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Education Charities

Discover 32,755 Education charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

32,755
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.

Methodist Independent Schools Trust

Education

The Methodist Church is engaged in education as part of its Christian mission in the world. Its schools will seek to extend the Methodist ethos and character and contribute to diversity in education.

Latest Income: £116,996,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Northeastern University - London

Education

Provision of Higher Education

Latest Income: £108,117,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Trinity College Cambridge

Arts, Charitable activities, Education, Religion

Provision, along with the University, of education of the highest standard for some 1100 undergraduate and graduate students; maintaining a Chapel, extensive Library, and substantial buildings; promoting research by its Fellows and students; and making grants to others with similar objects. Although situated in Cambridge, Trinity's members come from a very wide range of areas and backgrounds.

Latest Income: £105,509,000
Areas of Operation: Cambridgeshire
Status: Registered
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The Leverhulme Trust

Charitable activities, Education

The Trust provides scholarships and other similar support for education and research. by making grants across a broad range of schemes, by identifying individuals who can demonstrate high-quality scholarship, originality, and excellence, in their chosen research proposal.

Latest Income: £103,690,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The National Autistic Society

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Social care

Campaigning and lobbying.Raising Awareness.Day and residential schools with outreach.Registered adult care homes, plus supported living.A diagnosis and assessment centre, and diagnostic training.Resource Centres.Family support.Social groups.Early intervention and post diagnosis support.Helpline.Education Rights and Welfare Rights services.Supported Employment.Information.

Latest Income: £102,017,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Mill Hill School Foundation

Education

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Latest Income: £98,389,000
Areas of Operation: Barnet
Status: Registered
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Autism Initiatives Group

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education

Group activities are to ;- provide assessment, care, education, employment and meaningful activity to individuals with autism spectrum condition.- provide information and support to individuals with ASC, their families and carers- expand education and care provisionParent company activities are to provide estate, administration and corporate support services to the charitable subsidiaries

Latest Income: £93,062,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Keepers And Governors Of The Possessions, Revenues And Goods Of The Free Grammar School Of John Lyon, Within The Town Of Harrow-On-The-Hill

Education

Provide education of all-round excellence which develops to the full each pupil's potential and life long interests to the benefit of the wider community.

Latest Income: £90,785,000
Areas of Operation: Harrow
Status: Registered
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The Kynge's College Of Our Ladye Of Eton Besyde Windesore

Education, Heritage

Eton College was founded by Henry VI in 1440. Today it is an independent boys' boarding school whose charitable purpose is the advancement of education by the provision, support and conduct of a school and ancillary or incidental educational activities for the benefit of students and/or the wider community; and the preservation and maintenance of the College's historic buildings and Collections.

Latest Income: £88,779,000
Areas of Operation: Windsor And Maidenhead
Status: Registered
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Acs International Schools Limited

Education

ACS's charitable purpose is to advance education in particular by the provision and conduct of schools. ACS aims to operate schools that provide a high-quality education within an internationally diverse context with the highest standards of teaching, pastoral care, facilities and support for students.

Latest Income: £86,717,596
Areas of Operation: Qatar
Status: Registered
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Camfed International

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

Camfed tackles poverty and inequality by supporting girls to go to school and succeed, and empowering young women to step up as leaders of change. Camfed invests in girls and women in the poorest rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa, where girls face acute disadvantage. and where their empowerment is now transforming communities.

Latest Income: £84,638,714
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Sherborne Schools Group

Beneficiary group, Education

The advancement of education, including the provision of boarding and/or schooling for children of either or both sexes in Sherborne.

Latest Income: £83,987,000
Areas of Operation: Dorset
Status: Registered
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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 United Westminster And Grey Coat Foundation

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

Object: to advance education for the public benefit. Achieved by establishing, operating & supporting schools, run in accordance with Christian principles - both state-funded & independent. Formed from five small charity schools, all founded 1594-1674 to benefit poor children in Westminster (Clothworkers' charity school, founded 1576 in Kent later added). Schools today remain in or near London.

Latest Income: £79,344,000
Areas of Operation: Various
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: £77,517,987
Areas of Operation: Croydon
Status: Registered
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The Wellington College

Education, Leisure

The Charity aims to provide a world-class education that will enable its pupils to realise their full potential in academic, sporting, artistic and social skills and to engender in them a spirit of self-confidence, a desire to serve the wider community, an international outlook and an enthusiastic attitude to work and life.

Latest Income: £76,225,000
Areas of Operation: Bracknell Forest
Status: Registered
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Marlborough College

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education

Marlborough College is incorporated by Royal Charter and registered as an education charity. The College provides education for boys and girls for the ages 13-18. The number of pupils in the College averaged 924 of whom 888 were boarders and 36 were day pupils. Under its grant making policy the total number of pupils receiving fee assistance in the academic year 2014/15 was 119.

Latest Income: £73,314,000
Areas of Operation: Malaysia
Status: Registered
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The Harpur Trust

Education, Leisure, Social welfare

A local foundation that uses the legacy of Sir William Harpur, the founder in 1566, to benefit the inhabitants of the Borough of Bedford through the promotion of education; the relief of poverty, sickness and distress; and the provision of recreational facilities with a social welfare purpose.

Latest Income: £72,951,000
Areas of Operation: Bedford
Status: Registered
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Macintyre Care

Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Social care

MacIntyre provides services for adults and children with learning disabilities. These services include schools, colleges, adult learning centres, registered care homes, supported living and other individual support.

Latest Income: £71,169,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Millfield

Beneficiary group, Education, Leisure

The education of children and young people within Millfield School and Millfield Prep School (including Pre-Prep); the development of associated extra-curricular activites; the operation of educational and recreational courses.

Latest Income: £70,659,000
Areas of Operation: Somerset
Status: Registered
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Crisis UK

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Housing

Crisis is the national charity for single homeless people. We are dedicated to ending homelessness by delivering life-changing services and campaigning for change.Our innovative education, employment, housing and well-being services address individual needs and help people to transform their lives.

Latest Income: £67,190,000
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Haberdashers' Aske's Charity

Beneficiary group, Education

To operate schools for boys and girls at Elstree, Hertfordshire, and to support federated Haberdasher Academies in Greater London

Latest Income: £66,630,000
Areas of Operation: Bexley
Status: Registered
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Ruskin Mill Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Education

Ruskin Mill Trust works with vulnerable children and young people that have learning disabilities and difficulties, including autistic spectrum disorders and developmental delay. Our pioneering approach has proved highly successful with specialist schools, colleges and adult social care provision operated by the wider Ruskin Mill Trust group, in England, Scotland and Wales.

Latest Income: £65,468,543
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Charterhouse School

Beneficiary group, Education

To advance education by the provision of a day and boarding school for boys and girls.

Latest Income: £64,815,965
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Bre Trust

Arts, Education

Funds and supports research, education, publications and other activities in the built environment for public benefit. Awards post graduate research scholarships and supports university chairs.Commissions, facilitate and supports carbon emission reduction projects and such other activities and services as are beneficial to the built environment.

Latest Income: £64,804,000
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many education charities are there in the UK?

There are 32,755 registered education charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the 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 education charities?

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 education charities?

Across all 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 education charities?

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.