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as at 27 September 2026

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29,995 charities work on arts/culture/heritage/science

That is 17.5% of the register. Together they report £16.6bn of income, and 1,349 (4.5%) 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 British Council 209131 £1.0bn
2 The Arts Council of England 1036733 £843.1m
3 Wellcome Trust 210183 £589.5m
4 The Royal National Lifeboat Institution 209603 £286.7m
5 The Francis Crick Institute Limited 1140062 £246.2m
6 Canal & River Trust 1146792 £232.6m
7 University of Wales:trinity Saint David 1149535 £209.8m
8 Royal Opera House Covent Garden Foundation 211775 £182.1m
9 The Master Charitable Trust 1139904 £155.3m
10 The English Heritage Trust 1140351 £155.2m
11 University of Chester 525938 £154.2m
12 Cardiff Metropolitan University 1140762 £148.6m
13 Denise Coates Foundation 1149110 £144.0m
14 Historic Royal Palaces 1068852 £138.6m
15 The Royal National Theatre 224223 £128.7m
16 Museum of London 1139250 £128.5m
17 The British Film Institute 287780 £128.1m
18 The Royal Horticultural Society 222879 £124.8m
19 The British Academy for the Promotion of Historical Philosophical and Philological Studies 233176 £106.2m
20 Trinity College Cambridge 1137604 £105.5m
21 Sense, the National Deafblind and Rubella Association 289868 £101.9m
22 The Royal National Institute of Blind People 226227 £95.9m
23 The Gatsby Charitable Foundation 251988 £95.5m
24 Aga Khan Foundation (United Kingdom) 266518 £91.3m
25 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
26 National Oceanography Centre 1185265 £87.9m
27 The Royal Collection Trust 1016972 £85.3m
28 The Institute of Physics 293851 £82.4m
29 The Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford-Upon-Avon 212481 £82.0m
30 John Innes Centre 223852 £78.8m
31 UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology 1185618 £76.7m
32 Al-Khair Foundation 1126808 £74.8m
33 The Royal Society of Chemistry 207890 £73.4m
34 The Corporation of the Hall of Arts and Sciences 254543 £72.1m
35 Ako Foundation 1151815 £70.2m
36 Wjec Cbac Limited 1073332 £66.5m
37 Reuben Foundation 1094130 £64.3m
38 Southbank Centre 298909 £58.3m
39 Cyngor Celfyddydau Cymru 1034245 £57.7m
40 Nesta 1144091 £55.3m

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