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Saving of lives Charities

Discover 2,191 Saving of lives charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

2,191
Charities
£4,239,256,784
Total Income
£1,701,146
Avg Income
78.9%
Program Ratio

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

British Heart Foundation

Beneficiary group, Research, Saving of lives

The BHF is the UK's largest independent funder of cardiovascular research in the UK. For over 60 years BHF has pioneered life-saving research that has helped halve the number of deaths from heart and circulatory disease in the UK. BHF also helps provide vital support and information for the 7.4m people living in the UK with heart and circulatory disease.

Latest Income: £410,600,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Oxfam

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Oxfam's objects are to prevent and relieve poverty and protect the vulnerable anywhere in the world. Oxfam furthers its objects through interlinked activities of humanitarian relief, development work and advocacy and campaigning. Oxfam is an affiliate member of Oxfam International. Details of Oxfam's mission and ways of working can be found at www.oxfam.org.uk

Latest Income: £339,366,903
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Msi Reproductive Choices

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives

MSI Reproductive Choices is one of the world's leading providers of sexual and reproductive healthcare. We believe that everyone should have the right to choose. From contraception to safe abortion and life-saving post- abortion care, we are committed to delivering compassionate, high- quality services. Our 9,000 team members work across 37 countries, reaching over 35,000 women each day.

Latest Income: £309,542,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The British Red Cross Society

Charity and VCS support, Housing, Saving of lives

The British Red Cross helps people in crisis, whoever and wherever they are. We are part of a global network of volunteers, responding to natural disasters, conflicts and individual emergencies.We enable vulnerable people at home and overseas to prepare for and respond to emergencies in their own communities. And when the crisis is over, we help people to recover and move on with their lives.

Latest Income: £287,100,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Royal National Lifeboat Institution

Charitable activities, Heritage, Saving of lives

To save lives, promote safety and rescue service efficiency, and provide relief from disaster at sea and on inland and flood waters; to advance the education of the public in matters relating to sea, inland and flood water safety, and in the history and heritage of the Institution; to relieve/assist those who have been involved in saving lives at sea and on inland and flood waters in any capacity.

Latest Income: £251,300,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Salvation Army Social Work Trust

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Crime and Justice, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Saving of lives

The provision of supported accommodation for homeless people Older peoples housing and supportWork to help unemployed people back into workAnti-Human Trafficking workAddiction Support ServicesOutreach programmes and services to communitiesFamily tracing serviceFrontline assistance to emergency services personnel and people affected by disasters

Latest Income: £239,727,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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International Medical Corps (uk)

Saving of lives, Social welfare

International Medical Corps UK works alongside its affiliate International Medical Corps, responding to humanitarian emergencies and communities afflicted by conflict, poverty and natural disaster in more than thirty countries around the world. It achieves this, through the provision of medical aid, health care training and health care programmes.

Latest Income: £136,357,320
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Watch Tower Bible And Tract Society Of Britain

Arts, Economic and community development, Religion, Saving of lives

1. Provision of facilities to assist full time ministers. 2. Producing material for Bible education, publishing, importing, exporting, recording, translating, producing Bible literature.3. Purchasing, building, and renovating properties for use by Jehovah's Witnesses as places of worship.4. Humanitarian aid. 5. Distributing funds and goods to other entities with similar aims.

Latest Income: £120,653,380
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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International Rescue Committee, U.k

Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Society

The International Rescue Committee UK is an independent British charity, established in 1997 as part of the International Rescue Committee network. The IRC provides emergency relief, protection of human rights, post-conflict reconstruction, resettlement assistance & advocacy to those uprooted or affected by violent conflict, oppression and natural disaster in countries around the world.

Latest Income: £116,519,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Priory Of England And The Islands Of The Most Venerable Order Of The Hospital Of St. John Of Jerusalem

Beneficiary group, Health, Saving of lives

Provide First Aid Training, First Aid Services, Ambulance Services, Youth Services

Latest Income: £106,900,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Human Appeal

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Heritage, Saving of lives

Human Appeal changed its legal structure from a Trust to a Charitable Company (No:1154288). The historical information is available on Charity Commission under (previous Charity Number: 1005733) We aim to provide a holistic approach to humanitarian relief and development:1. Emergency & relief programmes2. Sustainable development3. Orphans programmes4. Social programmes.

Latest Income: £90,246,297
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Amanat Charity Trust

Saving of lives

To provide relief to victims of natural disasters and man made disasters worldwide regardless of colour, race ,ethnicity and to facilitate rehabilitation back into communities by providing sustainable aid concentrating on education and welfare projects

Latest Income: £78,433,146
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Plan International UK

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives

Plan International UK is a global children's charity. We strive to advance children's rights and equality for girls all over the world. We work to give every child the same chance in life by giving children and their communities access to education, healthcare, clean water and more. And if disaster strikes we are there to protect children to keep them learning and help them recover.

Latest Income: £61,680,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Disasters Emergency Committee

Arts, Charity and VCS support, Saving of lives

DEC brings together 15 of the UK's leading humanitarian agencies. At times of major humanitarian crisis, DEC works with its members, broadcast and other partners to launch a fundraising appeal to the UK public. The proceeds of each appeal are distributed to DEC's member agencies to enable them to deliver humanitarian programmes to help those most affected.

Latest Income: £50,801,000
Areas of Operation: Camden
Status: Registered
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Ahmadiyya Muslim Jamaat International

Education, Health, Religion, Research, Saving of lives

Our activities are as follows:- the propagation of Islam worldwide;- the building of mosques, hospitals and schools;- scientific research and development;- the award of scholarships for higher education;- the provision of emergency relief in cases of natural disasters; and- assistance to the deserving and needy.

Latest Income: £45,081,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Horder Healthcare

Health, Saving of lives

Horder Healthcare operates a hospital for patients requiring orthopaedic surgery and musculoskeletal services which is supported by a number of outreach centres in the South East. It owns and operates a second hospital, also in the South East, which delivers maxillofacial, plastic reconstruction surgery and ophthalmology.

Latest Income: £41,055,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Relief International UK

Saving of lives

Relief International-UK (RI-UK) is a non-profit making, non-religious emergency relief, rehabilitation, and development organisation that provides timely and efficient services and material resources to assist victims of natural and man-made disasters worldwide.

Latest Income: £40,801,284
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Air Ambulance Service

Beneficiary group, Health, Saving of lives

Operator of two Helicopter Emergency Services, and the Children's Air Ambulance transfer service.

Latest Income: £35,902,000
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity

Charitable activities, Charity and VCS support, Health, Professions, Saving of lives

The Charity's objects are to raise money solely to allow The Royal Marsden Foundation Trust to fund state-of-the-art equipment and groundbreaking research, create the best patient environments, and ensure its nurses, doctors and research teams can provide the very best care and develop life-saving treatments which are used here in the UK and around the world.

Latest Income: £34,043,000
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The London Orphan Asylum (reed's School)

Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Saving of lives

To provide education in Cobham for boys from the ages of 11 - 18, and girls in the Sixth Form. The objects of the Foundation, as set down in the Act and Constitution, are to advance the education of boys or girls who have lost one or both parents through death, divorce, or other family disaster, and whose home life, as a result, is unsatisfactory, unhappy or abnormal.

Latest Income: £29,598,000
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Community Security Trust

Religion, Saving of lives, Society

CST seeks to protect Britain's diverse and vibrant Jewish community from the external threats of bigotry, antisemitism and terrorism. CST provides physical security, training and advice for the protection of British Jews, assists victims of antisemitism, monitors antisemitic activities and incidents and represents British Jewry to Police, Government and media on antisemitism and security.

Latest Income: £28,207,171
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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One Nation

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Saving of lives

ONE NATION IS AN INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT HUMANITARIAN AID RELIEF ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN SERVICES IN CRISIS AND NON-CRISIS SITUATIONS TO MOST NEEDY ORPHANS, WIDOWS AND DESTITUTE, IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE, RELIGION, CULTURE, CREED AND GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARY.

Latest Income: £26,308,902
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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London's Air Ambulance Limited

Health, Research, Saving of lives

The relief of sickness and physical injury by the provision of emergency medical services and equipment and in particular by the provision of a helicopter ambulance service or other emergency transport.The provision of training, research and education in the field of pre-hospital medicine for the treatment and/or prevention of sickness and physical injury.

Latest Income: £25,991,000
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Air Ambulance Charity Kent Surrey Sussex

Health, Saving of lives

Air Ambulance service in South East England and surrounding areas. Our service provides specialised medicine and knowledge to improve the health and medical outcomes of the wider community.

Latest Income: £24,432,115
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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One Ummah

Saving of lives, Social welfare

One Ummah Charity works to relieve poverty both locally here in the UK and Internationally. Our main work involves providing emergency aid in disaster stricken areas around the world. We also provide long term sustainable projects which benefit on going benefits to those in need.

Latest Income: £24,408,631
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many saving of lives charities are there in the UK?

There are 2,191 registered saving of lives charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the saving of lives charities by income?

British Heart Foundation is the largest by latest reported annual income (£410.6m). 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 saving of lives charities?

Saving of lives charities reported a combined annual income of £4.2bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.

What is a typical program ratio for saving of lives charities?

Across all saving of lives charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 78.9%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.

What is the average annual income of saving of lives charities?

Saving of lives charities have an average annual income of £1.7m. 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.