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.
Wrestlingworth Goodwill Fund
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Education, Health, Saving of livesGoodwill activities to our 4 villages including: Car ambulance service providing transport to local doctors, dentists and hospitals when villager unable to drive; various goodwill activities for pensioners such as an afternoon tea and Christmas parcels; and donations to individuals and local organisations including the school. Fundraising events such as an annual fete and occasional quiz night
Transcendental Meditation Programme Wales
Education, HealthInformation about and instruction in Transcendental Meditation (TM) as taught by Maharishi Yogi. Offers improved health, wellbeing and development of higher states of consciousness for the individual and society through TM, advanced techniques, Ayur Veda and Stapathya Veda. Offers Consciousness Based Education by providing TM to schools and other educational establishments.
North Stafforshire Basics Doctors
Health, LeisureNorth Staffs Basics is a voluntary organisation which provides skilled medical care or help at the site of an accident or other medical emergency, or in transit to hospital, in and around North Staffordshire area.
Tower Hamlets Deaf Childrens Society
Beneficiary group, HealthTo empower the Deaf children of Tower Hamlets and their families. We believe Deaf children should be valued by society and given the same opportunities as any other child.We are a support network, who strives to support Deaf children, young people and their families. We offer help to parents who may feel isolated within the community
The Exmouth And District Talking Newspaper
Arts, HealthWe record on audio equipment extracts from local newspapers. Copies are sent to those with sight impairment in this district, i.e. those with difficulties in reading those newspapers. We also send an audio magazine to these listeners. This contains miscellaneous items of interest.
Powys Talking Newspaper
Arts, HealthProvides a talking Newspaper (tapes) to the Blind
Jat
Beneficiary group, Health, ReligionJAT provides support and counselling for Jewish people living with HIV and their families/carers. It also promotes awareness of sexual health issues; provides outreach and education & challenges stigma about STIs and HIV in & outside the Jewish community.
Molesey Care
HealthWe are a neighbourhood charity that provides practical help and support to people who need it in East and West Molesey. Taking anyone in genuine need to doctors, hospital appointments, libraries, hairdressers and other personal appointments.
Art Research Creativity And Health
Arts, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health, Housing, Research, Social welfareARCH aims to promote the relationship between the arts & medicine & educate the public in how these may be used to protect & preserve health. The charity arranges fundraising events which fund concerts for patients & staff in hospitals, hospices & old people's homes in England, Scotland & Wales, as well as supporting projects for children in deprived areas.
Sound Waves
HealthProvison of audio material for Blind and Partially Sighted people.
Cymdeithas Ceredigion I'r Deillion / Ceredigion Association For The Blind
HealthSupporting the needs of the blind and partially sighted living within the county of Ceredigion. Working in conjunction with Ceredigion Social Services, and Wales Council for the Blind.
The Valerie Callis Trust Fund
Charitable activities, HealthThe charity makes grants to charitable organisations promoting mental health
Milton Keynes Hospital Radio Service
Arts, HealthMilton Keynes Hospital Radio provides a 24 hours a day, 7 days a week broadcasting service to the patients within Milton Keynes General Hospital. We are a non-profit organisation relying on money raised through membership, funding raising & kind donations.
Samuel Warneford Needy Patients Fund
HealthTo provide help and assistance to needy previous patients of the Warneford General Hospital who have been transferred to the South Warwickshire General Hospitals NHS Trust and to patients now being treated by the South Warwickshire Hospitals.
Skinship (uk)
Charitable activities, HealthWe operate an award winning, confidential, general dermatology helpline, which provides information and/or support to anyone who has any kind of skin problem,including all types of skin cancer.
Surrey Sinfonietta (community Music)
Arts, Education, HealthProvision of educational and therapeutic services related to music. including concerts, recitals and workshops in schools, hospitals, institutional accommodation and general public. Music services to community groups and societies. Organising local amateur music groups and societies.The Charity provides music workshop days for school age students (South London Music Days)
The Forget Me Not Trust
Beneficiary group, HealthTo provide treats and morale boosters for children and young people who are suffering from a chronic illness or are terminally ill.
The Richard Jenner Memorial Trust
HealthThe Charity aims to help patients suffering from cancer. It provides welfare and facilities for such patients. The Charity also works to promote research into cancer to supplement the services provided by hospitals for the treatment of cancer.
Five Valley Sounds
HealthTO RELIEVE THE BLIND, OR THE PARTIALLY SIGHTED, OR THOSE LABOURING UNDER SOME TEMPORARY OR PERMANENT INCAPACITY OR DISABILITY WHICH MAKES READING A STRAIN, ESPECIALLY BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY WITHIN THE STROUD DISTRICT, BY THE PROVISION OF WEEKLY RECORDED MEDIA.
The Philip Allison Foundation
Health, Research, Social welfareThe charity provides facilities for research (1) to investigate the problems that arise in the day to day treatment of diseases (2) to carry out research to develop new surgical methods of alleviation or cure of disease and (3) to teach new concepts for the treatment of diseases. It is currently doing this by way of supporting the Islet Isolation facility at the Nuffield Dept of Surgery.
League Of Friends Of Molesey Hospital
Associations, HealthTo relieve patients and former patients of Molesey Hospital and other invalids in the community who are sick, convalescent, disabled, handicapped or infirm and generally to support the work of the hospital
The Rotary Club Of Cheadle Royal Charitable Trust
Associations, Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Health, Saving of livesCharitable work in the community especially for the elderly including dementia sufferers & their carers and young people and also fund raising for local charities. Through Rotary International we are involved in the provision of services elsewhere in the world including disaster areas through the provision of Shelter and Emergency boxes, polio eradication, shoe boxes for under-privileged children.
Peterborough And District Talking Newspaper Association
Arts, HealthProvides a weekly summary of items from the local weekly newspaper in a recorded digital format for the use of visually impaired listeners
Colchester Society For The Blind
HealthTo help the blind and partially sighted and defective sighted persons resident in the Borough of Colchester in Essex, and to do all such other charitable things as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of the above.
The Castle Hill Hospital Cancer Trust Fund
Health, ResearchTHE PURCHASE OR HIRE OF EQUIPMENT REQUIRED FOR USE IN INVESTIGATING, TREATING OR ALLEVIATING THE SUFFERING OF ANY CANCER PATIENT IN THE NORTH HUMBERSIDE OR SCARBOROUGH REGION OR FOR PURPOSES OF RESEARCH LEADING TO THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICAL SCIENCE IN THE FIELD OF RADIOTHERAPY AND ONCOLOGY GENERALLY.
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.