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Discover 7,374 Social welfare charities. Use the search below to filter within these results.

7,374
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.

Claire House

Beneficiary group, Health, Social care, Social welfare

Claire House helps seriously and terminally ill babies, children and young adults in Merseyside, Cheshire and North Wales. It provides end of life care, emergency respite, hospital support and day care, in addition to short breaks for children with complex needs. It also provides counselling, therapy and bereavement support for the whole family, while a child is living and after they die.

Latest Income: £10,929,035
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Lancaster Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust

Professions, Religion, Social welfare

The principal aim of the charity is the furtherance of the Roman Catholic religion within the geographical boundaries of the Diocese of Lancaster. This includes but not limited to pastoral support for clergy and parishioners, educational support, relief of poverty and maintenance of the property of the charity.

Latest Income: £10,707,202
Areas of Operation: Cumbria
Status: Registered
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Honeycomb Charitable Services Limited

Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfare

We support disadvantaged children, young people, adults and families in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire, Derbyshire (inc Derby City) and Cheshire East. We support people in housing need or crisis to develop skills and confidence to live independently. We provide services to tackle domestic abuse, increase victims safety and work with perpetrators to address abusive behaviour to make positive change.

Latest Income: £10,694,095
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Cope Childrens Trust

Beneficiary group, Health, Social care, Social welfare

Rainbows Hospice for Children & Young People is a purpose built 14 bedded unit in Loughborough, Leics serving life threatened & life limited children, young people & their families in the East Midlands & South Yorkshire. We aim to provide the highest quality of family centred care. We provide a research based, holistic approach to respite & terminal care, symptom control & bereavement support.

Latest Income: £10,569,258
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Isabel Hospice Limited

Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Social care, Social welfare

Hospice services providing specialist palliative care across home, day centre, outpatient and inpatient settings comprising multi-disciplinary medical, nursing, pre and post bereavement counselling and family support, spiritual care and benefit advice.

Latest Income: £10,450,000
Areas of Operation: Hertfordshire
Status: Registered
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St Wilfrid's Hospice (south Coast) Limited

Health, Housing, Social welfare

St Wilfrid's Hospice provides and promotes high quality specialist palliative care through inpatient & community services. The charity operates a 14 bed inpatient unit; hospice at home service; a day hospice open 3 days a week; a community team caring for up over 230 patients at any one time; a bereavement service; an education centre and support and advice to patients & staff in local hospitals.

Latest Income: £10,375,189
Areas of Operation: Hampshire
Status: Registered
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Black Country Women's Aid

Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Social welfare

Provision of support,and emergency services to vulnerable women and children experiencing rape, sexual assault and domestic abuse. Services include provision of emergency accommodation, floating support services, community support and counselling. Services also include development with agencies to raise awareness of domestic abuse and develop support systems to enable them to access SWA services.

Latest Income: £10,283,519
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Health Limited

Saving of lives, Social welfare

We work to improve the health of the world's poorest people, ensuring people who otherwise would have no support receive basic but life-saving health care and education.

Latest Income: £9,988,307
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Trust For London

Charity and VCS support, Social welfare

We are a charitable organisation that exists to reduce poverty and inequality in London. We do this by funding the voluntary and community sector and others, as well as by using our own expertise and knowledge to support work that tackles poverty and its root causes.

Latest Income: £9,978,639
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Children's Family Trust

Beneficiary group, Social welfare

The relief of children and young persons in need, and in particular those in the care of, or accommodated by, a long authority;The relief of poverty and in particular the assistance of adults who have as children been in local authority care.

Latest Income: £9,745,109
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Signhealth

Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

SignHealth aims to improve healthcare & access to health services for deaf people. As well as campaigning, research & health promotion, we provide supported living schemes and outreach for deaf people with mental health problems. We provide a national Advocacy & Counselling service and support for deaf victims of domestic abuse.

Latest Income: £9,735,635
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Textile Reuse And International Development

Charitable activities, Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfare

TRAID is an environmental and poverty relief charity. TRAID reduces landfill through; the provision of textile recycling facilities, its charity shops and upcycled clothing. Funds raised go to environmental and textile related international development projects and TRAID's education programmes developed to gain greater recycling participation and empathy with the issues surrounding global poverty.

Latest Income: £9,324,811
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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Katharine House Hospice

Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Social care, Social welfare

A provider of hospice services through inpatient, day care and home care.A provider of lymphoedema services.A provider of support to families, those who are bereaved, carers and ex-carers.A provider of home care through a care agency

Latest Income: £9,244,042
Areas of Operation: Staffordshire
Status: Registered
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Wessex Children's Hospice Trust

Beneficiary group, Health, Social welfare

Naomi and Jacks is an independent charity offering expert palliative care for children and young adults at their purpose-built hospice and in the community. They support hundreds of families in central southern England, providing outstanding care, specialist short breaks and bereavement support.

Latest Income: £9,052,177
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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The Macular Disease Society

Research, Social welfare

Beating the fear and isolation of macular disease with world-class research, and the best advice and support.

Latest Income: £8,865,000
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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North Yorkshire Hospice Care

Beneficiary group, Health, Social welfare

North Yorkshire Hospice Care provides a range of services operating as Herriot Hospice Homecare, Saint Michael's Hospice, Just 'B' and Talking Spaces. These services provide a range of end-of-life care services including an In-Patient Unit, Wellbeing, Community and Specialist services; Bereavement Services for adults and children and Mental Health Support Services.

Latest Income: £8,864,883
Areas of Operation: England
Status: Registered
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St Nicholas Hospice Suffolk

Beneficiary group, Health, Social welfare

Care and support to people with life threatening diseases and conditions together with their carers and families including: 12 bedded inpatient unit, day hospice and patient groups, community care, counselling and bereavement support, medical outpatient support, spiritual care.

Latest Income: £8,755,722
Areas of Operation: Norfolk
Status: Registered
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Saint Catherine's Hospice Trust

Health, Housing, Professions, Social welfare

We provide specialist palliative care across Scarborough,Whitby,Ryedale, Bridlington and Driffield. This involves in-patients, out-patient clinics, wellbeing center, hospice at home, specialist palliative community and neurology nurses, lymphoedema, complementary therapy, bereavement support, out of hours support and education and training of other healthcare professionals.

Latest Income: £8,751,762
Areas of Operation: East Riding Of Yorkshire
Status: Registered
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St Luke's Cheshire Hospice

Health, Housing, Social welfare

The Charity's activities includeIn-care, day-care, therapies, home befriending service, lymphoedema clinic, benefits advice,counseling,education,research into palliative care thus improving servicesAlsoDevelopment of a model for dementia care for the end of life,development of an infrastructure for palliative care research,development of a model of a Public Health/end of life approach.

Latest Income: £8,698,175
Areas of Operation: Cheshire East
Status: Registered
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Citizens Advice Manchester

Charitable activities, Social welfare

To promote any charitable purpose for the benefit of the community in the City of Manchester ('the principle area of benefit') and elsewhere by the advancement of education, the protection and preservation of health and the relief of poverty.

Latest Income: £8,330,282
Areas of Operation: England And Wales
Status: Registered
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The Portal Trust

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfare

Grants for education to financially disadvantaged young people under 25 years resident in London. Provision of scholarships and bursaries to individuals, and grants to education projects and activities run by schools and organisations.

Latest Income: £8,221,960
Areas of Operation: London
Status: Registered
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The Royal United Kingdom Beneficent Association

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

Our mission is to enable older people to lead independent and fulfilling lives. We do this by providing high quality advice & information services, befriending & support services and campaigning work on behalf of older people.

Latest Income: £8,155,000
Areas of Operation: Northern Ireland
Status: Registered
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The Martin Laing Foundation

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfare

This is a grant-making trust offering financial support to other charities/voluntary organisations. Grants are made for a wide range of charitable purposes, but there is a particular interest in environmental & conservation projects & in supporting the elderly/infirm & their carers & disadvantaged young people. Projects in Norfolk & Malta may be of particular interest.

Latest Income: £8,027,451
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Child Action Northwest

Beneficiary group, Housing, Social care, Social welfare

To work with disadvantaged and under privelaged children and young people, their families and communities, to improve their life chances.

Latest Income: £8,023,431
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Sands

Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Health, Social welfare

Sands vision is a world where fewer babies die. Sands works to ensure that, when a baby dies, anyone affected receives the best bereavement care and support for as long as they need it. Sands offers a free UK helpline and network of support groups, works with healthcare professionals to improve bereavement care, and involves bereaved families in research to save babies lives.

Latest Income: £8,014,773
Areas of Operation: Various
Status: Registered
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Frequently asked questions about this sector

How many social welfare charities are there in the UK?

There are 7,374 registered social welfare charities on the Charity Commission for England and Wales register at the most recent refresh.

Which is the largest of the 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 social welfare charities?

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 social welfare charities?

Across all 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 social welfare charities?

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.