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Education Charities That specialise in Student support

Discover 1,607 Education charities that specialise in student support. Use the search below to filter within these results.

1,607
Charities
£41,404,805,161
Total Income
£743,247
Avg Income
88.5%
Program Ratio

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

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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The Coachmakers And Coach Harness Makers Charitable Trust 1977

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Education

The charity makes grants and bursaries to individuals in aid of technical education connected to industries in the automotive, aerospace and coachmaking sectors. It also supports charitable institutions and voluntary bodies and members of the UK armed services .The charity raises charitable funds mainly from its members but also raises funds from the general public from time to time.

Latest Income: £121,933
Areas of Operation: City Of London
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 Ega Hospital Charity

Education, Health

The EGA Hospital Charity supports both patients and staff at the hospital. We award a Travel Fellowship yearly for doctors travelling abroad to further their training. We help with improvement of hospital facilities, fund research projects and buy vital equipment such as for fetal surgery or postnatal care, and much more. The EGA Charity PhD Scholarship, funding PhD fees, started in 2022.

Latest Income: £121,158
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Monte San Martino Trust

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Crime and Justice, Education

To raise funds to provide bursaries to Italian students to cover costs of residential courses in the UK. These students are usually direct descendants of, or connected with, the very families who provided much needed food and shelter to Allied prisoners of war who had escaped form their prison camps after the Armistice was signed with the Allies in 1943.

Latest Income: £121,089
Areas of Operation: Italy
Status: Registered
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French Scholarship Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education

To provide financial assistance to parents or guardians of children attending College Francais Bilingue de Londres Limited and Lycee International de Londres.

Latest Income: £120,860
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Albert Dawson Educational Trust

Arts, Education

To promote appreciation and understanding of 19th century english arts and artefacts by undertaking research, by supporting exhibitions, publications, lectures and workshops. To advance education and knowledge by supporting centres of teaching of art and by providing financial assistance to students, and provision of scholarships and bursaries.

Latest Income: £119,489
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Langalanga Trust

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

The charity awards secondary school scholarships to bright but disadvantaged children living in the Rift Valley and Central Provinces of Kenya. Those scholars who do well enough at secondary school are then supported through further education. The charity also funds a lunch programme for two primary schools and provides resources to other linked schools in the most deprived areas near Langalanga.

Latest Income: £118,652
Areas of Operation: Kenya
Status: Registered
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Mvumi School Trust

Charitable activities, Education, Health

The function of this charity's work in Tanzania is the furtherance of the education of students at the Anglican Diocese of Central Tanganyika's Mvumi Secondary School and the Buigiri Primary School for the Blind, by way of grants to the schools and bursaries and scholarships to the students. The work of the charity can extend to other purposes as shall be exclusively charitable .

Latest Income: £118,296
Areas of Operation: Tanzania
Status: Registered
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Mitchell City Of London Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

To offer bursaries at 6th form level for those students who attend a 'City' school or whose parents have lived or worked within the City of London for a minimum of 5 years. To offer grants to students (age 11-16) of single parent families, also with the 'City' qualification. The 'City' is the 'square mile' almost all postcodes EC3, EC4 and a small area of EC1, EC2 - not Greater London.

Latest Income: £117,185
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Mark Milsome Foundation

Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development, Education

Raising funds to encourage and support young people between the ages 18 to 25 who display the qualities needed to thrive in the British Film and Television industry by way of Awarding scholarships, maintenance allowances or grantsProviding mentorship and work placements to better prepare for work in the Film & Television industry and increasing their chances of long term employment

Latest Income: £116,826
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Music For People (summer School Of Music)

Arts, Education

To hold an annual Summer School of Music in order to advance the education and appreciation by the public in and of music and associated arts. We hold over 20 separate classes daily led by professional tutors, attended by students of all ages, abilities & backgrounds. Bursaries given: 10 full free places based on circumstances and contribution to community.

Latest Income: £116,466
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Robert College UK

Charity and VCS support, Education

Robert College UK engages in fund-raising activities to support educational activities in Turkey (including social and physical training) of people under the age of 21 in such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including by awarding to such persons scholarships, maintenance allowances or grants tenable at Roberts College of Istanbul.

Latest Income: £116,352
Areas of Operation: Turkey
Status: Registered
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Cambridge Forum For The Construction Industry

Education

To further education and development of the construction industry in Cambridge, by: advancing education, learning and understanding; awarding of grants, bursaries, scholarships, provision of other financial assistance; and for the public benefit, particularly but not exclusively in the area of the city of Cambridge to promote and support high standards in planning, design and architecture

Latest Income: £116,088
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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The Dover College Trust

Beneficiary group, Education

The acceptance of money, investments or other property, the investment of the same and the application of income derived therefrom (with in certain cases the power to utilise capital) for the purposes of assisting with improvements of a capital nature at Dover College and the provision of Scholarships to children whose parents could not otherwise afford the shool fees.

Latest Income: £115,081
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Ruth Sutton Trust For Music

Arts, Education, Research

To advance, promote and develop appreciation of the art and science of music in all its aspects for the benefit of individuals resident within a 30 mile radius of BB8 0RY. To award scholarships, bursaries or maintenance to persons in respect of their musical education who reside in approved geographical limits (30 mile radius of BB8 0RY) to assist in the entry and furtherance of a musical career.

Latest Income: £113,722
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Arthur Thomson Charitable Trust

Education

The charities principal aim is, and continues to provide support and encouragement to students of medicine & dentistry in the form of scholarships, prizes, equipment and other facilities associated with their educational development who are currently studying MBChB and BDS at Birmingham Medical School and the School of Dentistry.

Latest Income: £113,492
Areas of Operation: Birmingham City
Status: Registered
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Fowey Grammar School Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education

The object of the charity is to advance the education of children and young people in the area of benefit. Financial assistance is given to both Fowey Primary School & Fowey River Academy (previously Fowey Community College) and individual students under the age of 25 who qualify for awards in the form of annual bursaries and grants.

Latest Income: £113,026
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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The Doris Gregory Trust

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Research

The award of grants, at the trustees' discretion to North London Collegiate School for Girls, for the advancement of science and music at the school, and for the awards of scholarships and bursaries to pupils at the school.

Latest Income: £113,015
Areas of Operation: Harrow
Status: Registered
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Mona Hatoum Foundation

Education

The Foundation provides yearly bursaries to three Central Saint Martins postgraduate students.Safe keeps and conserves the artworks belonging to the Foundation. Makes loans of the artworks to public institutions in the UK and abroad.Maintains the artist's physical archive and aims to digitise it.

Latest Income: £113,010
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Q. Learning Nepal Trust CIO

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

To advance the education of young people living in the Hangdewa region of Nepal and neighbouring areas in such ways as the charity trustees think fit, including (but not limited to) by: (a) making grants and providing facilities for schools in Nepal, (b) awarding to such persons scholarships, maintenance allowances or grants in order to further their education.

Latest Income: £112,850
Areas of Operation: Nepal
Status: Registered
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Finhumf

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education

Promoting and supporting Urban Youth work and bursaries and apprenticeships for young people

Latest Income: £112,546
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Logos Trust

Education

Accepts gifts, donations, bequests and other income.Makes donations and loans to The Logos Educational Institute, a company registered in Cyprus, or such other body for the promotion of the Trusts objects.Establish and fund scholarships.Acquire land and buildings necessary for the furtherance of the charities objects.

Latest Income: £111,585
Areas of Operation: Cyprus
Status: Registered
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Village By Village Limited

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

Small charity, making a big difference.A highly cost-effective, UK-based charity working in African villages to reduce needless suffering of children in poverty by working directly with beneficiaries living in impoverished rural communities in Ghana, West Africa. Village by Village builds rural schools, provides practical sanitation measures, awards child scholarships and digs wells.

Latest Income: £111,320
Areas of Operation: Ghana
Status: Registered
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African Childrens Educational Trust

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

To alleviate the poverty of vulnerable Ethiopian children, generally orphans, the disabled/ abandoned - through long-term self-sustaining educational initiatives - giving them more choices & access to enhanced opportunities to enable them to lead better, brighter & more productive lives. Through local partners we give individual scholarships & help upgrade/build government elementary schools.

Latest Income: £110,588
Areas of Operation: Ethiopia
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 1,607 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 (£786.0m). 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 £41.4bn 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 88.5%. 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 £743k. 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.