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.
Notable charities in this sector
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 welfareChance 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.
Royal Medical Benevolent Fund
Beneficiary group, Social welfare2.1 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
The Hobson Charity Limited
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfareThe 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
The Fellowship Of St Nicholas
Beneficiary group, Social welfareThe 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.
Unison Welfare
Social welfareUNISON 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.
Manchester Settlement
Social welfareTo develop projects that promote health and education reducing poverty and deprivation
Plymouth Highbury Trust
Beneficiary group, Social welfareRelieveing poverty, the education and religion of people with Learning Disabilities in the City of Plymouth
Coventry Panahghar Project
Beneficiary group, Social welfarePanahghar 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.
Rural Media Charity
Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Social welfareRURAL 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.
North East Housing Association Limited
Associations, Housing, Social welfareThe 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.
Z V M Rangoonwala Foundation
Beneficiary group, Social welfareZVM 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.
The Alan Sugar Foundation
Beneficiary group, Social welfareAs identified by the Trustees primarily in favour of children, the elderley and the disadvantaged in society.
Raw Workshop
Social welfareEmploy, pay and give whole life training to disadvantaged people.
The Bell Educational Trust Limited
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfareCreating 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.
Imdadul Muslimeen
Beneficiary group, Saving of lives, Social care, Social welfareWe 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.
The Alice Ellen Cooper-Dean Charitable Foundation
Charitable activities, Saving of lives, Social welfareThe 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.
The Drapers' Almshouse Charity
Associations, Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Social welfareTo 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.
The Friends Of The Bobover Yeshivah
Associations, Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfareThe 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.
Sailors' Society
Housing, Religion, Social welfareWe provide international welfare support for seafarers. Our charitable objectives are:Advancement of the Christian religion (through chaplaincy)EducationRelief of poverty and distress
British Friends Of The Rabbi Meir Baal Haness Charity (kollel Shomrei Hachomos)
Associations, Beneficiary group, Education, Housing, Religion, Social welfarethe 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
The Jones 1986 Charitable Trust
Social welfareThe charity donates funds to organisations, primarily in Nottinghamshire, which help the socially or medically disadvantaged.
The I T F Seafarers Trust
Social welfareProvide 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
Charity Of Richard Cloudesley
Charitable activities, Religion, Social welfareThe 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.
Walsall Community Transport Limited
Beneficiary group, Social welfareOur 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.
The Liverpool Merchants' Guild
Social welfareTo 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
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.