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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Established: 03/06/2014
Spending: £180,623
3Y Growth rate: 118.3% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported by 4 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
Established: 09/05/2012
Spending: £811,801
5Y Growth rate: 55.2% pa
3Y Growth rate: 36.8% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported by 4 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
Established: 12/07/2007
Spending: £1,051,911
5Y Growth rate: 4.5% pa
3Y Growth rate: -3.4% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported by 6 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
Established: 21/09/2007
Spending: £435,514
5Y Growth rate: 26.4% pa
3Y Growth rate: 32.3% pa
Area of operations: Throughout London, Surrey, Peterborough CitySupported by 8 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
Established: 07/08/2015
Spending: £760,712
3Y Growth rate: 37.9% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported by 5 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
Established: 04/11/2002
Spending: £1,149,482
5Y Growth rate: -1.2% pa
3Y Growth rate: -4.3% pa
Area of operations: India, Kenya, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, EswatiniSupported by 2 major donors: The Dulverton Trust, The EQ Foundation
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
Established: 30/07/2013
Spending: £425,797
3Y Growth rate: 33.0% pa
Area of operations: Camden, IslingtonSupported 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
Established: 25/11/2003
Spending: £2,247,741
5Y Growth rate: 19.0% pa
3Y Growth rate: 11.5% pa
Area of operations: Kenya, Lambeth, Wandsworth, Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And Chelsea, Camden, Harrow, Islington, Tower HamletsSupported by 10 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
Established: 10/06/2014
Spending: £452,950
3Y Growth rate: 49.2% pa
Area of operations: Lambeth, SouthwarkSupported by 4 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
Established: 11/07/2006
Spending: £690,199
5Y Growth rate: 18.8% pa
3Y Growth rate: 8.6% pa
Area of operations: Birmingham City, Dudley, Sandwell, WorcestershireSupported 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
Established: 13/02/2012
Spending: £1,258,298
5Y Growth rate: 14.7% pa
3Y Growth rate: 11.3% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported by 3 major donors: Esmée Fairbairn Foundation, Garfield Weston Foundation, The EQ Foundation
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.
Established: 16/05/2014
Spending: £229,149
3Y Growth rate: 139.8% pa
Area of operations: Leeds CitySupported by 5 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
Established: 21/07/2011
Spending: £1,748,562
5Y Growth rate: 37.0% pa
3Y Growth rate: 32.1% pa
Area of operations: LondonSupported by 4 major donors?
We help motivated students from disadvantaged backgrounds win places at top universities.
Established: 07/12/2015
Spending: £274,290
Area of operations: LondonSupported by 5 major donors?
Offering face-to-face support for people who feel that life is no longer worth living.
Established: 30/11/1998
Spending: £668,534
5Y Growth rate: 16.4% pa
3Y Growth rate: 11.8% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported 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
Established: 17/10/2014
Spending: £709,494
3Y Growth rate: 40.2% pa
Area of operations: NationalSupported by 1 major donor: The EQ Foundation
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
Established: 17/03/2015
Spending: £2,384,190
3Y Growth rate: 71.7% pa
Area of operations: Hammersmith And Fulham, Kensington And ChelseaSupported 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
The United Nations Sustainable Development Goals
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), also known as the Global Goals, were adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015 are a universal call to action to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure that all people enjoy peace and prosperity by 2030. We have allocated these SDGs to selected charities to provide a better idea of what they stand for and enables comparison between similar missions. A charity may have several goals.