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Environment Charities That specialise in Climate emergency

Discover 27 Environment charities that specialise in climate emergency. Use the search below to filter within these results.

27
Charities
£1,608,149,244
Total Income
£3,288,649
Avg Income
70.4%
Program Ratio

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

Greenpeace Environmental Trust

Environment, Research

The Trust aims to achieve its objectives by funding work that includes education, scientific research, investigations and promoting sustainable development.In the medium to long term we are prioritising work in the areas of Climate change, Forests, and Oceans.We work closely with other Greenpeace entities around the world so as to maximise the impact of our charitable work.

Latest Income: £13,356,195
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Centre For Sustainable Energy

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment, Housing

CSE's mission is to advance sustainable energy policy and practice. CSE seeks energy solutions that engage people and communities to meet real needs for both environmentally sound and affordable energy services. Ending the misery of cold homes and enabling action to tackle the threat of climate change are core objectives.Work is delivered in partnership with many agencies.

Latest Income: £11,707,128
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Chartered Institution Of Building Services Engineers

Education, Environment, Social welfare

CIBSE publishes authoritative, internationally recognised Guidance and Codes and sets the criteria for best practice in building services engineering, with particular emphasis on the response to climate change. CIBSE accredits courses of study in further and higher education, approves work-based training programmes and provides routes to full professional registration.

Latest Income: £11,083,626
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Groundwork Cheshire Lancashire & Merseyside

Beneficiary group, Environment

Groundwork delivers projects and programmes that can help: Building safer stronger communities, Helping young people realise their potential, Promoting health and well being, Reducing carbon emissions and tackling climate change, Supporting local skills and enterprise

Latest Income: £6,884,300
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The National Energy Foundation

Environment

The National Energy Foundation is an independent charity working to improve the use of energy in buildings in the UK. It does this through undertaking projects, often in collaboration with others; supporting the provision of affordable warmth; providing capacity building programmes, for example in building performance evaluation and labelling; and offering information and advice.

Latest Income: £3,428,925
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Lincolnshire Agricultural Society

Economic and community development, Environment

Hold an annual Agricultural Show. Raise awareness and activate and respond to climate change amongst the whole community through the Epic project. Develop and maintain links with the educational sector to encourage participation and increased knowledge within the community, develop and maintain links with regional food producers, develop and maintain links within the community.

Latest Income: £2,925,278
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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The Gaia Foundation

Environment

Gaia works to revive bio-cultural diversity, to regenerate healthy ecosystems and to strengthen community ecological governance for climate change resilience. We work with partner organisations, communities and movements. Our activities focus on Food, Seed and Climate Change Resilience, Sacred Lands and Wilderness, Earth Jurisprudence, and looking Beyond Extractivism.

Latest Income: £1,720,931
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Freshfield Foundation

Environment, Saving of lives

The provision of grant funding to other charities with particular emphasis on those involved in the general fields of sustainable development, climate change mitigation and overseas disaster relief.

Latest Income: £925,443
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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H C D Memorial Fund

Charitable activities, Environment, Housing

Making grants for charitable purposes at home and overseas, primarily towards the relief of human need, and including projects which aim to mitigate the effects of Climate Change

Latest Income: £749,231
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Owen Smith Charitable Trust

Environment, Heritage, Leisure

To: -Educate and inform the public about nature, wildlife, food & nutrition. -Teach people how to grow healthy nutritious food -Enhance health & wellbeing through access to true nature-Provide habitat for indigenous wildlife to help reverse species extinction -Research gardening techniques with the potential to restore soil health and store atmospheric carbon to mitigate climate change

Latest Income: £240,000
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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Barnsbury Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment

Addressing climate change by grant making to environmental organisations mainly focused on regenerative agriculture and sustainable farming practices.

Latest Income: £232,038
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Converging World

Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

We are a charity that promotes sustainable development, conservation of the environment and poverty alleviation. We support our activities through donations and programme related investment in renewable energy. The charity has invested in 12.9MW of wind energy in India. We use the surplus income from these investments to support social and environmental initiatives both in the UK and overseas.

Latest Income: £103,971
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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The Fuellers Charitable Trust Fund

Economic and community development, Environment

The support of education and research in the fields of gas, electricity, nucleur and renewable energy technology and conservation and to award prizes to recognized educational authorites.

Latest Income: £55,682
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Global Footsteps

Environment

Global Footsteps is an educational charity whose mission is to focus on sustainable living and climate change through awareness raising, mutual learning and research. Specifically in Kenya to engage with community groups to help build economic independence that mitigates climate change and to work locally with like minded organisations to support ethical and sustainable projects.

Latest Income: £46,554
Areas of Operation: Kenya
Status: Registered
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Margaret Hayman Charitable Trust Fund

Charitable activities, Environment

Makes grants in areas determined by Trustees from time to time. Current focus is on the intersection between climate change and social justice in low income countries.

Latest Income: £45,823
Areas of Operation: Burkina Faso
Status: Registered
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Beechwood Hall And Rural Park

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Environment, Facilities, Leisure

Developing and efficiently managing the hall and grounds for the benefit of residents of Hamsey parish, with particular emphasis on meeting the needs of children, young people, older and more vulnerable people. Initiating and responding to ideas which practically support social, arts, cultural and physical activities. Promoting the use of sustainable and renewable energy and materials.

Latest Income: £23,877
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Campden Society

Economic and community development, Environment, Facilities, Heritage

To secure the protection of architectural & historical quality of Campden,its open spaces and its natural settingTo promote high standards of planning, architecture and landscaping in CampdenTo stimulate interest in and concern for the character & beauty of CampdenTo promote awareness of the climate emergency,push for zero carbon solutions and protect terrestrial biodiversity, within Campden

Latest Income: £16,093
Areas of Operation: Gloucestershire
Status: Registered
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Unit For Research Into Changing Institutions

Environment

The threat of, and response to, the possibility of dangerous/catastrophic climate change provides the most important current focus for the purpose of the Trust, as it will ultimately be the response of humankind to those perceived future threats and opportunities which will govern society's ability to survive. This has been the main focus of our research, its dissemination, education & application

Latest Income: £11,581
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Zvi Hans Schloss Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Environment, Social welfare

Makes grants to Registered Charities and Non-Profit Organisations in support of Education, Health, Religion, the Relief of Poverty, and the Amelioration of the Deleterious Effects of Climate Change, anywhere in the World.Please note that the policy of the charity is that we do not respond to any unsolicited appeals.

Latest Income: £10,142
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Janelaw Trust

Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

support for organisations working in the fields of environmental sustainability, climate change mitigation, wildlife and wilderness conservation, organic agriculture, fairtrade, renewable energy, and relief of poverty and disease in developing countries.

Latest Income: £9,961
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Steeple Ashton Women's Institute

Associations, Beneficiary group, Environment, Health, Social welfare

We meet as a group once a month.We enjoy informative & educational talks on a wide range of subjects & social occasions.Outings are arranged during the year and we vote on annual resolutions that our National Federation take forward and action to help raise awareness on such diverse issues as:Maternity; Equal pay; Waste & poverty; Carers; Mental Health; Climate Change; Plastic Soup; Ovarian Cancer

Latest Income: £3,399
Areas of Operation: Wiltshire
Status: Registered
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Global Environment Centre - Europe

Environment

Global Environment Centre - Europe is part of the overall Global Environment Centre network which supports actions to address environmental issues of global importance including climate change, biodiversity, water resources and sustainable development.

Latest Income: £2,680
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Little Leigh Women's Institute

Arts, Associations, Beneficiary group, Environment

The W.I. plays an unique role in providing women with educational opportunities and the chance to build new skills, to take part in a wide variety of activities and learn new crafts. Its concerns range from climate change to cooking, from crafts to community projects, from traditional values to new friendships.

Latest Income: £2,591
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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Lockswood Women's Institute

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Environment, Facilities, Housing

Monthly meetings for ladies of all ages with speakers about diversified subjects (eg ecology, nature, antiques, climate change etc). Fund raising for less fortunate women of the world. Outings to stately homes and gardens. Walking, scrabble, poetry, craft groups within our WI.

Latest Income: £1,758
Areas of Operation: Southampton City
Status: Registered
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Thropton Women's Institute

Associations, Beneficiary group, Education, Environment

Supports local community. Helps further education within community. Supports resolutions to government to try to improve climate change. Environment & other areas - different resolutions submitted yearly. Provides meeting place for local people to air their views.

Latest Income: £1,402
Areas of Operation: Northumberland
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many climate-emergency environment charities are there in the UK?

There are 27 registered climate-emergency environment charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the climate-emergency environment charities by income?

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds is the largest by latest reported annual income (£195.0m). 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 climate-emergency environment charities?

Climate-emergency environment charities reported a combined annual income of £1.6bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for climate-emergency environment charities?

Across all climate-emergency environment charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 70.4%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of climate-emergency environment charities?

Climate-emergency environment charities have an average annual income of £3.3m. 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.