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.
The Alexandra Trust
Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfareThe charity gives grants to other charities or voluntary organisations to help to relieve the effects of poverty and homelessness. We do not give grants to individuals.
The English Sector Of The Congregation Of Working Sisters Of The Holy House Of Nazareth
Beneficiary group, Crime and Justice, Health, Housing, ReligionFor the last 50 years we have been supporting primarily the Italian community as well as other ethnic communities in the city. We visit the sick (home/hospital). Our house is a place of prayer for those in need. We support Catholic Chaplaincy in prison as well as visiting people in work places and are involved in youth programs. We also support special projects in Africa & Brazil.
Charity Of Frances Wilson
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfareProvision of almshouses for the poor women of Stanmore
The Retreat
Beneficiary group, HousingThe charity runs a group of seven almshouses for elderly people.
John Sugars Almshouse Charity
Beneficiary group, HousingJohn Sugars Almshouses are for widows aged fifty five years or over, who have lived in the parishes of All Saints South Lynn, or St. Margarets or St. Johns, King's Lynn, for three years.
The Eden Cottages Trust
Beneficiary group, HousingCharity owners and operates an almshouse in Ivybridge on the outskirts of Plymouth City, Devon for the benefit of the elderly.
Baptist Housing Trust
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, ReligionProvides grants for amenities to housing schemes belonging to English Churches Housing Group or for Baptist ministers or missionaries and their widows or widowers living in residential accommodation provided by a charitable organisation connected with the Baptist Union of Great Britain or with BMS World Mission
Mrs Gells Almshouse Charity
Beneficiary group, HousingAlm's house providing housing for the elderly.
Lady Lucie Reynell's Charity
Beneficiary group, Housing, Professions, Religion, Social welfareProvision of Housing for those of limited means of the Church of England resident in Devon with a preference given to Clergy, their wives/husbands and widows/widowers or if no suitable applicant to a poor person in Devon with a preference given to widows
The Fordham Memorial Homes
HousingMaintaining 1 house and 4 flats for letting to local residents who have financial need
Gramer Cottages
HousingAlmshouse accommodation for people over the age of 60 years
Little Baddow Almshouses
HousingTo maintain six almshouse properties for our beneficiaries whose criteria include being over the age of 18 years, being connected to Little Baddow, Essex, and capable of independent living.
St Etheldreda’s Bedford Trust
Beneficiary group, HousingThe income from the Trust is applied for the purpose of advancing the work of deaconesses and female deacons within the Diocese of St Albans under the guidance of the Lord Bishop of that Diocese.
Mrs Alice Lilian Nash Will Trust
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfareAccommodation provision, maintenance of housing or holidays for poor ladies/gentleman of London. The prevention or relief of poverty. Trustees Do Not accept any unsolicited applications
Molesworth Eventide Homes
Housing'the establishment and maintenance of the Eventide Homes at Ketton aforesaid for the use and benefit of deserving persons of either sex who in their declining years are unable to provide themselves with a home . . . (such) homes to be occupied by old residents of Ketton aforesaid who may through ill health, adversity or misfortune be in reduced circumstances . . . '
Brocklebank Preservation Society Limited
Charity and VCS support, Heritage, HousingAs custodians of the Motor Tug Brocklebank on behalf of the Mersey Maritime Museum, the volunteers maintain this historic vessel in a mechanically and structurally sound and smart condition, all necessary insurances, surveys and dues being paid and bring credit to the museum when both in and away from her home port.
The Cockin Charity
HousingProvision of four houses for accommodation.
The Dawes Homes
HousingTo provide homes for aged folk of modest means and the trust makes no grants
Grantham's Almshouses
Beneficiary group, HousingProvides housing for elderly (aged 55 or over) people in need.
Goodacre's Almshouse Charity
Beneficiary group, HousingManage accommodation for single women in need
The Hebden Wright Almshouses
Housing, Religion, Social welfareTo provide almshouses for poor aged persons who are inhabitants of the ecclesiastical parish of St John The Evangelist ingrow with Hainworth near Keighley.
Emily Bentley Homes
Beneficiary group, HousingTo provide accommodation for older people who are in need and who live in the Bradford and Harrogate area.
The Second Quothquan Charitable Trust
HousingIn addition to continuing to provide administration services to related charities and rented social housing, it has received a significant gift the larger part of which has designated towards property acquisition.
Kennington Parochial Charity
Facilities, Housing, Social welfare1/PROVISION OF ALLOTMENTS FOR THE POOR.2/THE PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSES FOR THE NEEDY.3/ FOR THE BENEFIT OF RESIDENTS IN THE ALMSHOUSES OF THE CHARITY, WHO SHALL BE NEEDY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT. 4/ TO RELIEVE EITHER GENERALLY OR INDIVIDUALLY NEEDY PERSONS RESIDENT IN THE AREA OF BENEFIT.
The Strange And Amory Almshouse Charity
Heritage, HousingProvision of accommodation to persons of pensionable age. Maintenance and repair of said accommodation at Haycroft House, Meddon Street, Bideford - a block of six one bedroom flats
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.