Social welfare Charities That specialise in Individual poverty
Discover 4,579 Social welfare charities that specialise in individual poverty. Use the search below to filter within these results.
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Foundation Christian Fellowship Warminster
Religion, Social welfareHolding Church services and educating people in the Christian Faith.Ministering to the needs of the people and relieving poverty.Proclaiming a Christian witness to the town of Warminster and elsewhere.Assisting other missions and ministries to carry out their work by supplying financial benefit.Establishing and running a prayer centre in the town for the benefit of all people.
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 Double 'o' Charity Limited
Social welfareThe primary objective of the charity is to engage in charitable activities such as the relief of poverty, preservation of health and the advancement of education.
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.
North Kasai Mission
Beneficiary group, Education, Religion, Social welfareWe aim to advance the Christian religion by supporting missionary work carried out in the North Kasai area of The Democratic Republic of the Congo. This is done by holding meetings to consider the needs of the schools, health centres, poor, elderly, handicapped etc. and allocate funds, which are received by way of gifts.
Robert Lucas For The Poor And For Public Purposes
Education, Social welfareTo assist the needy and organisations benefiting the public in the parish of Shefford, also includes educational grants for university students.
Michael Crawford Childrens Charity
Social welfareRelief of sickness and poverty
Living Springs International Church
Religion, Social welfareThe objects of Living Springs International Church are:ÔÇó Promoting the advancement of Christian faith throughout the world.ÔÇó Providing and maintaining a place of worship.ÔÇó Providing services to relief suffering, sickness, and poverty.ÔÇó Helping to improve living, mental, and moral standard of people.ÔÇó Carrying out religious services.ÔÇó Assisting Christian training and education.
Bhagwan Valmik Sabha Bedford
Economic and community development, Research, Social welfareThe Charity has acted to advance the philosophy of Bhagwan Valmiki Ji in Bedfordshire and its environs and where appropriate internationally through religious ceremony and academic study and presentation. The Charity has also acted with efforts to relieve sickness and poverty where considered appropriate by the donation of funds to charitable organisations and to the Government of the UK.
The Goldschmied Charitable Settlement
Charitable activities, Social welfareTHE SUPPORT OF GENERAL CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES BY THE PROVISION OF GRANTS TO ORGANISATIONS CONCERNED WITH EDUCATION AND TRAINING, RELIGION, MEDICAL AND HEALTH, POVERTY, THE ARTS AND THE ENVIRONMENT, CONSERVATION AND HERITAGE.
The Community Of St John The Divine
Beneficiary group, Health, Religion, Social welfareThe community seeks to establish a centre of worship and prayer within the ethos of healing, wholeness and reconciliation, we exercise a ministry of hospitality for people to come for times of rest, retreat and renewal and to share in our life and worship. We offer a ministry of spiritual accompanyment and pastoral care, and seek to respond to the needs of the poor and marginalized.
The Manava Trust
Education, Social welfareThe Manava Trust is a Charity whose object is relief of poverty and religious activities. It also grants educational scholarships.
Apna Ghar
Beneficiary group, Social welfareApna Ghar is a centre run by and for minority ethnic women residing in a deprived area of South Tyneside. The centre provides vocational and non-vocational classes i.e. IT, English for beginners. Make services more accessible to the senior citizen members of the community with luncheon clubs, health awareness sessions. It also provides activities for the youth community.
Pencare
Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Religion, Social care, Social welfareThe charity provides for those in need, by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability or financial hardship, such beneficiaries being of the Jewish faith and living in the local Jewish community or with a significant connection to the local Jewish community. For the advancement of the Jewish faith the charity also makes grant to synagogues in the local Jewish community.
The Living Waters Trust
Education, Saving of lives, Social welfareThe objectives of the trust are (1) To advance the Christian faith. (2) To give help to those who suffer as a result of their faith. (3) To bring help to the disadvantaged, particularly overseas, by supporting schools and community projects and by helping with disaster relief.
The Ruby And Will George Trust
Beneficiary group, Social welfareTo provide for the advancement of education or the relief of poverty among persons employed or formerly employed in commerce or husbands, wives, widows, widowers or issue of such persons.
Vauxhall Gardens Community Centre
Associations, Facilities, Leisure, Social welfareto promote for the benefit of the inhabitants of the triangle in a common effort to advance education, relieve poverty, sickness and distress, further health and to provide facilities in the interests of social welfare for recreation and leisure time occupation with the object of improving the conditions of life of for the said inhabitants and work with other charities.
Bedale Welfare Charity
Social welfareTo relieve conditions of need, hardship or distress for individuals or groups within the precribed geographic area.
Spears-Stutz Charitable Trust
Social welfareRelief of poverty and other charitable purposes as selected by the Trustees
The Michael Marsh Charitable Trust
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfareGrants are broadly divided between charities helping old people children disabled the poor and educationally needy.Trustees favour grants to specific projects for locally based smaller charities but will also consider larger projects.Trustees will consider pledging a grant, subject to remaining project funding found by the charity.Generally applications for running costs will not be considered.
The Molyneux Almshouses
Housing, Social welfareto provide social housing for the poor and those in need who were either born or are long term residents of Tunbridge Wells (now or in the past)
Plumstead Almshouses
Housing, Social welfareProvide Accommodation/Housing to persons over the age of 55 years who are in need, hardship or distess in the following oreder of priority.(i) persons resident in area of benefit (Plumstead)(ii) persons resident in the London Borough of GreenwichSuch charitable purposes for the benefit of the residents as the trusteed decide
Kirkley Poor's Lands
Charitable activities, Social welfareAwards grants to people resident in the Ancient Parish of Kirkley who are in need, hardship or distress.Awards grants to organisations helping people resident in the Ancient Parish of Kirkley who are in need, hardship or distress.Awards grants to students resident in the Ancient Parish of Kirkley.
Selby Almshouses And Poor's Charity
Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfareFrom net income, relief generally or individually to persons resident in Selby District in conditions of need, hardship or distress by making grants or by otherwise paying for items, services or facilities to reduce the need hardship or distress subject to conditions contained in the Charity Commission Scheme.
Exousia Trust
Economic and community development, Housing, Religion, Social welfareSupporting the Christian Ministry of Sean Stillman and Associated initiatives.These initiatives include: - Zac's Place which is both a facility supporting homeless and other disadvantaged individuals in the Swansea area and also a mission church community.- Rough Edges which is a social enterprise in Swansea www.Rough-Edges.org.uk
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many individual-poverty social welfare charities are there in the UK?
There are 4,579 registered individual-poverty social welfare charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.
Which is the largest of the individual-poverty social welfare charities by income?
Oxfam is the largest by latest reported annual income (£339.4m). 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 individual-poverty social welfare charities?
Individual-poverty social welfare charities reported a combined annual income of £5.3bn across their most recent filings with the Charity Commission.
What is a typical program ratio for individual-poverty social welfare charities?
Across all individual-poverty social welfare charities, the aggregate program ratio (charitable expenditure as a share of income) is 85.6%. Individual charity ratios vary widely — see each profile for a sector-band benchmark.
What is the average annual income of individual-poverty social welfare charities?
Individual-poverty social welfare charities have an average annual income of £633k. 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.