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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.

4,579
Charities
£5,280,882,026
Total Income
£632,517
Avg Income
85.6%
Program Ratio

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

John Bradburne Memorial Society

Social welfare

The objects of charity are to relieve people in the area of Mutemwa, Zimbabwe who are suffering sickness, hardship and distress from leprosy or other causes through the provision of supplementary food, medicines, medical care, clothing and shelter with the object of improving their conditions of life

Latest Income: £71,608
Areas of Operation: Herefordshire
Status: Registered
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The Margaret Hart Charitable Trust

Social welfare

To provide relief of need, hardship or distress amongst the employees and former employees and their dependants of Cleansing Service Group Ltd and its subsidiaries

Latest Income: £71,524
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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Wensleydale And Swaledale Quaker Trust

Heritage, Housing, Religion, Social welfare

1) the relief of Quakers, Attenders and other people who are in need, hardship or distress and are resident in the area of benefit; (2) the maintenance and upkeep of the Quaker meeting houses and burial grounds within the area of benefit;(3) to further the religious and other charitable deeds and works of the Area Meeting, in Britain and overseas, as the trustees shall see meet.

Latest Income: £71,000
Areas of Operation: North Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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Ashfield Play Care Scheme

Beneficiary group, Childcare, Education, Social welfare

Ofsted registered for 52 children aged 4-11 years this voluntarily administered non-profit making scheme employs well qualified staff and provides flexible session times and reasonable contributions to assist low paid parents in what are described as deprived areas of Nottinghamshire. Children are collected after school and cared for during holidays in a warm safe environment.

Latest Income: £70,758
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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St George The Martyr Charity

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

The Charity provides the following within the area of benefit: pastoral care, social opportunities, personal care services, and small 'pensions' for older people; grants to persons who are in hardship, need (including medical need) or distress where assistance is not available from other sources.

Latest Income: £70,720
Areas of Operation: Southwark
Status: Registered
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Eurasia Education Foundation

Religion, Social welfare

The advancement of the Christian Faith and the relief of poverty in Romania, Moldova, Central Asia other former Communist countries and peoples in Muslim lands.

Latest Income: £70,592
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Good Deed Foundation

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The charity is a grant making organisiation operating at the discretion of the Trustees. In the past grants have been made to charitable organisations in the fields of religious advancement, education, poverty relief and health.

Latest Income: £70,481
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Ashford Almshouse Charity

Housing, Social welfare

The object of the charity is to provide housing accommodation for poor persons of good character who are inhabitants of Ashford, Kent.

Latest Income: £70,461
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Fuel Or Poor's Allotment, Burgh St. Margaret

Social welfare

Service of the Poor and needy of Fleggburgh and Billockby

Latest Income: £70,296
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Monastery Of Christ Our Saviour

Education, Religion, Social welfare, Society

The Charity supports the monastic life and public prayer of the community of monks. The community promotes ecumenical and inter-faith relations and hosts courses in psychotherapy and the relationship between psychotherapy and spirituality. It also receives individuals and groups for religious and educational and cultural reasons and makes some grants for reasons of religion, education and hardship

Latest Income: £70,192
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Cleaves Charity And Others

Housing, Social welfare

Maintaining housing for poor and needy

Latest Income: £70,109
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Chertsey Combined Charity

Economic and community development, Social welfare

The general relief of distress, hardship and/or need to beneficiaries resident within the boundary of the former Urban District of Chertsey.

Latest Income: £69,949
Areas of Operation: Surrey
Status: Registered
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Independent Christian Workers Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

We give grants to individuals carrying out Christian work to poor & needy worldwide. These individuals should meet with the approval of our trustees and provide their own sponsorship.

Latest Income: £69,908
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Cystic Fibrosis Comfort Fund

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

Provide relief to those persons suffering from Cystic Fibrosis and to assist the families of those persons who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress.

Latest Income: £69,752
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Ruth And Lionel Jacobson Charitable Trust (second Fund) No 2

Charitable activities, Social welfare

To assist in the relief of poverty and sickness, provide for education and advancement of knowledge for all ages together with the provision of monies for the advancement of medical research making grants to appropriate institutions.

Latest Income: £69,733
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Grantham Trust Fund

Associations, Charity and VCS support, Social welfare

Raising funds by sponsorship donation or activities for the relief of the poor and needy or such other charitable purposes as members of the The Rotary Club of Grantham may in duly constituted meeting may from time to time direct.

Latest Income: £69,648
Areas of Operation: Lincolnshire
Status: Registered
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The Estate Charity Of Elizabeth Grasvenor And Robert Rogers

Social welfare

The object of the charity is to provide benefactions to registered Charities for the relief of the poor and The Robert Rogers Educational Foundation in equal parts.

Latest Income: £69,421
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Order Of The Secret Monitor Fund Of Benevolence

Social welfare

GENERAL CHARITABLE ACTIVITIES FOR THE RELIEF OF POVERTY

Latest Income: £69,131
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Safe Start Foundation

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The Charity exists to relieve poverty, sickness, hardship and distress amongst young people living in London. To achieve this object, the charity operates a number of projects.

Latest Income: £68,957
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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India Development Group (uk) Limited

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Social welfare

Working with people on the margins of rural society in India- low caste and tribal people, especially disadvantaged women- to help them build and sustain their individual, family and community livelihoods.

Latest Income: £68,566
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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United Charities

Social welfare

General Charitable PurposesRelief of Poverty

Latest Income: £68,314
Areas of Operation: Worcestershire
Status: Registered
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Dickinson Massey Underwood Gill Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

To provide financial support to authorised persons by way of annual pensions or grants for specific cases of hardship.

Latest Income: £68,251
Areas of Operation: Nottingham City
Status: Registered
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The Church Tenements Charities: Educational And Church Branches

Arts, Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

The charity provides one-off, small, grants for educational purposes to young people under the age of 25 years either resident within, or studying at an establishment within, the London Borough of Croydon. Grants are awarded to those demonstrating financial hardship, for items such as books, stationery, uniforms, travel to and from school/college, school trips and music tuition and instruments.

Latest Income: £68,218
Areas of Operation: Croydon
Status: Registered
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Eritrean Community In UK

Economic and community development, Education, Social welfare

General charitable purposes including education/training accommodation, employment, health, community development, tackle poverty and similar services to all ages and gender.

Latest Income: £68,160
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Ex-Boarders Charitable Trust

Social welfare

Eye-care operations; care for mentally retarded persons;religious activities and provision of food/water for the poor(regular meals).

Latest Income: £68,046
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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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.