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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.

S And R Charitable Trust

Social welfare

General charitable purposes including education, relief of poverty & religious activities.

Latest Income: £39,484
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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The Rifles Officers' Fund

Armed forces, Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The principle activity is the provision of grant support for the relief of need, hardship and distress among Officers and former Officers of the Regiment and the Regiments or the Territorial Army units who are in need of assistance, and their families and dependents. To the extent that income is not required for the principle activity, the Trustees may apply it for the benefit of serving officers.

Latest Income: £39,474
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Medicines For Muheza

Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

Supports hospitals and medical education in African countriesMakes grants to individuals in African countries for the relief of poverty

Latest Income: £39,466
Areas of Operation: Lesotho
Status: Registered
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The Sway Welfare Aid Group

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Provides Grants to individuals and organizations for the relief of financial hardship or to assist the sick, disabled or aged.Provides services to assist with medical transport and a lunch club for elderly people living alone.The area of operation is restricted to the civil parish of Sway, Hampshire.

Latest Income: £39,446
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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British Charity Fund - Berne

Social welfare

The fund is used to relieve poverty, sickness, suffering and distress for British & Commonwealth citizens living in Switzerland and also for any needy person recommended by one of the British churches in Switzerland.

Latest Income: £39,346
Areas of Operation: France
Status: Registered
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Freeman Evans St David's Day Denbigh Charity

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

For the relief of the poor, elderly, disabled and chronically sick residents of the former Borough of Denbigh ( i.e the town of Denbigh and the Village of Henllan)

Latest Income: £39,314
Areas of Operation: Denbighshire
Status: Registered
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Roaluf Limited

Social welfare

The Charity's object and its principal activity continues to be that providing grants for the enhancement of education and religion and for the relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £39,282
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Great Witchingham Fuel Allotment Charity

Social welfare

Provision of benefit and winter fuel for the poor of the parish of Great Witchingham and the provision of financial aid to groups working for the benefit of the Parishioners of Great Witchingham

Latest Income: £39,257
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Real Time Video Limited

Arts, Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The principle activity for year under review was that of providing and promoting the development of social and creative skills through the use of video and other media. Real Time targeted its work at socially excluded groups, economically deprived areas and at-risk groups. Real Time supported young people and people with disabilities in producing films .

Latest Income: £39,236
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Grace Christian Centre

Religion, Social welfare

We provide education and training to our members and assist in the relief of poverty by assisting those in need and carry out religious activities.

Latest Income: £39,236
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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Wells Next The Sea United Charities(charity No 236897)incorporating Former Charity No (259709)(wells And District League Of Friends)

Associations, Health, Social welfare

Education/TrainingRelief of poverty

Latest Income: £39,192
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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The Oppenheim-John Downes Memorial Trust

Arts, Social welfare

The maintenance of a scheme of awards to deserving artists, writers, craftsmen and musicians of anykind who by reason of their poverty are unable to pursue effectively their vocation as such. Beneficiaries must be over 30 years of age and be born within Great Britain, Northern Ireland, The Channel Islands or the Isle of Man and must be British Citizens.

Latest Income: £39,135
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Mothers' Union (diocese Of Exeter Branch)

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Crime and Justice, Saving of lives, Social welfare

Overseas: raising funds for development projects and emergency aid.In Devon, arranging holidays for disadvantaged families; providing toys for prisoner's children visiting prisons; knitting goods for the elderly and for still-born babies; providing goods for womens' refuges and prisoners, supporting rufugees. Supporting actions against gender based violence and modern day slavery.

Latest Income: £39,123
Areas of Operation: Devon
Status: Registered
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Charities Of Edward Sedgwick And Sara Godfrey

Facilities, Housing, Social welfare

The Trust continues to operate locally. Fields and allotments are in use. The Trust Cottages are fully occupied. Routine maintenance continues with local tradesmen employed. Improvements to the general standard of housing quality have been carried out on a planned schedule to conform to current standards. The Trust continuesto support disadvantaged residents and students within the Parish.

Latest Income: £39,098
Areas of Operation: Kent
Status: Registered
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The Robert And Margaret Moss Charitable Trust

Research, Social welfare

The Trust's objects are: (a) to foster and promote medical and scientific research into the vast problems of human nutrition, (b) to foster and promote medical research generally, (c) the relief of poverty and (d) the advancement of education.

Latest Income: £39,015
Areas of Operation: Oxfordshire
Status: Registered
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Susila Dharma Britain

Charity and VCS support, Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

Fundraising and publicity for projects of members of the World Subud Association, which relieve poverty and sickness, advance education and promote environmental sustainability or any other social and humanitarian development anywhere in the world.

Latest Income: £38,952
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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William Mothe

Housing, Social welfare

PROVISION OF ALMSHOUSES FOR POOR PERSONS OF GOOD CHARACTER WHO HAVE RESIDED IN THE ANCIENT PARISH OF TADLEY FOR NOT LESS THAN 2 YEARS NEXT PRECEDING THE TIME OF APPOINTMENT.

Latest Income: £38,906
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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William Davis's Educational Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charity and VCS support, Education, Social welfare

Support for extra-curricular activities that benefit poor children at schools in the area of the Diocese of London. Support takes the form of both grant-giving and fund-raising for projects.

Latest Income: £38,878
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Overseas Service Pensioners Benevolent Society

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

To relieve poverty by giving grants to members of the Overseas Service Pensioners' Association who are in need. Other pensioners may be eligible for a grant, at the Committee's discretion, if they are eligible for membership of the Association (see OSPA website).

Latest Income: £38,657
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Save A Child

Beneficiary group, Economic and community development, Education, Housing, Social welfare

Save a Child contributes to the maintenance and education of deprived children in India through one-to-one sponsorship at several well established homes in Delhi, Kolkata and rural West Bengal. SaC also sponsors students who have left the home and are pursuing further education. SaC's children come from a variety of backgrounds-all need a second, better chance in life.

Latest Income: £38,619
Areas of Operation: India
Status: Registered
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The Kitty And Daniel Nabarro Charitable Trust

Social welfare

THE RELIEF OF POVERTY, THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, THE ADVANCEMENT OF MEDICINE AND ANY OTHER PURPOSES WHICH ARE EXCLUSIVELY CHARITABLE ACCORDING TO THE LAWS OF ENGLAND AND WALES. THE EMPHASIS IS ON NATIONAL CHARITIES.THE CHARITY DOES NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED APPLICATIONS FOR SUPPORT.

Latest Income: £38,549
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Henry Blank Charitable Trust

Charitable activities, Social welfare

The charity makes grants to other charitable institutions and to individuals for the prevention or relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £38,450
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Langton Trust

Social welfare

The trust's objectives are the relief of poverty, the provision of education, and assistance to religious, medical and other charitable organisations. Grants are only made to registered charities.

Latest Income: £38,265
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Michael Dewhirst Charitable Trust

Social welfare

1. To relieve poor persons and 2. for other charitable purposes as the trustees shall think fit

Latest Income: £38,255
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Rotary Club Of Verwood Trust Fund

Associations, Social welfare

Rotary Club of Verwood Trust fund operates for the relief of the poor and needy or to or for such other charitable purpose, institution, society or object as the club shall in duly constituted meeting from time to time direct

Latest Income: £38,130
Areas of Operation: Dorset
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.