Health Charities
Discover 3,316 Health charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.
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Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.
One To One Project
Beneficiary group, Education, HealthCounselling, Mentoring and Group Work with individuals experiencing mental health difficulties, including the parents and carers of adults and children suffering from mental health problems or emotional distress.
The Alice Cross Centre
Arts, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Health, Leisure, Social welfareTo further the well-being of older people and the wider community in Teignmouth/Shaldon by supporting healthy living, through the provision of a community centre with meals (including a meal delivery service), activities and clubs. Activities include: fitness classes, table tennis, oriental dancing, music sessions, a memory cafe, digital skills, bingo, cookery classes, craft and social events.
Interact Chelmsford Limited
Beneficiary group, Health, Leisure, Social welfareActivities & opportunities to support children & young people with additional needs/disabilities, their families/carers & the wider community. Including training & workshops to improve peoples' emotional, mental health & well-being; friendship, leisure & learning clubs & activities, befriending & peer support; increasing awareness & reducing the stigma associated with disability.
West Wales Action For Mental Health
Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Education, Health, Housing, Social welfareWorking together with service users, carers, voluntary organisations, statutory providers and commissioners to improve the standards of mental health throughout West Wales. Has helped to develop projects for self help groups, drop in services, befriending schemes, housing, employment, carer and user groups, advocacy and patient's councils
The Merephdi Foundation
Charity and VCS support, HealthRaising funds for hospitals in Israel and transferring them to the beneficiaries
The Friends Of Guy's And St Thomas' Hospital
Associations, HealthThe charity provides amenities to improve the comfort of the patients & staff of Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Medical research is also supported & substantial grants made for works of improvement benefiting patients, staff & visiting relatives. The charity is able, from time to time, to purchase medical & surgical equipment which the Trust is unable to fund from its own budget.
Swindon Therapy Centre For Multiple Sclerosis
Associations, Health, Leisure, Social welfareAn inclusive charity dedicated to helping people lead happy, healthy, independent lives. Primarily known for supporting those with neurological conditions, some therapies help other conditions too. The Centre provides practical therapies, including hyperbaric oxygen, physio-led gym, exercise, yoga, pilates and tai chi classes, counselling and social activities.
Wellspring Counselling Limited
HealthThe advancement of health primarily by the provision of community based counselling to those in need thereof and by assisting the training of counsellors working for the charity.
Skylight Circus In Education
Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, HealthLife-changing social circus projects improve health and well-being.Collaborations: professionals and members create productions.Fully accessible circus school/studio theatre, Rochdale.Regular classes: circus, aerial, performance.Outreach.Specialisms: circus with disability, mental health, challenging young people, diversityAddress challenges in communities with multiple deprivation.
The E H Smith Charitable Trust
Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Health, LeisureWe respond to appeals from charities such as hospices, youth clubs, junior football groups, Princes Trust, local school activities, also religious groups and sponser fundraising efforts of various kinds etc.
Homelands Charitable Trust
Beneficiary group, Health, ReligionTo support a wide range of charitable causes together with special emphasis towards contributions to the General Conference of the New Church, Medical Research, Care and Protection of Children and Hospices.
Garth Youth Project
Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education, Health, Leisure, Social welfareA community and young people's project for socialising, education and recreational activities. Youth club operates at least three evenings each week during term time. Counselling service for young people. After school homework club, with sporting activities.Evening meals for young people as part of healthy eating plan. Provision of training to young people currently excluded from school.
Reading Centre For The Deaf
Beneficiary group, HealthPROVIDES THE INTEREST AND WELFARE OF DEAF AND HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE. PROVIDES ACTIVITES AND FACILITIES TAILORED TO THE VARIED NEEDS OF HEARING IMPAIRED PEOPLE IN THE AREA/GROUPS. INCLUDES YOUNG PEOPLE, ADULTS, SENIOR CITIZENS, FAMILIES. COLLECTS AND DISSEMINATES INFORMATION TO THE DEAF COMMUNITY AND HEARING IMPAIRED.
Daventry Information And Counselling Service (time To Talk)
Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Social welfareFree therapeutic counselling. Free condoms, pregnancy testing and Chlamydia screening, range of information and agents for local Food bank, services for those in the old Daventry District, South Northants areas of West Northants. Counselling is STRICTLY by appointment and we DO NOT provide emergency services. We work with those aged 13-18-up to 25 with a SEND. We don't offer home visits.
Mccabe Educational Trust
Education, Health, Housing, Social careThe McCabe Educational Trust is the charitable partner to McCabe Pilgrimages. We aim to give something back to the many inspiring people we meet on pilgrimage. We do this with practical financial support for childrens homes, schools for the blind, rehabilitation hospitals and similar projects.
Redemptoris Mater House Of Formation
Beneficiary group, Health, Professions, ReligionThe charity runs a House of Formation to train missionary priests for the Diocese of Westminster. It also supports pastoral activities carried out in the UK and abroad by the students in formation, by the staff and by the priests who have been ordained: evangelisation, catechesis, liturgical ministry, assistance to families, to elderly and housebound, hospital chaplaincy, etc.
The Medical Society Of London
Education, Health, ResearchThe Society seeks to promote the advancement of the sciences of medicine, surgery, and those branches of science connected therewith. It does this through an academic programme of lectures, symposia and awarding bursaries and financial assistance to medical students and the award of prizes for significant contributions to medicine.
Dharmachakra
Arts, Associations, Health, ReligionThe charity archives, and makes available for free download, text, audio and video files of Buddhist teachings. It also makes available free online resources for all on Buddhist approaches to mindfulness, meditation and life.
League Of Friends, Ealing Hospital
Associations, HealthPROVISION OF ASSISTANCE - MEDICAL EQUIPMENT ETC - TO PATIENTS AND STAFF OF EALING HOSPITAL.
Wythenshawe Hospital Transplant Fund
HealthThe objectives of the charity are the relief of sickness and the preservation and protection of good health by the provision of finacial assistance to the programme of heart and lung transplantation and future clinical developments in heart and lung surgery at the Wythenshawe Hospital, Manchester.
Free Methodist Church, Garstang
Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Religion, Social careOur aim is to spread the message and love of Jesus to as many as possible through worship, Bible teaching and prayer. We provide free weekly activities for children and teenagers, meetings for the elderly in local residential homes, debt counselling, parenting classes, help to the homeless and financial aid to organisations in line with our aims at home and abroad.
Ewing Foundation
Beneficiary group, HealthThe charity supports the natural aural approach to the education of deaf children with its educational consultants and audiological technicians.
Dial - Gt Yarmouth
HealthDIAL offers a free, impartial and confidential information and advice service for disabled and vulnerable people and their carers within the Borough of Great Yarmouth. Advice regarding state benefits, including full benefit checks and assistance with benefit applications. Debt Counselling including negotiating with creditors, formulation of debt management plans and assistance with budgeting.
The Archway Foundation
Health, Social welfareAims to relieve distress caused by loneliness and social isolation. Offers social gatherings and one-to-one support service to those experiencing loneliness. Aims to prevent mental health deterioration affected by social isolation.
West Yorkshire MS Therapy Centre Limited
Associations, HealthTo maintain and offer support and therapies to sufferers of multiple sclerosis, including hyberbaric oxygen, physiotherapy, counselling etc. To promote all research necessary to find the cause, cure and prevention of MS and to aid and to improve the condition of those suffering from it.
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many health charities are there in the UK?
There are 3,316 registered health charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.
Which is the largest of the health charities by income?
Nuffield Health is the largest by latest reported annual income (£1.5bn). 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 health charities?
Health charities reported a combined annual income of £15.2bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.
What is a typical program ratio for health charities?
Across all health charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 87.4%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.
What is the average annual income of health charities?
Health 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.