Housing and shelter: charities in England and Wales

Overview

England and Wales has 7,660 registered charities working on housing and shelter on the current register extract, of which 7,085 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £14.50bn of income. The median charity took in £68k, while the largest tenth reported £2.5m 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 housing and shelter account for 16% of the total. Across the whole group, 1,753 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.

3,941 of the charities with reported income (56%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 5,663 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.