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.

171.5K

Total Charities

£107.5B

Total Income

Sectors

818

Locations

Top Sectors by Total Income

Sector	Charities	CAGR (3yr)	Income	Expenditure	Reserves	Assets
Education/training	62,836	6.9%	£71.7B	£72.2B	£91.0B	£217.3B
General Charitable Purposes	42,252	6.4%	£28.3B	£27.5B	£32.1B	£96.2B
Religious Activities	28,386	6.3%	£14.3B	£14.0B	£15.1B	£66.2B
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty	24,399	5.7%	£25.4B	£25.2B	£22.7B	£64.1B
Arts/culture/heritage/science	22,792	7.5%	£16.5B	£17.0B	£49.7B	£90.3B
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives	21,362	5.9%	£35.6B	£37.3B	£62.3B	£124.5B
Disability	20,204	6.9%	£21.5B	£21.3B	£20.0B	£49.0B
Amateur Sport	19,345	6.8%	£7.1B	£6.7B	£4.9B	£16.3B
Economic/community Development/employment	16,818	6.2%	£18.4B	£18.3B	£14.0B	£40.6B
Recreation	14,202	7.1%	£5.7B	£5.4B	£4.1B	£12.0B
Environment/conservation/heritage	13,003	6.0%	£13.4B	£13.3B	£16.7B	£49.6B
Other Charitable Purposes	11,414	7.1%	£12.5B	£13.0B	£10.2B	£38.3B
Overseas Aid/famine Relief	7,010	4.3%	£11.2B	£11.5B	£7.6B	£24.6B
Accommodation/housing	6,335	6.3%	£14.5B	£14.3B	£25.2B	£38.5B
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity	5,607	7.9%	£5.2B	£5.1B	£4.9B	£11.9B
Animals	3,598	5.0%	£3.2B	£3.3B	£3.6B	£7.4B
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency	820	6.3%	£827.9M	£798.3M	£2.0B	£3.6B