Overseas aid and international: charities in England and Wales

Overview

England and Wales has 9,243 registered charities working on overseas aid and international on the current register extract, of which 8,424 reported income in their latest return. Together they reported £10.79bn of income. The median charity took in £31k, while the largest tenth reported £551k 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 overseas aid and international account for 37% of the total. Across the whole group, 2,297 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.

5,912 of the charities with reported income (70%) took in under £100k a year. Pages for the 5,771 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.