INC.WOMEN ONLY ONES-COFFEE MORNING-HELPLINE-SELF-HELP INFO-TRAINING/AWARENESS

Latest Income: £1,906,051
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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The National Association Of Decorative And Fine Arts Societies

Charitable activities, Leisure

The promotion and advancement of the aesthetic education of the public in the cultivation, appreciation and study of the decorative and fine arts and the giving of aid to the preservation of the artistic heritage of the United Kingdom and other countries for the benefit of the public.

Latest Income: £1,904,668
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many charitable activities charities are there in the UK?

There are 14,985 registered charitable activities charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the charitable activities charities by income?

Lloyd's Register Foundation is the largest by latest reported annual income (£691.7m). 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 charitable activities charities?

Charitable activities charities reported a combined annual income of £17.8bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for charitable activities charities?

Across all charitable activities charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 85.8%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of charitable activities charities?

Charitable activities charities have an average annual income of £1.1m. 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.