I recently got thinking about the big charities in the UK and got curious about which charities in the UK are the biggest. I could not find any good list on the Internet so I thought I’d make one!

I started by looking at the charity commision which has a brake down of each charity which includes the last few years income and expenditure. I then wrote a little (a rather bodgy) PHP script to take the money figures and create a MySQL table of figures. It frustrates me that with all the information being put in accessible feeds and APIs by the government, information on charities (as far as I can see) is not. In fact it’s in very badly written HTML (could this be a way of stopping people ripping the data?).

Anyway here are the top 100 charities in the UK based on income in the 2006-2007 period:

	Rank	Name	Charity Number	Income
	1	THE ARTS COUNCIL OF ENGLAND	1036733	£589,973,000
	2	THE BRITISH COUNCIL	209131	£551,065,195
	3	CANCER RESEARCH UK	1089464	£467,636,000
	4	NUFFIELD HOSPITALS	205533	£451,365,000
	5	THE CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION	268369	£441,640,000
	6	THE NATIONAL TRUST	205846	£325,654,000
	7	THE CHILDREN’S INVESTMENT FUND FOUNDATION (UK)	1091043	£324,493,066
	8	WELLCOME TRUST	210183	£293,744,823
	9	OXFAM GB	202918	£290,700,000
	10	THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS	242451	£263,381,000
	11	ANCHOR TRUST	1052183	£253,082,000
	12	CITB-CONSTRUCTIONSKILLS	264289	£252,411,000
	13	NCH	1097940	£217,711,000
	14	BRITISH RED CROSS	220949	£200,571,000
	15	BARNARDO’S	216250	£191,846,000
	16	UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION LTD	313999	£184,887,000
	17	MENCAP	222377	£177,840,000
	18	THE GIRLS’ DAY SCHOOL TRUST	306983	£177,275,000
	19	BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION	225971	£171,087,000
	20	NSPCC	216401	£148,834,229
	21	THE SAVE THE CHILDREN FUND	213890	£148,432,207
	22	LEONARD CHESHIRE DISABILITY	218186	£145,930,000
	23	ASSESSMENT AND QUALIFICATIONS ALLIANCE	1073334	£144,924,000
	24	RNLI	209603	£137,100,000
	25	PEABODY TRUST	206061	£132,709,000
	26	THE SALVATION ARMY	214779	£131,180,000
	27	UNITED LEARNING TRUST	1093277	£120,517,000
	28	THE GATSBY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	251988	£118,886,000
	29	MARIE CURIE CANCER CARE	207994	£109,646,862
	30	THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BLIND PEOPLE	226227	£107,824,000
	31	ACTIONAID	274467	£107,692,000
	32	R S P C A	219099	£106,507,486
	33	THE WOODARD CORPORATION	1096270	£105,734,132
	34	MACMILLAN	261017	£102,075,000
	35	ST ANDREW’S HEALTHCARE	1104951	£100,739,000
	36	THE ROYAL SOCIETY	207043	£99,710,000
	37	ROYAL SOCIETY FOR THE PROTECTION OF BIRDS	207076	£99,356,000
	38	SCOPE	208231	£98,322,000
	39	CHRISTIAN AID	1105851	£93,292,000
	40	QUALITY IMPROVEMENT AGENCY	1044145	£93,210,000
	41	THE GUINNESS TRUST	208076	£92,129,603
	42	THE ROYAL OPERA	211775	£91,448,000
	43	SPORT RELIEF	326568	£89,381,652
	44	AGE CONCERN	261794	£86,488,000
	45	WRVS	1015988	£84,086,390
	46	WELLCOME TRUST SANGER INSTITUTE	1021457	£83,893,000
	47	THE SUE RYDER FOUNDATION	1052076	£82,234,000
	48	CANTERBURY CHRIST CHURCH UNIVERSITY	1098136	£81,074,000
	49	PETAID	208217	£79,745,082
	50	HELP THE AGED	272786	£79,588,000
	51	THE SALVATION ARMY SOCIAL SERVICES	215174	£78,049,000
	52	MHA CARE GROUP	1083994	£77,531,000
	53	CFBT EDUCATION TRUST	270901	£75,909,000
	54	THE LONDON CLINIC	211136	£75,462,000
	55	INDEPENDENT LIVING (EXTENSION) FUND	1019080	£74,961,313
	56	COMMUNITY INTEGRATED CARE	519996	£74,455,039
	57	AUTISM UK	269425	£74,372,000
	58	THE ORDERS OF ST JOHN CARE TRUST	1048355	£73,895,000
	59	METHODIST HOMES FOR THE AGED	1083995	£73,885,000
	60	THE PRIORY OF ENGLAND AND THE ISLANDS	1077265	£73,456,000
	61	THE SHAW TRUST LIMITED	287785	£70,302,000
	62	SENSE	289868	£69,395,439
	63	GENERAL MEDICAL COUNCIL	1089278	£67,649,000
	64	THE GUIDE DOGS FOR THE BLIND ASSOCIATION	209617	£63,821,000
	65	THE UNITED CHURCH SCHOOLS TRUST	1016538	£63,543,000
	66	SIGHTSAVERS INTERNATIONAL	207544	£61,838,000
	67	THE ARCHBISHOPS’ COUNCIL	1074857	£60,962,000
	68	ROYAL COLLEGE OF NURSING	276435	£60,074,000
	69	NACRO	226171	£59,756,000
	70	YHA (ENGLAND AND WALES) LIMITED	306122	£59,341,000
	71	THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY	222879	£57,115,000
	72	THE DAUGHTERS OF THE CROSS OF LIEGE	1068661	£56,197,000
	73	WALSALL HOUSING TRUST LIMITED	1108779	£55,004,000
	74	THE MICHAEL UREN FOUNDATION	1094102	£54,584,016
	75	INTERNATIONAL PLANNED PARENTHOOD FEDERATION	229476	£54,464,021
	76	LEVERHULME TRUST	288371	£54,012,000
	77	THE FOOTBALL FOUNDATION	1079309	£53,914,938
	78	THE MUSEUMS, LIBRARIES AND ARCHIVES COUNCIL	1079666	£52,674,000
	79	CATHOLIC AGENCY FOR OVERSEAS DEVELOPMENT	285776	£52,075,000
	80	SHEFFIELD CITY TRUST	700520	£50,963,000
	81	TEARFUND	265464	£50,580,000
	82	SPECIALIST SCHOOLS AND ACADEMIES TRUST	296729	£50,209,000
	83	THE COLLEGE OF LAW	271297	£49,591,000
	84	THE HARPUR TRUST	204817	£49,348,000
	85	THE ROYAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR DEAF PEOPLE	207720	£49,213,000
	86	SHELTER, NATIONAL CAMPAIGN FOR HOMELESS PEOPLE LIM	263710	£49,115,000
	87	THE NATIONAL THEATRE	224223	£48,435,000
	88	UNITED RESPONSE	265249	£48,337,000
	89	HISTORIC ROYAL PALACES	1068852	£48,318,016
	90	LIVERPOOL HOPE UNIVERSITY	1060579	£46,334,075
	91	MARIE STOPES INTERNATIONAL	265543	£46,322,983
	92	THE CHURCH OF JESUS CHRIST OF LATTER-DAY SAINTS (WELFARE)	274605	£45,849,000
	93	WORLD WIDE FUND FOR NATURE	1081247	£45,404,000
	94	JEWISH CARE	802559	£45,215,000
	95	LEARNING AND SKILLS NETWORK	1113456	£45,171,000
	96	THE PRINCE’S TRUST	1079675	£45,008,000
	97	CARE INTERNATIONAL UK	292506	£44,950,000
	98	THE INSTITUTION OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY	211014	£44,044,000
	99	KNOWSLEY HOUSING TRUST	1103644	£43,909,000
	100	THE INSTITUTE FOR ANIMAL HEALTH	228824	£43,627,000

Obviously there are a couple of flaws which could have effected this list, namely:

• Many charities are slit into several different charity numbers (for example by region or cause), which would give them a distinct disadvantage.
• Some charities give money to other charities, so we’re counting the same money twice!
• Some charities accounts aren’t up to date on the site.
• The script is very bodgey, so some data might simply be missed.

I’ve recently been doing a site for a very old church in York called Holy Trinity which is no longer used as a church but is conserved by The Churches Conversation Trust where it gets around 50,000 visitors a year. They were keen to develop a site to give more information and pictures than what was currently available on the trust’s website. The new site is a at www.yorkholytrinity.org.uk. All the photography on the site was done with my new camera, the Canon Eos350. Below are some of the pictures:

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I recently came across this effect whist stumbling. It’s very simple to set up and I love the results. It uses the lens blur filter found with Photoshop CS. Here’s how it’s done:

• Press Q to go into quick mask mode
• Select gradient with a ‘reflected gradient’ style and draw a vertical line from the center of the photo.
• Press Q again to return to the normal mode.
• go to filters > blur > lens blur.
• Play about to get the perfect picture and enjoy!
• You can also adjust the saturation to make it a bit more colourful.

So here is The University Of York - toy town style:

See the rest of the pictures by reading the full post.

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