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as at 27 September 2026

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59,090 charities work on general charitable purposes

That is 34.4% of the register. Together they report £28.5bn of income, and 3,660 (6.2%) 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 Charities Aid Foundation 268369 £1.4bn
2 Save the Children International 1076822 £1.1bn
3 The Ormiston Trust 1164358 £436.9m
4 Oasis Charitable Trust 1026487 £344.5m
5 The Salvation Army 214779 £338.3m
6 The Eric Wright Charitable Trust 1002966 £308.9m
7 The British Red Cross Society 220949 £293.5m
8 The Royal National Lifeboat Institution 209603 £286.7m
9 Founders Pledge Ltd 1162201 £245.8m
10 Islamic Relief Worldwide 328158 £239.0m
11 National Philanthropic Trust UK Limited 1181128 £225.4m
12 Quadrature Climate Foundation 1187301 £221.7m
13 Ubs UK Donor-Advised Foundation 1153551 £181.2m
14 Fondation Chanel 1195353 £172.8m
15 The Royal British Legion 219279 £168.5m
16 The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux 279057 £167.8m
17 UK Online Giving Foundation 1164887 £166.3m
18 The Julia Rausing Trust 1213572 £165.8m
19 Garfield Weston Foundation 230260 £165.4m
20 Action for Children 1097940 £163.4m
21 The Master Charitable Trust 1139904 £155.3m
22 Southampton Row Trust Limited 1079020 £146.8m
23 Denise Coates Foundation 1149110 £144.0m
24 The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF 1072612 £135.3m
25 Age UK 1128267 £131.8m
26 The Football Foundation 1079309 £128.2m
27 The Leverhulme Trust 1159154 £124.5m
28 ST Mungo Community Housing Association 1149085 £124.0m
29 HCT Group 1091318 £123.7m
30 The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children 216401 £120.3m
31 Methodist Independent Schools Trust 1142794 £118.2m
32 Sense, the National Deafblind and Rubella Association 289868 £101.9m
33 The Greencliffe Foundation Ltd 1196347 £101.8m
34 The Gatsby Charitable Foundation 251988 £95.5m
35 Autism Initiatives Group 1170634 £93.1m
36 Prism the Gift Fund 1099682 £91.4m
37 Masonic Charitable Foundation 1164703 £90.8m
38 Human Appeal 1154288 £90.2m
39 HF Trust Limited 313069 £85.0m
40 Camfed International 1029161 £84.6m

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