Community and economic development: charities in England and Wales
Registered21,113charities
Total income£18.45bnlatest returns
Median income£45kper charity
Top-10 share18%of income
Overview
England and Wales has 21,113 registered charities working on community and economic development on the current register extract, of which 18,770 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £18.45bn of income. The median charity took in £45k, while the largest tenth reported £944k 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 community and economic development account for 18% of the total. Across the whole group, 4,966 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.
11,714 of the charities with reported income (62%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 13,737 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.