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Economic and community development Charities That specialise in Urban areas

Discover 363 Economic and community development charities that specialise in urban areas. Use the search below to filter within these results.

363
Charities
£9,914,386,440
Total Income
£963,216
Avg Income
79.4%
Program Ratio

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

St Johns Playgroup (southwark)

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Economic and community development, Education

Caring for pre school children in an inner city area.

Latest Income: £93,076
Areas of Operation: Southwark
Status: Registered
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Phileo Agapao (philadelphia International Christian Center)

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Health, Heritage, Leisure

Provide advice, advocacy, interpretation,counselling.Care of the elderly and provision of sheltered accommodationHealth promotion, urban and rural regenerationPromote education through drama, workshops, Sport activities, meseums, art galleries.Recreational and leisure servicesRecycling, refuse collection and disposalWorking with other charities

Latest Income: £92,611
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Transforming Lives Together

Economic and community development, Religion

Transforming Lives Together (TLT) is about enabling churches to make a greater contribution to the spiritual and social transformation of communities. TLT has been set up jointly by the Diocese of Chester and the Church Urban Fund and is a registered company and registered charity. It is part of Church Urban Fund?s Together Network of similar joint ventures around England.

Latest Income: £91,750
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Childcare, Economic and community development, Education, Health, Leisure, Social welfare

To provide out of school and holiday activities for children and young people up to the age of 19, to alleviate the effects of poverty and disadvantage in London's inner-city boroughs of high deprivation. To offer access to opportunities for recreation, sport, arts, skills-development, advice and guidance, to improve C&YP?s health and wellbeing, strengthen resiliency and broaden horizons.

Latest Income: £91,532
Areas of Operation: Hackney
Status: Registered
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Stormwater Shepherds UK

Economic and community development, Environment

The objects of the Charity are for the public benefit to promote the conservation, protection and improvement of the physical and natural environment and educate the public in those subjects, including by (without limitation): 2.1 facilitating large-scale litter clean-ups in urban catchment locations; 2.2 encouraging wide-scale awareness and adoption of environmentally conscious behaviours

Latest Income: £89,249
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Big Up Communities

Arts, Childcare, Economic and community development, Leisure

Adventure plays on selected playground will be provided. The charity provides creative activities such as arts/crafts photography, urban art, upcycling to textiles, painting and community space improvement, under the guidance of professional artists. Sports such as Football, Boxing, MMA, Dance Fitness to Yoga and self-defence designed to keep participants minds and bodies active and healthy.

Latest Income: £87,214
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Shadwell Trust

Economic and community development, Social welfare

The Rooted Forum (TRF) is a charitable organisation which provides pioneering services to the local community in Tower Hamlets and other neighbouring boroughs. TRF offers a wide range of initiatives tailored to the needs of the community.It aims to provide a holistic service, which helps people, particularly those living in disadvantaged urban communities.

Latest Income: £84,761
Areas of Operation: Tower Hamlets
Status: Registered
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Angel Community Canal Boat Trust

Economic and community development, Education, Environment, Heritage

The Trust operates a skippered community canal boat based in Islington, London for use by community groups, schools and local residents at affordable prices. On day or residential trips users experience the activity of a canal cruise, learn about local history, flora, fauna and ecology, supplement classroom learning, develop social skills living together, escape inner city life and much more.

Latest Income: £83,724
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Teesdale And Weardale Search And Mountain Rescue Team

Economic and community development, Saving of lives

TWSMRT operates 24 hours per day, 365 days a year. We provide a mountain, search and rescue service for the whole of County Durham, from the high fells in the west to the coastal communities of the North Sea. The Team responds to requests by the Police to a range of incident types, from injured or lost people in the hills to vulnerable missing people in urban settings.

Latest Income: £83,707
Areas of Operation: Durham
Status: Registered
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Tewkesbury Nature Reserve LTD

Economic and community development, Environment, Facilities

To create and maintain an urban wetland area, including flood meadows and associated habitats, for the benefit of wildlife, to alleviate flooding risks by better management of the water courses, to provide safe access to the public and to educate the public in nature conservation and sustainable land management.

Latest Income: £82,247
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Love Leeds Parks

Economic and community development, Facilities, Social welfare

Love Leeds Parks supports community-led enhancements to public parks and green spaces in Leeds. We raise awareness about the wide ranging benefits of parks, promote community engagement in urban green spaces and generate donations for park improvement projects. The projects we fund are community focused and add value to public green spaces, as well as prioritising parks in deprived areas.

Latest Income: £81,939
Areas of Operation: Leeds City
Status: Registered
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Urban Mba

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development

Our mission is to reach out to these young adults who do not have the required experience or knowledge, and help them transform into successful entrepreneurs. Our vision is to create a world where no young person is lost or left aside.

Latest Income: £81,887
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Greater Morpeth Development Trust

Economic and community development

Greater Morpeth Development Trust will develop Morpeth to be a premier market town in North East England, promoting and improving the town and countryside for public benefit, economic and social well-being of people living and working in Morpeth and surrounding areas of Northumberland through the promotion of urban and rural regeneration.

Latest Income: £81,605
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
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Bridport Area Development Trust

Economic and community development

The promotion, for the benefit of the public, of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation (and in particular in Bridport and the surrounding parishes).

Latest Income: £78,964
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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Urban Extreme LTD

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Leisure

Provide a recreational / leisure facilities in Barrow in Furness and Cumbria.Young people of barrow and the surrounding areas need the use of this indoor skate park and will it will provide a safe, secure and controlled environment for people of all ages to ride there BMX, scooter, skates or skateboard, They can ride there BMX, Scooter, Skates or Skateboard to their full potential.

Latest Income: £78,654
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Finchfield Trust

Economic and community development, Housing

To provide housing for aged persons over the age of 65 or more, or of infirm persons, being inhabitants of the Urban District of Rayleigh.

Latest Income: £78,233
Areas of Operation: Essex
Status: Registered
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The Cotswold Wildlife Park Conservation Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment, Heritage, Research

To promote the conservation, preservation and restoration for the public benefit of the world's animal, bird, fish and plant life and its industrial, urban, natural and marine environmentsof ecological or scientific importance, and its natural rescources;To advance the education of the public in natural history, environmental studies, ecology and conservation.

Latest Income: £76,847
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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North London Pastoral Assistants Scheme

Economic and community development, Religion

To advance the Christian faith (according to the formularies of the Church of England) for the benefit of the public through the recruitment and supervision of full time Pastoral Assistants who gain working experience of ministry within urban parishes.

Latest Income: £74,940
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Community Environmental Trust

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Facilities

We are an environmental charity seeking to protect and enhance urban green space in Birmingham by delivering projects such as Confidence Through Conservation, which aims to help the young and unemployed learn valuable transferable skills via conservation work, and Forest Schools, which engages with school children and uses open green space to provide learning opportunities.

Latest Income: £73,530
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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The H P Dugdale Foundation

Economic and community development

The objects of the Trust in furthering its charitbale purposes for the public benefit are to apply the income subject to the cost of administration expenses of the Charity for the benefit of persons residing in the former County Borough of Huddersfield and the former Urban Districts of Colne Valley Holmfirth Kirkburton and Meltham who are in indigent or greatly reduced circumstances.

Latest Income: £72,031
Areas of Operation: Kirklees
Status: Registered
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Breyer Foundation Limited

Economic and community development, Education, Social welfare, Society

For the public benefit to promote education of long term and short term unemployed, to promote citizenship or community development by developing capacity of socially disadvantaged communities, the relief of unemployment for the benefit of the public, the promotion- for the benefit of the public- of urban or rural regeneration in areas of social and economic deprivation.

Latest Income: £71,744
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Chertsey Combined Charity

Economic and community development, Social welfare

The general relief of distress, hardship and/or need to beneficiaries resident within the boundary of the former Urban District of Chertsey.

Latest Income: £69,949
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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United Kingdom Rescue Organisation

Economic and community development, Saving of lives

UKRO is dedicated to advancing professional rescue focusing on five rescue areas including vehicle extrication; trauma management; rope rescue; urban search and rescue (USAR) and water rescue. Our aim is to develop, enhance and promote the rescue capabilities of firefighters to ultimately reduce unintentional injuries and deaths that can result from these types of incidents in the UK and abroad.

Latest Income: £69,037
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Mirfield Educational Charity

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

The charity makes grants to advance, either generally or individually, the education (including social and physical training) of persons under the age of 25 who are resident, or who have a parent or parents resident, in the area of the former Urban District of Mirfield. The trustees meet in February, May and October each year to consider written applications received by the clerk.

Latest Income: £66,941
Areas of Operation: Kirklees
Status: Registered
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Pillars Of Truth Ministry Trust

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Health, Religion

The charity has been engaged in the relief of porverty,the advancement of religion, counselling and mentoring the inner city youth, premarital counselling and career counselling.

Latest Income: £66,814
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many urban-areas economic and community development charities are there in the UK?

There are 363 registered urban-areas economic and community development charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the urban-areas economic and community development 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 urban-areas economic and community development charities?

Urban-areas economic and community development charities reported a combined annual income of £9.9bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for urban-areas economic and community development charities?

Across all urban-areas economic and community development charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 79.4%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of urban-areas economic and community development charities?

Urban-areas economic and community development charities have an average annual income of £963k. 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.