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.

171.9K

Total Charities

£108.0B

Total Income

Sectors

805

Locations

Top Sectors by Total Income

Sector	Charities	CAGR (3yr)	Income	Expenditure	Reserves	Assets
Education/training	62,815	6.6%	£72.4B	£73.3B	£93.1B	£222.1B
General Charitable Purposes	42,415	6.1%	£28.5B	£27.7B	£32.6B	£98.6B
Religious Activities	28,590	5.9%	£14.4B	£14.4B	£15.2B	£67.4B
The Prevention Or Relief Of Poverty	24,468	5.5%	£25.7B	£25.5B	£23.1B	£66.0B
Arts/culture/heritage/science	22,769	7.2%	£16.6B	£17.6B	£51.6B	£93.1B
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives	21,344	5.7%	£35.7B	£38.1B	£64.5B	£127.3B
Disability	20,309	6.7%	£21.8B	£21.7B	£20.2B	£50.5B
Amateur Sport	19,252	6.5%	£7.2B	£6.8B	£5.0B	£16.6B
Economic/community Development/employment	16,777	6.2%	£18.6B	£18.4B	£14.2B	£41.3B
Recreation	14,235	7.1%	£5.8B	£5.5B	£4.2B	£12.2B
Environment/conservation/heritage	13,000	5.8%	£13.7B	£13.6B	£16.9B	£50.5B
Other Charitable Purposes	11,482	6.8%	£12.7B	£13.0B	£10.1B	£38.8B
Overseas Aid/famine Relief	6,966	4.0%	£11.1B	£11.5B	£7.6B	£24.8B
Accommodation/housing	6,323	6.3%	£14.5B	£14.4B	£25.4B	£38.9B
Human Rights/religious Or Racial Harmony/equality Or Diversity	5,637	7.4%	£5.3B	£5.2B	£5.0B	£13.6B
Animals	3,612	4.8%	£3.3B	£3.5B	£3.7B	£7.6B
Armed Forces/emergency Service Efficiency	817	5.7%	£898.1M	£890.6M	£2.1B	£3.7B