How to find the best charities
Sifting through more than 170,000 charities registered in the UK alone is really difficult, so here are three ways to fast track your search process and identify charities that have these characteristics of success:
Use this data together with your preferences for location, beneficiaries, type of intervention and size to find effective charities.
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Spending: £82,282
Growth rate: 224.3%
Area of operations: National Supported by 3 major donors:
Running workshops and events, providing learning materials, organising work experience placements, and building online networks to develop a proactive youth conservation movement in the UK with a ... more
Spending: £811,801
Growth rate: 55.2%
Area of operations: National Supported by 3 major donors:
Action Tutoring provides free tuition to pupils from low-income backgrounds through partnerships with schools, using high quality volunteer tutors, aiming to ensure pupils are equipped in English and ... more
Spending: £1,026,335
Growth rate: 9.9%
Area of operations: National Supported by 5 major donors
Best Beginnings creates and disseminates engaging, evidence-based resources including the Baby Buddy phone app, From Bump to Breastfeeding DVD, Small Wonders DVD, Baby Express Magazine and Maternal ... more
Spending: £356,270
Growth rate: 24.5%
Area of operations: Throughout London, Surrey, Peterborough City Supported by 7 major donors
We support women experiencing severe disadvantages in the period before, during and after the birth of their babies. We run groups and give one to one support to women in four prisons and in the ... more
Spending: £760,712
Growth rate: 37.9%
Area of operations: National Supported by 4 major donors
City Harvest helps put surplus food to good use in a sustainable way, by distributing to organisations that feed the hungry in London
Spending: £973,863
Growth rate: -2.3%
Area of operations: India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini Supported by 2 major donors:
Excellent Development supports rural dryland communities to work their way out of poverty with dignity. Working with local partners, we support rural communities to gain access to clean water close to ... more
Spending: £425,797
Growth rate: 34.3%
Area of operations: Camden, Islington Supported by 8 major donors
A community network mobilising young professionals to volunteer to support their older neighbours with a little extra time, practical help, social connection and human companionship in the London ... more
Spending: £2,247,741
Growth rate: 19.0%
Area of operations: Kenya, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea, Camden, Harrow, Islington, Tower Hamlets Supported by 9 major donors
The principal activities of the charity in 2018 related to Spear, a six week programme equipping unemployed 16-24 year olds to enter employment or progress into further training and education, Resurgo ... more
Spending: £452,950
Growth rate: 104.4%
Area of operations: Lambeth, Southwark Supported by 3 major donors:
A community network mobilising young professionals to volunteer to support their older neighbours with a little extra time, practical help, social connection and human companionship in the London ... more
Spending: £748,631
Growth rate: 25.3%
Area of operations: Birmingham City, Dudley, Sandwell, Worcestershire Supported by 10 major donors
Sport 4 Life UK believes in a level playing field where every young person has the opportunity to create a better future for themselves. We are proud to provide the opportunity for young people aged ... more
Spending: £1,258,298
Growth rate: 14.7%
Area of operations: National Supported by 2 major donors:
Surfers Against Sewage is a national marine conservation and campaigning charity that inspires, unites and empowers communities to take action to protect oceans, beaches, waves and wildlife.
Spending: £229,149
Growth rate: 153.2%
Area of operations: Leeds City Supported by 4 major donors
The charity is involved in relieving the needs of former prisoners by working with them and employers to find suitable employment opportunities as a means of rehabilitation and thereby reducing ... more
Spending: £1,748,562
Growth rate: 37.0%
Area of operations: London Supported by 4 major donors
We help motivated students from disadvantaged backgrounds win places at top universities.
Spending: £159,921
Area of operations: London Supported by 5 major donors
Offering face-to-face support for people who feel that life is no longer worth living.
Spending: £668,534
Growth rate: 16.4%
Area of operations: National Supported by 6 major donors
To promote the physical and personal development of young disabled people, through organising school sports competitions and by the provision of resources including coaching, training, equipment and ... more
Spending: £709,494
Growth rate: 40.2%
Area of operations: National
upReach supports undergraduates from less-privileged backgrounds to secure graduate jobs and internships by running a needs-focused professional development programme in partnership with foundations, ... more
Spending: £1,072,328
Growth rate: 52.2%
Area of operations: Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea Supported by 8 major donors
The charity aims to promote the care and upbringing of every child and every young person with a disadvantaged background who lives in or has a close connection to the West London Zone, by supporting ... more
