Housing Charities
Discover 3,243 Housing charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.
Notable charities in this sector
Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.
Building Societies Trust Limited
Charitable activities, HousingTo promote and advance the education of the public in commercial and financial subjects with particular regard to money management, housing, home ownership and building society and related matters by providing facilities for such education, providing information and advice on such matters, conducting research and publishing the useful results of each research.
The Simon Community
Charitable activities, HousingWe support and campaign for people who are homeless, or rootless and particularly those for whom no other provision exists.
The Abbeyfield (camborne) Society Limited
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social carePROVIDING SUPPORTED SHELTERED HOUSING FOR INDEPENDENT ELDERLY PEOPLE.
Shaftesbury Municipal Almshouse Charity
HousingTo provide accommodation for persons in need, who are resident in the Parishes of Shaftesbury, Cann, Motcombe, Stour Provost, Margaret Marsh, Fontmell Magna, Compton Abbas and Donhead St. Mary.
Mrs G A H Grundy's Charity
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfareThe charity is restricted to housing persons in need over 60 years of age who are regarded as poor and deserving persons of the middle class as defined in the will of Mrs Grundy establishing the Almshouses.
Brighton Greyhound Owners Association Trust For Retired Racing Greyhounds
Animals, Housing, LeisureThe charity founded in 1978 to care for retired racing Greyhounds and supervise their placement into happy permanent retirement pet homes. The charity supports a dedicated rehoming kennels to care for Greyhounds awaiting rehoming.
The Commonalty Charity Lands
Housingprovide affordable housing to local residents on low incomes
Sir John Perrot Trust
HousingThe improvement of the town and architectural facilities of Haverfordwest. Provision of low cost housing to individuals in Haverfordwest.
Lighthouse International Ministries
Beneficiary group, Housing, Religion, Social careLighthouse International Ministries (LIM) is a network of churches and individuals throughout Great Britain and Ireland that supports people and projects in Romania, India and Africa i.e. children's homes, youth camps, leprosy missions. LIM's heart is to strengthen, equip and facilitate indigenous people who have good ideas but have very limited resources.
The Almshouse Of St John The Baptist And St John The Evangelist
Beneficiary group, Housing, Religion, Social careProvides accommodation for 17 elderly residents plus one room available for respite care
Ellys Extra Care Limited
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social careProvision of residential care services, Supported Living services, Day Care and Theraputic services and housing and Support to adults with a Learning Disability. The training of staff to enable us to provide these services to our main client group. provision of housing for the use of Supported Living
The Foresters Homes Trust
Housing, Social careSHELTERED HOUSING
Jesus Hospital
Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Health, Housing, Social welfareThe object of the charity is to provide almshouses for poor men, not less than sixty years of age and of good character who are resident in the County of Northamptonshire and preferably in the Urban district of Rothwell, at the time of appointment. A total of ten almshouses are available to meet this object.
Iford United Reformed Church (trust Funds And Property Held In Connexion Therewith)
Housing, ReligionTo foster in the congregation concern for witness and service to the community evangelism at home and abroad, Christian education, Ecumenical action, local inter-church relations and the wider responsibilities of the whole church.
Henry Wood Accommodation Trust
Arts, Charitable activities, Education, HousingTo advance the education of students attending colleges or courses in London for the purpose of receiving instruction in music, particularly those attending the Royal Academy of Music, Royal College of Music, the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and Trinity Laban by making grants or otherwise to needy or deserving students to assist them with the cost of accommodation.
Nicholas Swallow And Others
HousingProvision of financial and other help to those in need in the parish of Whittlesford, nr Cambridge. The Charity owns 14 residential units which are let to people with a strong connection with the Village, who must show that they need housing.
Father Love Trust
Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education, HousingUse of the property at 7 Brownswood Road, N4 2HP to provide accommodation for post-graduate full-time overseas students.A Day Nursery for children under fives, opens Monday to Friday, 8.20am to 6 pm.A Saturday Supplementary School for pupils between the ages of six and eleven. Tuition in Maths, English, Spanish and French is provided.Facilities are provided for a Domino Club for elderly men.
The Alice Gough Memorial Homes
HousingTo provide accomodation to men and women who are in need of assistance and who have resided or been employed in the Parish of Easthampstead or the new Parish of Bracknell for period of not less than fifteen years.
Thatcham Parochial Almshouse Charity
Beneficiary group, HousingPROVISION AND UPKEEP OF ALMSHOUSES FOR THE ELDERLY RESIDENTS OF THE ANCIENT PARISH OF THATCHAM.I.E. THATCHAM,GREENHAM,MIDGHAM AND COLD ASH.
Florence Ellison Trust
Beneficiary group, HousingProvision of homes for old persons of small means who have need of such facilities by reason of age or infirmity
Municipal Charities
Housing, Social welfareTo serve residents and organisations of the City of Lichfield in a charitable capacity provision of Alms houses and help with the poor and needy.
The W T Jinkin Trust Home
Beneficiary group, HousingThe charity provides secure accommodation for elderly ladies in the Plymouth and East Cornwall area.
Churches In Reading Drop-In Centre
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfareCIRDIC runs two day Centres. One caters for the spritual emotional and practical needs of adults who are homeless or in poor accommodation by providing food, clothing and warmth as well as medical and practical advice and art therapy. The second Centre caters for women with special physical and emotional needs by providing warmth, food, companionship and advice.
Scarborough Trinity House Seafarers' Trust
HousingTo provide almshouse accomodation, in the form of 25 one bedroomed flats across 2 sites in Scarborough, to persons of limited means. Principally retired seafarers and their dependents.
The Francis W Reckitt Arts Trust
Arts, Charitable activities, HousingTo provide grants towards board and accommodation costs for men and women professionally engaged in literature, music or the fine arts, where those in need would be able to work or rest in peaceful surroundings for short periods.
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many housing charities are there in the UK?
There are 3,243 registered housing charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.
Which is the largest of the housing 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 housing charities?
Housing charities reported a combined annual income of £8.8bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.
What is a typical program ratio for housing charities?
Across all housing charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 90.6%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.
What is the average annual income of housing charities?
Housing charities have an average annual income of £2.3m. 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.