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3,097 charities work in Suffolk. 113 are behind with their accounts.

2,172 of them work only in Suffolk, with a combined income of £248.8m. The share behind with their accounts, 3.6%, is below the rate for England and Wales as a whole (5.4%).

SuffolkCount
Charities that name Suffolk as an area of operation3,097
Of which work only here2,172
Behind with their accounts113
  in default two years or more76
Income of the charities that work only here£248.8m
Charity Commission register as at 27 September 2026. Every charity in Suffolk (CSV)

Behind with their accounts, largest first

The Charity Commission's own status for each. A charity in default has not filed accounts or an annual return by its deadline.

CharityNo.Last incomeStatusLast accounts to
Headway Norfolk and Waveney Ltd 1040706 £1.1m Accounts overdue 31 March 2024
Adec (Arts Development in East Cambridgeshire) 1043197 £532k Accounts overdue 31 March 2024
East Anglian Railway Museum 1001579 £325k Accounts overdue 30 September 2024
Great Waldingfield Playgroup 1041529 £233k Accounts overdue 31 August 2025
Westgate Whirlybirds 1053558 £177k In default two years or more 31 July 2022
Whitwell Hall Country Centre Ltd 311119 £149k In default two years or more 31 December 2021
Signpost Gunton 1111005 £145k In default two years or more 30 November 2016
Brookside Preschool 299709 £111k Accounts overdue 31 March 2024
The Ipswich Disabled Advice Bureau 1054802 £97k In default two years or more 31 March 2023
The League of Friends of the Patrick Stead Hospital 800844 £95k Accounts overdue 30 September 2024
Emmanuel Pre-School 1132278 £86k Accounts overdue 31 March 2024
Steeple Bumpstead Pre-School 1023388 £69k Accounts overdue 31 July 2024
Lowestoft and District Mencap Society 233331 £69k Accounts overdue 30 September 2024
Mendlesham Pre-School 297230 £68k In default two years or more 31 August 2018
The Centre for All Families Positive Health (Cafph) 1101399 £58k In default two years or more 31 March 2022
Thetford Church of the Nazarene 1165838 £57k In default two years or more 30 September 2020
Haughley Playgroup 1044262 £54k Accounts overdue 31 August 2024
Mothers' Union: (Norwich Diocese) 249682 £44k In default two years or more 31 December 2022
Clock House Arts Association 293804 £40k Accounts overdue 31 October 2024
Whelnetham Community Centre 304890 £39k Accounts overdue 31 March 2024
Botesdale After School Club 1142955 £38k In default two years or more 31 August 2022
Needham Market Pre-School 1049356 £36k In default two years or more 31 August 2013
Otley Under Fives Centre 1013937 £36k In default two years or more 31 August 2021
Moreton Hall School Trust Limited 280927 £32k In default two years or more 31 August 2021
Supported Activities for Everyone 1147267 £32k In default two years or more 31 March 2022
The ST Mary the Virgin Mendlesham Charitable Trust 1204935 £30k Accounts overdue 30 September 2024
The Crito Project 1184526 £29k Accounts overdue 1 June 2025
Hadleigh Young Farmers 291385 £26k Accounts overdue 31 August 2025
Aj's Legacy 1150015 £25k In default two years or more 31 March 2019
Stowmarket and District Young Farmers' Club 272976 £23k In default two years or more 31 July 2013
Parish Hall 304744 £20k In default two years or more 31 December 2022
Mid Suffolk Gymnastic Club 1103610 £20k Accounts overdue 31 August 2024
East Anglian Mixed Martial Arts Academy 1156510 £16k In default two years or more 4 April 2017
The Norfolk Dance Association 284875 £15k In default two years or more 30 April 2015
Rifle Hall Trust 207144 £15k In default two years or more 31 March 2015
Bury ST Edmunds Young Farmers Club 1029504 £14k In default two years or more 31 August 2017
The Benjamin Gibson Wynes Memorial Trust 1049923 £11k Accounts overdue 31 March 2024
Beccles and District Lions Club (CIO) 1194156 £11k Accounts overdue 30 June 2024
Halesworth Day Centre 282056 £10k Accounts overdue 31 December 2023
Mechanical Music Museum Trust 801863 £8,496 In default two years or more 31 May 2023
Fressingfield Playing Field 1053875 £8,009 Accounts overdue 30 April 2024
Village Hall and Recreation Ground and Playing Field 304834 £7,722 In default two years or more 30 September 2023
Friends of Halifax 1032577 £6,804 In default two years or more 30 September 2023
Town Estate Charity 212748 £6,495 In default two years or more 31 December 2021
Bucklesham School Association 1067500 £5,666 Accounts overdue 31 August 2024
Southolt Town Lands 211865 £5,295 Accounts overdue 31 October 2024
Feltwell, Thetford and District Mencap 1012608 £4,870 In default two years or more 10 May 2015
The Friends of ST John's Church, Elmswell 1083116 £4,702 Accounts overdue 31 December 2023
Public Museum 311117 £4,222 In default two years or more 31 March 2004
The Over 60's Club 212028 £4,146 In default two years or more 28 February 2015
Pakefield High School PTFA 1147776 £4,077 In default two years or more 1 September 2023
Sexton's Manor Helping Hands 1078433 £3,130 In default two years or more 31 August 2021
Blind Outdoor Leisure Development 513036 £3,080 In default two years or more 31 December 2017
Gryphon First Aid Unit 1168586 £3,000 Accounts overdue 1 July 2024
Middleton School Parent Teachers Association 1023516 £2,773 In default two years or more 14 May 2018
The Hoxne School Association 1102747 £2,573 In default two years or more 31 August 2018
Sailing Smack Trust Limited 1064726 £2,204 Accounts overdue 31 October 2024
Kessingland Parent and Toddler Group 1038339 £2,148 In default two years or more 31 December 2008
Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffaloes G L E West Suffolk Provincial Grand Lodge Benevolent Fund 252639 £1,962 In default two years or more 31 December 2021
Suffolk Chinese Family Welfare Association 1096568 £1,895 Accounts overdue 31 March 2024

Showing the largest 60 of 113. The CSV has them all.

The largest charities that work only in Suffolk

# CharityNo.Latest income
1 The Seckford Foundation 1110964 £18.5m
2 Albert Memorial College 1114383 £16.3m
3 Britten Pears Arts 261383 £15.3m
4 Abbeycroft Leisure 1117138 £13.5m
5 ST Joseph's College Limited 1051688 £10.9m
6 Suffolk Wildlife Trust 262777 £7.7m
7 Suffolk Community Foundation 1109453 £6.8m
8 Orwell Park School Educational Trust Ltd 310481 £5.1m
9 Old Buckenham Hall (Brettenham) Educational Trust Ltd 310490 £4.2m
10 East Suffolk Trust 1213569 £3.7m
11 The New Wolsey Theatre Company Limited 1082016 £3.4m
12 Ipswich Town Foundation 1157518 £3.1m
13 Bows and Arrows 1129046 £2.8m
14 The Cathedral Church of Saint James and Saint Edmund, Bury ST Edmunds 1202911 £2.7m
15 Bury ST Edmunds Theatre Management Limited 242977 £2.6m
16 Marina Theatre Trust 1149133 £2.2m
17 Suffolk Family Carers 1069937 £2.2m
18 Orwell Mencap 1117888 £2.1m
19 Age UK Suffolk 1085900 £2.1m
20 Dance East 1066825 £2.1m
21 South Lee School Limited 310491 £2.1m
22 Headway Suffolk and Norfolk Ltd 1075338 £1.8m
23 Bethesda Eventide Homes Ipswich 1051043 £1.8m
24 Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Suffolk Central Branch 206269 £1.6m
25 The Mix Stowmarket Ltd 1149539 £1.5m

The largest charities working in Suffolk

Including national charities that name Suffolk among their areas.

# CharityNo.Latest income
1 Rothamsted Research Limited 802038 £29.3m
2 Ipswich School 310493 £26.1m
3 The Chelmsford Diocesan Board of Finance 249505 £23.0m
4 East Anglia's Children's Hospices 1069284 £22.4m
5 Theatre Royal (Norwich) Trust Limited 262259 £20.2m
6 ST Elizabeth Hospice 289154 £19.3m
7 East Anglian Air Ambulance 1083876 £18.8m
8 The Seckford Foundation 1110964 £18.5m
9 Essex & Herts Air Ambulance Trust 1108989 £16.9m
10 Albert Memorial College 1114383 £16.3m
11 Britten Pears Arts 261383 £15.3m
12 Autism Anglia 1063717 £14.0m
13 Addenbrooke's Charitable Trust 1170103 £13.9m
14 Abbeycroft Leisure 1117138 £13.5m
15 The Norwich Diocesan Board of Finance Limited 249318 £13.4m
16 ST Mary's School Cambridge 290180 £13.3m
17 YMCA Trinity Group 1069810 £12.5m
18 ST Joseph's College Limited 1051688 £10.9m
19 ST Edmundsbury and Ipswich Diocesan Board of Finance 248919 £10.1m
20 ST Nicholas Hospice Suffolk 287773 £8.8m
21 The Benjamin Foundation 1124936 £8.7m
22 Norfolk Community Foundation 1110817 £8.3m
23 East Anglia Roman Catholic Diocesan Trust 278742 £8.1m
24 Charity for Roman Catholic Purposes Administered in Connection with the English Province of the Community of the Religious of Jesus and Mary 247358 £8.0m
25 Suffolk Wildlife Trust 262777 £7.7m

What they work on

Education/training 1,350General Charitable Purposes 981Amateur Sport 585Arts/culture/heritage/science 572Religious Activities 492The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty 459Environment/conservation/heritage 444Recreation 427

Areas of operation are what each charity tells the Charity Commission. A charity can name several. How this site counts.