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as at 27 September 2026

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28,005 charities work on the advancement of health or saving of lives

That is 16.3% of the register. Together they report £35.4bn of income, and 1,668 (6.0%) 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 Nuffield Health 205533 £1.5bn
2 Save the Children International 1076822 £1.1bn
3 Cancer Research UK 1089464 £734.8m
4 Lloyd's Register Foundation 1145988 £691.7m
5 Cardiff University 1136855 £634.1m
6 Wellcome Trust 210183 £589.5m
7 British Heart Foundation 225971 £410.6m
8 Oasis Charitable Trust 1026487 £344.5m
9 Change, Grow, Live 1079327 £339.7m
10 The Salvation Army 214779 £338.3m
11 Msi Reproductive Choices 265543 £309.5m
12 The British Red Cross Society 220949 £293.5m
13 The Royal National Lifeboat Institution 209603 £286.7m
14 Royal Commonwealth Society for the Blind 207544 £283.8m
15 Methodist Homes 1083995 £283.3m
16 The Save the Children Fund 213890 £262.5m
17 The Francis Crick Institute Limited 1140062 £246.2m
18 Macmillan Cancer Support 261017 £245.5m
19 Islamic Relief Worldwide 328158 £239.0m
20 ST Andrew's Healthcare 1104951 £235.6m
21 Community Integrated Care 519996 £197.4m
22 Turning Point 234887 £192.5m
23 Trustees of the London Clinic Limited 211136 £188.1m
24 Marie Curie 207994 £181.1m
25 Genome Research Limited 1021457 £180.3m
26 The Royal British Legion 219279 £168.5m
27 The National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux 279057 £167.8m
28 General Medical Council 1089278 £167.5m
29 The Halo Trust 1001813 £165.6m
30 Ubs Optimus Foundation UK 1153537 £157.0m
31 Walsall Housing Group Limited 1108779 £155.4m
32 The Master Charitable Trust 1139904 £155.3m
33 Cardiff Metropolitan University 1140762 £148.6m
34 Denise Coates Foundation 1149110 £144.0m
35 Alzheimer's Society 296645 £143.8m
36 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity 1160024 £140.4m
37 International Medical Corps (UK) 1093861 £136.4m
38 The United Kingdom Committee for UNICEF 1072612 £135.3m
39 Age UK 1128267 £131.8m
40 Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine 222655 £129.3m

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