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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.

Chance For Childhood

Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfare

Chance for Childhood is an award-winning charity working in Africa to support the most vulnerable children, often invisible from society, such as street children, disabled children, children affected by conflict and children in conflict with the law. These children are often hidden members of their communities, unable to go to school, excluded from society and living in abject poverty.

Latest Income: £1,804,371
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Royal Medical Benevolent Fund

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

2.1 The objects of the Charity are to prevent or relieve poverty and to relieve need arising from youth, age, ill health, disability and bereavement among people who are doctors or who have worked as doctors, and medical students and the dependants of such individuals

Latest Income: £1,803,719
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Hobson Charity Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

The aim of the charity is to offer grants to registered charities seeking to raise the quality of life, particularly for those who are young, disadvantaged, deprived, disabled or elderly. Grants are usually confined to specific items or projects in England and Wales and settled after the purchase has been confirmed. See website for further details on how to apply www.hobsoncharity.org.uk

Latest Income: £1,796,906
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Fellowship Of St Nicholas

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The principal business of the Fellowship of St Nicholas (FSN) is to support children and families, particulary those suffering the effects of poverty, disadvantage, neglect and abuse.

Latest Income: £1,792,751
Areas of Operation: East Sussex
Status: Registered
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Unison Welfare

Social welfare

UNISON Welfare is the registered charity serving members of UNISON. We provide support to members and their dependants at times of financial hardship or personal difficulty such as redundancy, bereavement, illness or relationship breakdown. We also help members caring for a relative or those with special needs.

Latest Income: £1,779,278
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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Manchester Settlement

Social welfare

To develop projects that promote health and education reducing poverty and deprivation

Latest Income: £1,755,420
Areas of Operation: Manchester City
Status: Registered
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Plymouth Highbury Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

Relieveing poverty, the education and religion of people with Learning Disabilities in the City of Plymouth

Latest Income: £1,727,939
Areas of Operation: Plymouth City
Status: Registered
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Coventry Panahghar Project

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

Panahghar exists to provide a range of direct and indirect services and activities to primarily but not solely to BAMER (Black Asian Minority Ethnic and Refugee) communities and primarily to Asian women and their children and families to alleviate domestic violence, abuse and poverty on a local national and international level.

Latest Income: £1,725,907
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Rural Media Charity

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Social welfare

RURAL MEDIA CHARITY COMBINES COMMUNITY AND INFORMAL EDUCATION WITH ARTS AND MEDIA PRODUCTION EXPERTISE TO EMPOWER RURAL COMMUNITIES,PARTICULARLY THOSE MOST DISADVANTAGED. THE RESULTS ARE HIGH-QUALITY PROJECTS AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES THAT GIVE RURAL COMMUNITIES A 'VOICE' AND INFORM POLICY DEVELOPMENT.

Latest Income: £1,686,440
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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North East Housing Association Limited

Associations, Housing, Social welfare

The relief of need, hardship and distress by the provision of good, clean, safe and affordable accommodation and other facilities for anyone in need.The advancement of the Christian religion.

Latest Income: £1,677,644
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Z V M Rangoonwala Foundation

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

ZVM Rangoonwala Foundation's objective is to provide financial support for exclusively charitable purposes including the relief of hardship, the relief of the elderly, advancement of education and the arts, and other charitable purposes for the benefit of the community. The Foundation provides support to projects and programmes both in the UK and internationally.

Latest Income: £1,666,169
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Alan Sugar Foundation

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

As identified by the Trustees primarily in favour of children, the elderley and the disadvantaged in society.

Latest Income: £1,666,095
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Raw Workshop

Social welfare

Employ, pay and give whole life training to disadvantaged people.

Latest Income: £1,640,627
Areas of Operation: Buckinghamshire
Status: Registered
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The Bell Educational Trust Limited

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Creating opportunity, changing lives and overcoming disadvantage through language education.We work with partners on innovation, research, training and practical interventions. By generating and applying evidence, we aim to change practice, policy and systems for children, adults and communities in the UK disadvantaged through language.

Latest Income: £1,607,786
Areas of Operation: Scotland
Status: Registered
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Imdadul Muslimeen

Beneficiary group, Saving of lives, Social care, Social welfare

We donate to charitable organisations with similar charitable objectives as our charity. We support poor children and orphans, widows, victims of natural disasters like earth quakes, floods, etc. through relief organisations carrying out relief work in affected areas. We donate to orphanages & educational institutions for girls & boys in poor countries. We provide clean water by digging wells etc.

Latest Income: £1,604,162
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation

Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Social welfare

The Foundation makes grants to charitable bodies in accordance with the objects set out in the trust deed. In addition to supporting local and national charities,mainly on a regular basis,the Foundation has made overseas grants to advance education,relieve poverty,sickness,and suffering some of which have been caused by conflict and disasters.

Latest Income: £1,600,539
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Drapers' Almshouse Charity

Associations, Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Social welfare

To give assistance to elderly poor people through the provision of sheltered almshouse accommodation, the upkeep of almshouse properties and estate, and the provision of social activities and other communal facilities and services for the benefit of the almshouse community.

Latest Income: £1,577,732
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Friends Of The Bobover Yeshivah

Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

The charity runs a school for children over the age of 5 and also gives aid to needy Talmudical students and makes grants to the poor and needy.

Latest Income: £1,574,098
Areas of Operation: Hackney
Status: Registered
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Sailors' Society

Housing, Religion, Social welfare

We provide international welfare support for seafarers. Our charitable objectives are:Advancement of the Christian religion (through chaplaincy)EducationRelief of poverty and distress

Latest Income: £1,557,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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British Friends Of The Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (kollel Shomrei Hachomos)

Associations, Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Religion, Social welfare

the relief of poverty and the advancement of jewish education and the jewish religion, in particular by assisting poor persons with all necessary relief and medical assistance, housing, old age care facilities and providing financial help for schools and colleges, run by Kollel Shomrei Hachomos in Israel

Latest Income: £1,556,857
Areas of Operation: Israel
Status: Registered
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The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust

Social welfare

The charity donates funds to organisations, primarily in Nottinghamshire, which help the socially or medically disadvantaged.

Latest Income: £1,553,389
Areas of Operation: Nottinghamshire
Status: Registered
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The I T F Seafarers Trust

Social welfare

Provide or assist in providing for the welfare of maritime workers of all nations, and assisting them and their dependents in conditions of sickness, hardship and distress

Latest Income: £1,546,824
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Charity Of Richard Cloudesley

Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfare

The Charity's area of benefit is the London Borough of Islington where, through programmes of pro-active grant-making, the Charity's aim is to help those who are sick and poor and to support twenty seven Church of England churches.

Latest Income: £1,517,000
Areas of Operation: Islington
Status: Registered
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Walsall Community Transport Limited

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

Our objectives are for the advancement of education and relief of poverty, sickness, old age and distress through the provision of transport, advice and assistance. Our main purpose is social care through transport to benefit the local community of Walsall. Most of the activities we provide whilst transport led are delivered to support those individuals who are unable to access regular services.

Latest Income: £1,502,912
Areas of Operation: Walsall
Status: Registered
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The Liverpool Merchants' Guild

Social welfare

To relieve individuals who have been a professional or self employed person, a person who worked in a supervisory capacity, or a clerical or non manual worker and their dependents who are residing in Merseyside or who have so resided for a continuous period of not less than 15 years who are not less than 50 years of age and who are in conditions of need, hardship or distress

Latest Income: £1,491,304
Areas of Operation: Various
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.