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as at 27 September 2026

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25,860 charities work on amateur sport

That is 15.0% of the register. Together they report £7.1bn of income, and 1,730 (6.7%) are behind with their accounts. A charity can list several purposes, so it can appear under more than one.

The largest, by income

# CharityNo.Latest income
1 The Master Charitable Trust 1139904 £155.3m
2 University of Chester 525938 £154.2m
3 Cardiff Metropolitan University 1140762 £148.6m
4 Denise Coates Foundation 1149110 £144.0m
5 The Football Foundation 1079309 £128.2m
6 Sense, the National Deafblind and Rubella Association 289868 £101.9m
7 The Royal National Institute of Blind People 226227 £95.9m
8 The Keepers and Governors of the Possessions, Revenues and Goods of the Free Grammar School of John Lyon, Within the Town of Harrow-On-The-Hill 310033 £90.8m
9 Al-Khair Foundation 1126808 £74.8m
10 YHA (England and Wales) 306122 £66.1m
11 The King's Trust 1079675 £63.9m
12 The London Marathon Charitable Trust Limited 283813 £62.7m
13 The Albert Gubay Charitable Foundation 1193970 £55.4m
14 BH Live 1138311 £48.1m
15 The Scout Association 306101 £46.9m
16 Dawat-E-Hadiyah Trust (United Kingdom) 294807 £44.1m
17 England and Wales Cricket Trust 1112540 £41.7m
18 The Percy Hedley Foundation 515943 £40.5m
19 The Premier League Charitable Fund 1137208 £39.1m
20 Forest School, London 312677 £39.0m
21 Legacy Leisure Limited 1152401 £37.1m
22 Sheffield City Trust 700520 £34.3m
23 Innovate Trust Ltd 1010541 £33.3m
24 YMCA Chiltern Group 1102301 £31.0m
25 Taunton School Educational Charity 1081420 £30.5m
26 YMCA ST Paul's Group 1041923 £30.2m
27 The Simon Gibson Charitable Trust 269501 £29.1m
28 Alexandra Park and Palace 281991 £28.6m
29 Birtenshaw 1092798 £28.1m
30 Groundwork London 1121105 £27.9m
31 Blind Veterans UK 216227 £27.8m
32 Seashell Trust 1092655 £26.7m
33 Vision Redbridge Culture and Leisure 1122720 £26.1m
34 YMCA Robin Hood Group 243044 £25.3m
35 Depaul UK 802384 £25.3m
36 Get Golfing CIO 1179513 £25.2m
37 Rugby Football Foundation 1100277 £24.9m
38 Magdalen College School Oxford Limited 295785 £24.7m
39 The Rotherwick Foundation 1058900 £24.2m
40 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust 1103465 £24.2m

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