UK Charity Sector Insights

Name: UK Charity Database
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Aggregated data and analysis across the entire UK charity sector.

171.7K

Total Charities

£107.9B

Total Income

Sectors

808

Locations

Top Sectors by Total Income

Sector	Charities	CAGR (3yr)	Income	Expenditure	Reserves	Assets
Education/training	62,826	6.7%	£72.2B	£73.1B	£93.1B	£221.6B
General Charitable Purposes	42,344	6.1%	£28.5B	£27.7B	£32.6B	£98.3B
Religious Activities	28,489	6.1%	£14.3B	£14.3B	£15.0B	£67.2B
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty	24,412	5.6%	£25.5B	£25.4B	£23.0B	£65.7B
Arts/culture/heritage/science	22,778	7.3%	£16.6B	£17.6B	£51.5B	£92.9B
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives	21,330	5.8%	£35.7B	£37.9B	£64.3B	£127.1B
Disability	20,270	6.8%	£21.7B	£21.5B	£20.1B	£50.3B
Amateur Sport	19,302	6.5%	£7.2B	£6.8B	£5.0B	£16.5B
Economic/community Development/employment	16,786	6.2%	£18.5B	£18.4B	£14.1B	£41.2B
Recreation	14,229	7.0%	£5.8B	£5.5B	£4.2B	£12.2B
Environment/conservation/heritage	12,991	5.9%	£13.6B	£13.5B	£16.8B	£50.2B
Other Charitable Purposes	11,444	6.8%	£12.7B	£13.0B	£10.0B	£38.7B
Overseas Aid/famine Relief	6,976	4.1%	£11.1B	£11.5B	£7.6B	£24.7B
Accommodation/housing	6,327	6.2%	£14.5B	£14.3B	£25.4B	£38.7B
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity	5,628	7.7%	£5.3B	£5.2B	£5.0B	£13.6B
Animals	3,605	4.9%	£3.3B	£3.5B	£3.7B	£7.6B
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency	818	5.7%	£862.5M	£888.5M	£2.1B	£3.6B