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Education Charities That specialise in Higher education

Discover 579 Education charities that specialise in higher education. Use the search below to filter within these results.

579
Charities
£19,730,821,908
Total Income
£995,601
Avg Income
91.7%
Program Ratio

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

Stanley Picker Trust

Arts, Education

Provision of annual awards of fellowships in fine art and design at Kingston University; provision of other prizes for study of painting and sculpture; provision of donations to other educational charities in the fields of fine art and performing arts; and provision of educational scholarships in those fields. Maintaining the Picker House and art collection and providing public access to them.

Latest Income: £161,903
Areas of Operation: Kingston Upon Thames
Status: Registered
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Rheumatology Discretionary Fund Ucl Charity

Education, Research

We seek to improve the outlook for patients with musculorskeletal diseases, especially those with autoimmune rheumatic conditions. The charity is mainly involved in supporting research into the disease, both clinical and experimental at University College London. It also helps to provide educational opportunities for those doing the research.

Latest Income: £158,607
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Harold And Marjorie Moss Charitable Trust

Education, Social welfare

The trustees' principal activity is to expend the charity's income in the following main areas:1) In education, by supporting promising pharmacy students who maybe in finacial difficulties, via hardship grants.2) By funding teaching chairs, research projects and university awards programs, with an emphasis on community pharmacy initiatives.

Latest Income: £156,479
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Trapnell Fund

Charitable activities, Education

To support or promote the advancement of education by the provision of bursaries and scholarships at Rossall School and by the provision of grants and scholarships to persons leaving Rossall School in full-time education at any university, college, school or other educational establishment.

Latest Income: £155,547
Areas of Operation: Lancashire
Status: Registered
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Verbum Dei Community

Beneficiary group, Education, Religion

Scripture-based prayer groupsEncounters and RetreatsMarried couples and family encountersSpiritual and Catechetical FormationSpiritual Accompaniment and Vocational DiscernmentWe are also working with some Diocese as University Chaplains and Catechetical Coordinators

Latest Income: £153,583
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Rutlish Foundation

Charitable activities, Education

To provide grants primarily to persons under the age of 25 years in higher education who are resident or born in the ancient parish of Merton or who have attended Rutlish School for three years and to provide land and buildings and other benefits for Rutlish School.

Latest Income: £150,765
Areas of Operation: Merton
Status: Registered
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The Langford Trust For Animal Health And Welfare

Charitable activities, Education, Research

we relieve suffering and further animal welfare by promoting the practice, advancement and teaching of veterinary science and we foster public education in animal health and welfare by supporting the university of Bristol school of veterinary science.

Latest Income: £148,217
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Williams College Oxford Programme

Education

THE CHARITY AIMS TO PROVIDE THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS WHO ARE CURRENTLY JUNIOR MEMBERS OF WILLIAMS COLLEGE, WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS, USA AND PROVIDES FINANCIAL AID, ACCOMMODATION FACILITIES AND INDIVIDUAL TUTORIAL SESSIONS WITH FACULTY MEMBERS OF OXFORD UNIVERSITY, AND IN PARTICULAR IN CONJUNCTION WITH TUTORS AT EXETER COLLEGE, OXFORD, FOR A COMPLETE ACADEMIC YEAR.

Latest Income: £146,776
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Friends Of Oystermouth Castle

Associations, Education, Heritage

Oystermouth Castle is a Scheduled Ancient Monument and Grade 1 Listed Building. Access and presentation is supervised by this charity which promotes the history and heritage of the site to visitors and provides a venue for many school, college and university students. The castle hosts Medieval Re-enactments and Living History Societies which recreate aspects of life during the Middle Ages.

Latest Income: £142,727
Areas of Operation: City Of Swansea
Status: Registered
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City Educational Trust Fund

Education, Research

TO ADVANCE THE OBJECTS OF THE CITY UNIVERSITY OR ANY SUCH OBJECTS FOR EDUCATIONAL PURPOSES CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED TO SAID UNIVERSITY, AND TO ADVANCE EDUCATION IN SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY, BUSINESS MANAGEMENT AND COMMERCE BY PROMOTING RESEARCH STUDY TEACHING AND TRAINING IN BIOLOGY, ECOLOGY OR THE ADVANCEMENT OF RESEARCH AND TEACHING OF THE CULTURAL ARTS.

Latest Income: £133,654
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Robert Lucas For The Poor And For Public Purposes

Education, Social welfare

To assist the needy and organisations benefiting the public in the parish of Shefford, also includes educational grants for university students.

Latest Income: £132,389
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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The British Society For The Philosophy Of Science

Charitable activities, Education, Research

The BSPS holds an annual conference with invited speakers and contributed papers, and monthly meetings at which invited speakers present papers. It makes grants to support conferences relevant to research and education in its areas of study and awards annual studentships for doctoral work in philosophy of science in a UK university. Other activities are decided by the committee from time to time.

Latest Income: £130,245
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Normanton Freeston Foundation

Education

Income net of expenses applied as follows. 1. Grants for the educational benefit of students and former students of Outwood Academy Freeston with a preference for those resident in the ancient parishes of Normanton or Warmfield. 2. Leavers exhibitions. 3. Travel bursaries. 4. Freeston Foundation scholarships. 5. Higher education awards.

Latest Income: £122,178
Areas of Operation: City Of Wakefield
Status: Registered
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Mcgill University Trust

Associations, Education

McGill University Trust supports UK students who wish to have the experience of studying at a university in Canada. Funds are raised by the Trust, principally from alumni and friends of McGill based in the UK, to support a scholarship and bursary programme for UK students wishing to attend McGill and for the general welfare of McGill University.

Latest Income: £121,623
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Howard Foundation

Education, Research

Scientific research into nutriceuticals and support for Downing College, Cambridge University.

Latest Income: £118,596
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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T F C Frost Charitable Trust

Education, Health, Research

Gives grants and fellowships for research into eye disease through recognised University and Hospital research departments.

Latest Income: £117,983
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Gilchrist Educational Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Research, Social welfare

THE TRUST MAKES GRANTS TO: 1) ORGANISATIONS SEEKING TO FILL ACADEMIC EDUCATIONAL GAPS.2) INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE EITHER WITHIN SIGHT OF THE END OF SELF-FINANCED DEGREE OR HIGHER EDUCATION COURSE AND WHO ARE FACING UNEXPECTED FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES OR (B) REQUIRED, AS PART OF A UNIVERSITY COURSE , TO STUDY ABROAD. 3)EXPEDITIONS PROPOSING TO CARRY OUT SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH

Latest Income: £116,101
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Association Of Friends Of Bristol University Botanic Garden

Associations, Education, Facilities, Leisure

To support the work and development of the Botanic Garden and to stimulate interest through a variety of events and activities. Income generated by such events, and also from membership subscriptions, is used to invest in new projects in the garden, make a major contribution to its upkeep and support horticultural education through the funding of trainees in the garden.

Latest Income: £116,018
Areas of Operation: Bristol City
Status: Registered
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Whipps Cross University Hospital Medical Education And Research Trust

Education, Health, Research

The primary object of the charity is to encourage assist and extend the academic and research activities of all members of the medical, dental and allied professions practising within the area administered by Whipps Cross University Hospital.

Latest Income: £115,931
Areas of Operation: Redbridge
Status: Registered
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The Open University Students' Educational Trust

Education, Social welfare

We give grants for course fees and essential study costs to OU students who are in financial difficulty and unable to receive financial assistance from government and university sources.

Latest Income: £114,303
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Wispers Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Education

Provision of bursaries for girls up to the age of entry to university

Latest Income: £109,201
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Lord Kitchener National Memorial Fund

Beneficiary group, Education

The provision, by competition, of scholarships to those studying for a first degree at a university in the United Kingdom and who have a parent who has served in the Armed Forces of the Crown.

Latest Income: £108,007
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The European Association For Digital Humanities

Arts, Education

The Association promotes and supports the advancement of education in the Digital Humanities through the development and use of computational methods in Humanities research and teaching. The Association publishes the results of research in its journal LLC:The International Journal of the Digital Humanities, published by Oxford University Press.

Latest Income: £104,636
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Kadosh Marian Ministries

Arts, Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Religion, Social welfare

CONDUCT SEMINARS STUDY CLASSES, HELP PUBLICATION OF BOOKS .HELP FINANCIALLY TO RELEIVE POVERTY. PROVIDE ADVICE AND INFORMATION. ARRANGE RETREATS PRAYER GROUPS HELP STUDENTS COMING FROM ABROAD TO FIND JOBS & ACCOMODATION, ARRANGE EXCURSIONS TO THE AGED & RETIRED. PROVIDE SCHOLARSHIPS TO UNIVERSITY STUDENTS.GUIDANCE AND COUSELLING.PROVIDE THEOLOGICAL CLASSES TO STUDENTS .

Latest Income: £104,084
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Mitchells & Butlers Charitable Trusts

Education

To assist pupils resident in Birmingham and Smethwick to attend schools, universities and other places of higher education.

Latest Income: £99,980
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many higher-education education charities are there in the UK?

There are 579 registered higher-education education charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the higher-education education charities by income?

United Learning LTD is the largest by latest reported annual income (£790.0m). 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 higher-education education charities?

Higher-education education charities reported a combined annual income of £19.7bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for higher-education education charities?

Across all higher-education education charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 91.7%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of higher-education education charities?

Higher-education education charities have an average annual income of £996k. 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.