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.

171.2K

Total Charities

£106.0B

Total Income

Sectors

826

Locations

Top Sectors by Total Income

Sector	Charities	CAGR (3yr)	Income	Expenditure	Reserves	Assets
Education/training	13,609	6.6%	£77.7B	£77.1B	£99.8B	£239.1B
General Charitable Purposes	7,010	5.7%	£30.0B	£29.4B	£36.6B	£110.8B
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives	5,977	5.8%	£38.4B	£39.7B	£67.1B	£135.9B
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty	5,809	5.5%	£28.5B	£27.8B	£29.0B	£81.1B
Disability	4,707	6.5%	£24.3B	£23.5B	£25.1B	£62.2B
Religious Activities	4,312	5.9%	£13.4B	£13.2B	£17.4B	£70.1B
Economic/community Development/employment	4,262	5.7%	£22.1B	£21.8B	£19.2B	£56.0B
Arts/culture/heritage/science	3,533	6.6%	£16.9B	£17.0B	£52.0B	£94.7B
Environment/conservation/heritage	2,682	6.7%	£14.2B	£13.9B	£19.1B	£56.0B
Accommodation/housing	2,458	6.7%	£18.6B	£18.2B	£31.0B	£60.3B
Amateur Sport	2,191	7.3%	£7.5B	£6.9B	£6.3B	£20.0B
Other Charitable Purposes	2,099	6.3%	£12.8B	£13.1B	£11.1B	£41.1B
Recreation	1,489	7.9%	£5.3B	£4.9B	£4.4B	£13.3B
Overseas Aid/famine Relief	1,366	5.4%	£12.0B	£12.4B	£8.7B	£27.2B
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity	1,169	5.7%	£5.3B	£5.3B	£5.6B	£14.2B
Animals	669	6.9%	£3.1B	£3.1B	£3.7B	£7.8B
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency	214	5.0%	£883.9M	£908.3M	£2.0B	£4.2B