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Environment Charities That specialise in Climate emergency

Discover 215 Environment charities that specialise in climate emergency. Use the search below to filter within these results.

215
Charities
£3,565,852,575
Total Income
£1,355,837
Avg Income
84.8%
Program Ratio

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

Students Organising For Sustainability

Environment

Students Organising for Sustainability (SOS-UK) is an educational charity created by students and staff at NUS in response to the climate emergency and ecological crisis. We support students to learn, act and lead for sustainability.

Latest Income: £2,539,463
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Carbon Gap LTD

Environment, Research

Carbon Gap is promoting and advancing the science-based case for carbon removal laid out by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and other respected international scientific bodies, and through this, delivering a fundamental component of the IPCC-recommended mitigation strategy for climate change.

Latest Income: £2,450,554
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Dialogue Earth

Environment

The China Dialogue Trust promotes communication across barriers of language and culture on environment and climate change in order to inform, educate and build a global consensus for equitable and constructive solutions to urgent problems. We do this through the production, publication and dissemination of news and analysis.

Latest Income: £2,444,442
Areas of Operation: China
Status: Registered
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Resource Justice Network

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment

Through evidence-based advocacy, research, community empowerment, alliance-building and grant-making, we work with civil society organisations, frontline communities, governments and international institutions in over 50 countries to promote just and equitable governance of oil, gas, minerals and renewable energy.

Latest Income: £2,440,436
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Rewilding Britain

Charitable activities, Environment

Rewilding Britain's vision is to see rewilding flourishing across Britain, reconnecting us with the natural world, sustaining communities and tackling the species extinction crisis and climate emergency. Rewilding Britain champions rewilding and shares its expertise, it influences policy and legislation, it helps get locally-led initiatives off the ground and it connects people and organisations.

Latest Income: £2,404,550
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Marches Energy Advice

Economic and community development, Environment

Marches Energy Agency (MEA) specialises in the delivery of practical, effective and creative ways of promoting and enabling energy reduction and renewable energy solutions.

Latest Income: £2,379,928
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Gorilla Organization

Economic and community development, Environment

Saving gorillas in their natural forest habitat in central Africa: supporting, training and equipping rangers; providing conservation, education and socio-economic development opportunities for local people; planting trees to protect the forest and mitigate climate change.

Latest Income: £1,997,151
Areas of Operation: Congo (Democratic Republic)
Status: Registered
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Community Energy Plus

Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

Through our research, direct action and promotion of sustainable energy use and renewable power generation, we are working to lessen the impacts of climate change, relieve poverty and improve health outcomes. In better understanding existing energy use, our activities benefit the communities we work with, as they learn to conserve and reduce demand and prepare for future energy challenges

Latest Income: £1,897,344
Areas of Operation: Cornwall
Status: Registered
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Julies Bicycle

Environment

Research: a research programme to quantify the environmental impacts of the arts and culture and to identify areas of specific concern. Capacity building: to provide an expert and comprehensive free set of resources covering all aspects of environmental sustainability. Thought leadership: our programme is designed to inspire arts leaders to take action on climate change and the environment.

Latest Income: £1,626,545
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Renewable World

Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

Renewable World tackles poverty through renewable energy. It works in East Africa and South Asia to promote affordable reliable energy services for poor consumers to improve income generation, enterprise development, health & education. Our unique relationship with the Renewable Energy industry allows us to leverage skills, expertise and resources to support and develop our work.

Latest Income: £1,357,506
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Producers Direct

Environment

We work with smallholder farmers in Africa and Latin America to develop innovative solutions to the challenges they face. Activities include strengthening the capacity of smallholders to adapt to climate change; enhance on-farm productivity and incomes; strengthen governance and leadership; improve farmer-to-farmer communications and knowledge sharing.

Latest Income: £1,328,698
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Downforce Trust

Environment

The Downforce Trust promotes action on climate change, specifically through funding research and programmes designed to accelerate the deployment and scaling of known technologies. The Trust has a particular interest in carbon drawdown using nature-based solutions as these are available and scalable today.

Latest Income: £1,326,773
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Climate Parliament

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment

Educate and inform MPs regarding climate change and policy options for promoting renewable energy. Collaborate with development agencies to build capacity of parliaments in developing countries to make policy on climate and clean energy. Build up a network of interested MPs in Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Middle East.

Latest Income: £1,259,630
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Carbon Literacy Trust

Arts, Environment

The Carbon Literacy Project was created to deliver on an objective in Manchester's climate plan to offer everyone who lives, works or studies in the city a day's worth of learning about climate change. This unique and ambitious project is now expanding to underpin action to reduce emissions and accelerate growth in the low-carbon economy across the UK and beyond.

Latest Income: £1,250,787
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Askehave Climate Foundation CIO UK

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment, Saving of lives

Acting as the UK institution of the Askehave Climate Foundation, an independent foundation that funds partners worldwide as they provide humanitarian relief to people impacted by climate disasters, engage in climate policy and activism, and research solutions to combat climate change.

Latest Income: £1,105,061
Areas of Operation: Denmark
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: £1,090,709
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Proforest Initiative

Economic and community development, Environment

Concerned with sustainable production and sourcing of agricultural and forest commodities. Work is delivered through programmes - global level - providing technical support to multi-stakeholder initiatives, using partnerships to develop capacity and innovating approaches for smallholder development - regional level - addressing deforestation, climate change and sustainable economic development.

Latest Income: £1,054,204
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Climate Outreach

Environment

The Climate Outreach Information Network (COIN) is a charity formed in 2004 to directly engage the public about climate change. COIN inspires lasting changes in attitudes and behaviour through the use of innovative action learning methods and by assisting people to communicate their own messages to their peers.

Latest Income: £1,006,781
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Midland International Aid Trust (uk)

Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

We aim to relieve poverty and suffering globally through emergency medical/humanitarian interventions directly or indirectly through individuals/other charities . We also carry out global environmental activities to mitigate the impact of climate change. Through the merger with Doctors of Rahman DOR we have a huge potential now of specialist doctors teaching/operating and fundraising.

Latest Income: £976,962
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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The Co Research Trust

Environment

The principal activity of the charity is to promote gas safety.The key objectives are to further improve gas/fossil fuel safety for the public and industry throughout the United Kingdom and to reduce the incidents of death and serious injury from carbon monoxide exposure.

Latest Income: £890,623
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Mlinda Foundation

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Environment

Mlinda Foundation's focus is to facilitate development of rural electrification projects using renewable energy in India. Communities in project areas had no access to reliable electricity and opportunities to earn income were limited. Initial results from project areas show household income has increased by over 60% through the use of electric-powered equipment in households and for agriculture.

Latest Income: £817,711
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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Engineers Without Borders UK

Environment

Engineers Without Borders UK brings people, ideas and engineering together to address the complex global challenges associated with the effects of climate change, resource depletion, urbanisation and population growth. We primarily work in the UK education sector and with local partners on development projects in sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia and Latin America.

Latest Income: £807,789
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Global Returns Project Limited

Environment

We provide grant-based funding to charitable organizations focussed on combatting climate change. We select them based on a detailed methodology and monitor their effectiveness on an ongoing basis. We work with financial institutions to make it normal and easy for their clients to provide grant funding to these organizations. We educate on issues associated with climate change.

Latest Income: £756,121
Areas of Operation: Various
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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Frequently asked questions about this sector

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

There are 215 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?

Canal & River Trust is the largest by latest reported annual income (£232.6m). 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 £3.6bn 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 84.8%. 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 £1.4m. 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.