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Education Charities That specialise in Student support

Discover 727 Education charities that specialise in student support. Use the search below to filter within these results.

727
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.

Brighton College

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

Provision of a first class independent education for children between the ages of 3 to 18. Subject to donations and budgetary limits, scholarship awards are made on the basis of the individual's educational potential and bursary awards are made to enable academically able children to benefit where financial hardship might otherwise preclude.

Latest Income: £80,724,839
Areas of Operation: Brighton And Hove
Status: Registered
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The Whitgift Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education, Health, Housing, Social care

The charity has two independent schools in the Croydon area. Fee assistance is provided to 300 pupils by way of a means tested bursaries scheme. The charity also runs two care homes and Almshouses providing nursing care, residential care and sheltered accommodation to the elderly in the region.

Latest Income: £77,076,403
Areas of Operation: Croydon
Status: Registered
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The Associated Board Of The Royal Schools Of Music

Arts, Education

ABRSM motivates musical achievement through internationally recognised examination and assessment of students, professional development of teachers and provision of published resources and online learning via its websites, apps and audio and video resources. ABRSM makes significant donations towards music education each year including scholarships to the four Royal Schools of Music.

Latest Income: £50,899,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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St Peter's College, Radley

Education

Radley College is an independent wholly boarding school for boys aged 13 to 18. The College acts as trustee of various funds used to provide scholarships (max 10% fees) and bursaries (up to full fees), and welcomes applications from those needing financial assistance. Overall Radley College aims to ensure that it and its pupils benefit both society in general and the local community.

Latest Income: £47,643,000
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Rhodes Trust - Public Purposes Fund

Education

To provide financial scholarships to enable students from selected countries, to pursue a post graduate or second undergraduate degree at the University of Oxford. To make benefactions or donations for primarily educational purposes.

Latest Income: £34,107,772
Areas of Operation: United States
Status: Registered
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The Manchester Grammar School Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education

Manchester Grammar School is an independent boys school whose purpose is to educate boys who qualify by nature of their ability, regardless of family circumstances. Income from the school's foundation bursary fund, held by the MGS Trust, is used on a means tested basis to support boys from lower-income families who would not otherwise be able to accept a place at the school.

Latest Income: £32,427,150
Areas of Operation: Manchester City
Status: Registered
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Trinity Laban Conservatoire Of Music And Dance

Arts, Education

Specialist, practice-based higher education to equip students for successful careers as performers, composers and choreographers in the fields of music and contemporary dance.Lifelong learning opportunities in dance and music.Outreach and community-based projects.Promotion of research and scholarship to advance the art forms of music and dance.Provision of music and dance performances.

Latest Income: £31,610,789
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Coventry School Foundation

Education

Coventry School Foundation Schools provide an independent education for around 2,000 pupils aged 3-18. The schools, all of which are co-educational, are Bablake Senior and Junior Schools, Bablake Pre Prep (also known as The Grange), King Henry VIII Senior and Junior Schools and King Henry VIII Pre-Prep. Bursaries & scholarships are available on entry at years 3 and 7.

Latest Income: £26,420,028
Areas of Operation: Coventry City
Status: Registered
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St Dunstan's Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education

The Charity runs a day school in Catford in the London Borough of Lewisham for boys and girls aged between 3 and 18 years old.It provides bursaries and scholarships to a wide range of pupils and opens its facilities to the wider community.

Latest Income: £25,133,730
Areas of Operation: Lewisham
Status: Registered
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The Saint John's School Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education, Professions, Religion

To advance the education of boys and girls from the ages of 11 to 18. The provision of subsidised education for Foundationers (being children of Church of England or Church of Wales clergy of limited means). The provision of means-tested bursaries to pupils whose families would not otherwise be able to afford the full fees and thereby widen access to the education provided by the School.

Latest Income: £24,940,887
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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The Architectural Association (incorporated)

Arts, Education, Heritage

For the public benefit to promote and afford facilities for the study of Architecture by the establishment and carrying on of a School of Architecture, the founding of scholarships and the giving of prizes, by provision of lectures and classes; the formation of a library and museum; the organisation of visits the production and circulation of periodicals and other publications.

Latest Income: £24,839,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Bridewell Royal Hospital

Beneficiary group, Education, Health, Housing

The advancement of education by providing boarding and day schooling for boys and girls and the provision of bursaries, scholarships and other educational benefits. The Charity provides financial support in particular for children whose home circumstances make boarding education beneficial.

Latest Income: £24,467,000
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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St Helen's School, Northwood

Beneficiary group, Education

The education of girls;The grant of bursaries to offer opportunities for girls who might not be able to take up a place at the School; The provision for worship in the Christian tradition and with respect for all faiths, relgions and religious diversity;

Latest Income: £22,791,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Leighton Park Trust

Education

Independent School

Latest Income: £19,345,654
Areas of Operation: Reading
Status: Registered
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St Catherine's British School

Beneficiary group, Education

Teaching & learning for British & foreign expatriate children and local Greek children. Providing national curriculum of England & Wales, IGCSE & I.B. Diploma programmes to children aged 3-18. Providing professional development for teachers & administrators. Providing bursaries, and assistance to a range of families, charitable donations to various individuals and organisations in need.

Latest Income: £17,245,221
Areas of Operation: Greece
Status: Registered
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The Free Grammar School Of King Charles Ii At Bradford

Beneficiary group, Education

The provision of a high-quality education to boys and girls in Bradford to boys and girls who would benefit from such a provision. Bursary awards are made to help fund the education of children whose families might otherwise struggle to afford the School's fees

Latest Income: £17,077,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Holme Grange LTD

Beneficiary group, Education

Provision of Education to 3-16 year old boys & girls.Aim to achieve highest academic levels inkeeping with the ability of each pupil while fostering traditional values e.g. honesty, integrity,kindness and courtesy.Partnerships with local schools providing expertise,advice and support.Means tested bursaries for more able children from families unable to fund private education without support.

Latest Income: £13,199,547
Areas of Operation: Wokingham
Status: Registered
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The Council Of Milton Abbey School LTD

Beneficiary group, Education

The main activity of Milton Abbey is running a co-educational school for 13 - 18 year old pupils,inspiring children of all academic standards to achieve the very best in everything they do. Pupils are encouraged to have big ambitions, great confidence and good hearts. The school offers Bursaries, provides facilities for use by the local community and supports both local and national charities.

Latest Income: £10,164,130
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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Yale University Press London

Arts, Education

The Charity is engaged in the publication of scholarly books which make a significant contribution to academic research and learning, and which serve faculty and students in institutions of higher education. It also publishes work based on sound scholarship, but intended for a broader readership, to bring the highest quality learning to the public at large and to enhance cultural life.

Latest Income: £8,848,425
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Bute House Preparatory School For Girls Limited

Beneficiary group, Education

To advance education primarily by conducting in West London a day school for girls aged 4 to 11. The School's aim is to provide an academic education for pupils with a range of abilities and backgrounds. Bursaries enable a wider range of girls to take advantage of the unique education the School has to offer. Aims and ethos are on its website https://www.butehouse.co.uk/about-us/aims-ethos.html

Latest Income: £8,723,288
Areas of Operation: Hammersmith And Fulham
Status: Registered
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The Malden Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Education

The object of the Charity is to benefit the public via Windlesham House School, a preparatory boarding School for boys and girls between the ages of 4 and 13, to ensure that our unique approach to education is made available to as many children as possible through bursaries, for which we maintain a fund, and partnership with, and support to, maintained schools and other educational institutions.

Latest Income: £8,707,749
Areas of Operation: West Sussex
Status: Registered
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Port Regis School LTD

Beneficiary group, Education

The School which is a boarding and day preparatory school, for both boys and girls, exists to provide children between the ages of three and thirteen with an all-round education of the very highest quality. The school continues to prepare children for Common Entrance and Senior Independent School Scholarships and to ensure that each child has a full extra-curricular programme.

Latest Income: £8,571,452
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Thorpe Hall School Trust

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Economic and community development, Education, Leisure

The promotion and advancement of education at Thorpe Hall School to provide education to children from pre-nursery to 16 years plus - an independent co-educational day school - maintenance of schools land and buildings. Provision of means tested bursaries. Engagement with community development of pupils sporting, artistic and social skills.

Latest Income: £8,371,330
Areas of Operation: Southend-on-sea
Status: Registered
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The Portal Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

Grants for education to financially disadvantaged young people under 25 years resident in London. Provision of scholarships and bursaries to individuals, and grants to education projects and activities run by schools and organisations.

Latest Income: £8,221,960
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Association Of Commonwealth Universities

Education

Working with our members and others to promote and contribute to the provision of excellent higher education for the benefit of all people throughout the Commonwealth and beyond. Administration and funding of student scholarships.

Latest Income: £8,069,000
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many student-support education charities are there in the UK?

There are 727 registered student-support education charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the student-support 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 student-support education charities?

Student-support 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 student-support education charities?

Across all student-support 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 student-support education charities?

Student-support 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.