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Saving of lives Charities

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454
Charities
£2,565,160,009
Total Income
£5,150,924
Avg Income
75.0%
Program Ratio

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

Village Hall

Arts, Facilities, Health, Leisure, Religion, Saving of lives

Fitness classes, jumble sales, Christmas bazaar, quiz evenings, birthday parties, funeral wakes, charity coffee mornings, polling station, parish council & parochial church council meetings, tabletop sales, drama group rehearsals, private tutoring, St John Ambulance training and meetings, committee meetings, kitchen hire for artisan bakers, NHS Cardiac Rehab Clinic

Latest Income: £23,952
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Dronfield Benevolent Fund

Associations, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Rotary Club service to local community and internationally:--Support of local organisations & services which provide local benefit.Support of very local organisations through a town-wide lottery.International support of pupils & students in Nepal through a separately donated fund, assisted by a Nepal Rotary Club. Support of Rotary International charity, and general disasters as they arise.

Latest Income: £23,883
Areas of Operation: Nepal
Status: Registered
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The Pointer Rescue Service

Animals, Housing, Saving of lives

To rescue unwanted or abandoned English Pointer dogs and to foster or re-home for adoption in a secure permenant home.

Latest Income: £23,719
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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North Laine Community Association

Associations, Heritage, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Promotes the interests of inhabitants of the North Laine Area of Brighton by working with the local authority, police & other voluntary groups. Residents with a concern can raise it at one of our monthly meetings or in our newsletter, the Runner. At meetings, in the Runner and on our web site, useful information such as local history or forthcoming social events of the association is given.

Latest Income: £23,565
Areas of Operation: Brighton And Hove
Status: Registered
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Hartlepool Sea Cadets

Associations, Leisure, Saving of lives

Cadets can gain skills that assist employers, for example self-confidence, leadership and good communication skills. Further skills learnt by the youngsters include life saving, Seamanship, Canoeing, Navigation, Communications, Sailing, Cookery, Rowing, Swimming, Wind Surfing. The unit also has a very successful band which performs at many local events throughout the year

Latest Income: £23,558
Areas of Operation: Hartlepool
Status: Registered
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The Management Committee Of The Raven Meols Community Centre

Facilities, Health, Leisure, Saving of lives

The Charity manages the Community Centre on behalf of its member organizations such as the Bridge Club, the Self Help group, the St John ambulance etc., leasing it from the Sefton leisure department and managing the programme of activities.

Latest Income: £23,359
Areas of Operation: Sefton
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Shepperton And Sunbury Benevolent Fund

Associations, Charity and VCS support, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Our aims centre around service before self, both globally and in local community. We provide practical response to world disasters, floods, earthquakes. Sending shelterboxes, aquaboxes and relief supplies. The End Polio now campaigns worlds largest public health project costing $1bn fund, fundraising at Christmas collections from public & race nights to support local charities & good causes.

Latest Income: £23,245
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Oak Tree Trust

Health, Religion, Saving of lives

support for Northern Pakistan earthquake area in partnership with Midlands International Muslim Relief with special camps doing cataract operations for free ( did 197 this year(. Also supporting trelawny area of Jamaica in partnership with the charity TORA. Provided medical relief to Gaza hospital. Supplied tents direct to Haiti. Provided water wells and seed growing project in Niger with ADRA

Latest Income: £23,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Exmouth Beach Rescue Club

Leisure, Saving of lives

Exmouth Beach Rescue provides voluntary lifeguard cover to Exmouth beach at weekends and bank holidays throughout the summer season (May bank holiday to end of September). Members are provided with training in rescue & first aid techniques as well as use & maintanence of rescue equipment (including IRB rescue craft). Safety cover also provided for water events (i.e. swimming events & triathlon).

Latest Income: £22,511
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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Margate Ambulance Corps

Charity and VCS support, Health, Saving of lives

Provision of First Aid Services by volunteer members in the Margate, Ramsgate and Broadstairs areas

Latest Income: £22,468
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Anglo-Hellenic League

Arts, Charitable activities, Heritage, Research, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Advancement of the education of the public in the science, art, literature, music, history, economics, philosophy, culture, way of life and other recognised subjects of the academic study of Greece.The relief of poverty and sickness with particular regard to persons who have suffered as a result of disasters whether in the United Kingdom or in Greece or elsewhere.

Latest Income: £22,409
Areas of Operation: Greece
Status: Registered
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Union Of Catholic Mothers Wales

Charitable activities, Saving of lives

GENERAL CHARITABLE PURPOSESRELIEF OF POVERTYOVERSEAS AID/FAMINE RELIEFRELIGIOUS ACTIVITIESCHILDREN/YOUNG PEOPLEELDERLY/OLD PEOPLEMAKES GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS

Latest Income: £22,406
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Aldingbourne Gospel Trust

Saving of lives, Social welfare

As funds are available we respond to appeals to support individuals & organisations working both in the UK and overseas for the relief of poverty and famine, for medical research and to support the disabled and for the promotion of the Christian faith through translation and distribution of Bibles and outreach activities. We make donations to benefit people of all ages.

Latest Income: £21,927
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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City Of London Police - Charity For Children

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives, Social welfare

This charity is run for the benefit of young people & children in need by reason of ill health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage. It provides funds for individuals & groups. The maximum age limit for beneficiaries is 18 and the charity is principally for those with a link to the City but any appropriate request which falls within the charity guidelines will be considered.

Latest Income: £21,877
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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South And Mid Wales Cave Rescue Team/tim Achub Ogofau De A Chanolbarth Cymru

Saving of lives

The object of the Team shall be to relieve suffering and distress amongst persons or animals endangered by accident or natural hazards underground by the provision, at the request of the police, of search and rescue for any persons or animals endangered.

Latest Income: £21,852
Areas of Operation: Wales
Status: Registered
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Lofthouse Colliery Disaster Trust Number 2

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Relieving or preventing financial hardship or suffering to any widow, widower or dependent of a deceased person occasioned by the death as the direct result of an accident to any person at any time employed at Lofthouse Colliery or at any other colliery employed in the area of the Yorkshire Coalfield.

Latest Income: £21,824
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Stafford Trust Fund

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Social welfare

The charity responds to world disasters making immediate donations to appeals. It supports educational and leadership courses for young people. It makes donations to Rotary Foundation for world wide relief of poverty and disease. It makes donations to good causes local to Stafford, good causes working within the British Isles, and good causes internationally.

Latest Income: £21,556
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Willingdon Memorial Hall

Associations, Beneficiary group, Facilities, Health, Religion, Saving of lives

PROVIDING A WARM AND FRIENDLY ENVIRONMENT FOR LOCAL GROUPS AND CHARITIES I.E. WOMENS INSTITUTES, SCOUTS, BEAVERS, GUIDES. BROWNIES, RAINBOWS, ST JOHN AMBULANCE AND THE PARISH CHURCH OF ST MARY THE VIRGIN

Latest Income: £21,103
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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The Thames Charitable Trust

Saving of lives, Social welfare

The charity supports a wide range of projects and good causes including education, relief for natural disasters, social welfare and poverty throughout the world.

Latest Income: £21,041
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Adventist Development And Relief Agency - Trans European Division

Economic and community development, Saving of lives

ADRA is an international humanitarian aid agency. ADRA Trans-Europe is a regional office, supporting 19 country offices with: Resources, strategic planning, disaster response assistance, electronically accessible tools, training and education, assistance in obtaining government funds, staffing support and new personnel placement, general support as needed.

Latest Income: £21,033
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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United Charities

Beneficiary group, Facilities, Religion, Saving of lives, Social welfare

The charity provides financial assistance to the poor and needy residents of the parish of Gnosall, particularly the elderly but also children and young people. This assistance has included donations to nominated families and local charitable organisations including: Community Centre, Over 60's Club, First Responders, Voluntary Car Scheme, and Gnosall Parish Church.

Latest Income: £20,931
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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The Lyras Family Charitable Trust

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives, Social welfare

The Trustees have discretion to pay or apply the Trust Fund or the income thereof to benefit worldwide disaster funds, the relief of poverty, the advancement of religion in particular in the country of Greece.

Latest Income: £20,755
Areas of Operation: Greece
Status: Registered
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The Aberfan Memorial Charity

Facilities, Heritage, Saving of lives

Maintenance and repair of cemetery memorials and memorial garden for victims of the Aberfan Disaster 1966

Latest Income: £20,749
Areas of Operation: Merthyr Tydfil
Status: Registered
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Metropolitan Police Commissioner's Fund

Leisure, Saving of lives

To promote the efficiency and well being of the Metropolitan Police by affording facilities to its members to enjoy recreational or educational pursuits; increasing comforts and amenities; assisting or subscribing to any scheme, to make donations or subscriptions, which may be to the benefit of members past and present or their dependants.

Latest Income: £20,662
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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Humberside Police Welfare And Benevolent Fund

Saving of lives, Social welfare

To help serving and retired members of Humberside Police who are in financial difficulty by providing a loan/grant. Grants can also be provied on an altruistic basis is it would help the aforementioned to deal with a particularly difficult time in their lives. The Fund is largely made up of subscriptions from members. Donations by private and public bodies are also very welcome.

Latest Income: £20,180
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 454 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 £2.6bn 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 75.0%. 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 £5.2m. 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.