Arts, culture, heritage and science: charities in England and Wales
Registered30,006charities
Total income£16.66bnlatest returns
Median income£24kper charity
Top-10 share23%of income
Overview
England and Wales has 30,006 registered charities working on arts, culture, heritage and science on the current register extract, of which 27,135 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £16.66bn of income. The median charity took in £24k, while the largest tenth reported £454k or more, so a typical donation goes to a far smaller organisation than the household names at the top of this list.
Income is concentrated: the ten largest charities working on arts, culture, heritage and science account for 23% of the total. Across the whole group, 6,438 charities have a note from the register, such as overdue accounts or three years of spending above income, and those notes are shown on each charity's page.
20,307 of the charities with reported income (75%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 18,575 charities with several years of accounts include their full income history, a comparison with similar-sized peers and a breakdown of where the money comes from.