Social welfare Charities
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Major UK charities curated by Charity Finder for size, recognition, and registry coverage. Click through for full profiles, financials, and trustees.
Global Relief Trust
Economic and community development, Saving of lives, Social welfareGlobal Relief Trust (GRT) provides humanitarian aid and relief, such as food, water, clothing, shelter, medical equipment, education as well as developing sustainable projects to the poor and needy in; Bangladesh, Yemen, Occupied Palestinian Territories , Syria, Lebanon, Turkiye, Pakistan, Kashmir, Malawi, Uganda and Rohingya.
Lancaster Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust
Professions, Religion, Social welfareThe 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.
Honeycomb Charitable Services Limited
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfareWe 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.
Helen & Douglas House
Beneficiary group, Health, Social welfareRelief of sickness and stress and provision of palliative and supportive care to children and young people with life-shortening conditions to enable them to live as well and as fully as possible to the end of their lives, supporting their needs and wishes at the time of their death. To promote the well-being of their families and carers with counselling, practical support and bereavement care.
Safelives
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Social welfareSafeLives, formerly known as CAADA is a national charity supporting a strong multi-agency response to domestic abuse. SafeLives provides practical tools, training, guidance, quality assurance, policy and data insight to support professionals and organisations working with domestic abuse victims. The aim is to protect the highest risk victims and their children.
Cope Childrens Trust
Beneficiary group, Health, Social care, Social welfareRainbows 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.
Severn Wye Energy Agency
Economic and community development, Environment, Social welfareEducation and promotion of sustainable resource use, energy efficiency and renewable energy to tackle the fuel poverty and to improve health, wellbeing and quality of life for all. Protection of the environment, relief of poverty and community regeneration through sustainable development solutions, training and delivery, to meet the needs of the present without compromising future generations.
Isabel Hospice Limited
Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Social care, Social welfareHospice 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.
Magic Breakfast
Beneficiary group, Education, Social welfareMagic Breakfast's aim is to alleviate child hunger and poverty as a barrier to education through the provision of healthy breakfasts to children across England and Scotland. This is being achieved through three key activities: food aid, building capacity in school communities to reach every child at risk of hunger and making the case for change to ensure permanent funding for school breakfasts.
St Wilfrid's Hospice (south Coast) Limited
Health, Housing, Social welfareSt 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.
Black Country Women's Aid
Beneficiary group, Health, Housing, Social welfareProvision 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.
The Junction Foundation
Associations, Beneficiary group, Social welfareTHE JUNCTION FOUNDATION PROVIDES A RANGE OF FREE SOCIAL ACTIVITIES, EDUCATION, INFORMATION, SUPPORT, AND THERAPEUTIC SERVICES TO CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE UNDER THE AGE OF 25 AND THEIR FAMILIES IN THE TEES VALLEY REGION.
National Zakat Foundation (nzf)
Beneficiary group, Housing, Religion, Social welfareNational Zakat Foundation (NZF) is a national charity which enables local Muslims to connect their Zakat to those who need it in the UK. NZF provides support to individuals and families in need through grants for Hardship Relief, Housing & Work, and Education.NZF also helps educate Zakat givers about calculating and giving Zakat correctly.
The Diana Startin Foundation CIO
Health, Social welfareThe Diana Startin Foundation CIO is a charity that supports the helping of the old, the sick, the disabled, and the disadvantaged. It also supports the relief of patients suffering from Cancer, Parkinson's Disease and Strokes. The charity aims to support local charities within Warwickshire and surrounding areas by donating funds which were given by the founder.
The Jongen Charitable Trust
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Housing, Social welfareThe charity is an independent grant-making organisation created to benefit the public in general by making grants to selected charitable organisations that work in the broad areas of disadvantaged young people, homelessness, refugees and asylum seekers, education and access to opportunity. Applications for funding are by invitation only and we are unable to respond to unsolicited proposals.
Southern Domestic Abuse Service
Beneficiary group, Housing, Social welfareWe provide inclusive services to all people affected by domestic abuse, stalking and harassment. Services include: refuge and safe accommodation, community-based services, women only group work, specialist work with children/young people, Harmful Practices community work/development, work with people using abusive behaviours, domestic abuse preventative work and training.
Health Limited
Saving of lives, Social welfareWe 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.
Trust For London
Charity and VCS support, Social welfareWe 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.
The Message Trust
Beneficiary group, Facilities, Social welfareThe Message Trust is a worldwide movement with a passion to share the love of Jesus Christ in words and actions with the hardest-to-reach young people and vulnerable adults, through creative mission, community transformation, Christ-centred enterprise and programmes working with those who are poor.
Issa Foundation
Economic and community development, Education, Social welfareThe principal objects of the charity are the advancement of education health and employment of people in need, in particular disadvantaged communities, by supporting projects that address these issues. The charity may also promote other identified projects from time to time as determined by the trustees.
Dawat-E-Islami UK
Religion, Social welfareTo advance the Islamic faith and to help the poor and needy.
The Children's Family Trust
Beneficiary group, Social welfareThe 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.
Signhealth
Charitable activities, Health, Social welfareSignHealth 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.
Khodorkovsky Foundation
Beneficiary group, Charitable activities, Education, Social welfareThe charity supports the Podmoskovny Lyceum, a boarding school for 168 socially deprived children, situated outside of Moscow, Russia, and provides grants for student scholarships in Russia and the UK.
Kids Out UK
Arts, Beneficiary group, Social welfareKidsOut brings fun and happiness into the lives of disadvantaged children. We do this by providing day trips, fun experiences, toys and books to those who might otherwise have none, throughout the UK, helping them regain some sense of normality while promoting wellbeing.
Frequently asked questions about this sector
How many social welfare charities are there in the UK?
There are 23,578 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?
Change, Grow, Live is the largest by latest reported annual income (£339.7m). 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 £14.6bn 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 86.5%. 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 £515k. 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.