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’ve worked for Prospex for a number of years. Prospex are “a community-based charity working to improve the lives of young people in the Caledonian Road area of North King’s Cross” (which is in North London). They basically meet with young people in a totally non judgmental way and do their best to support and encourage them. The work they do is really important and a recommend you check them out.

The site uses Wordpress as a content management system which allows the staff to update the site themselves. I’ve also set up a newsletter email tool and worked with Prospex to develop a database to keep a record of all the work they do and the people they work with.