Widows; widowers and orphans BE112¶
Widows; widowers and orphans is a tag in the UK-CAT classification of charities in the UK. It is part of the Beneficiary group category.
2,164 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 1.07% of all charities.
Keywords to find charities¶
UK-CAT categories are applied to charities based on a set of keywords, in the form of a regular expression.
The regular expression used to find charities in this tag is:
\b(widow(s|ed)?|widowers?|orphan(s|ed)?)\b
Distribution by size of charity¶
| Income band | Charities with tag | Percent of all charities |
|---|---|---|
| Under £10k | 931 | 1.12% |
| £10k - £100k | 761 | 1.17% |
| £100k - £250k | 159 | 0.82% |
| £250k - £500k | 90 | 0.99% |
| £1m - £10m | 54 | 0.68% |
| £500k - £1m | 36 | 0.62% |
| Over £10m | 18 | 0.97% |
| Total | 2,049 | 1.07% |
Distribution by charity regulator¶
| Regulator | Charities with tag | Percent of all charities |
|---|---|---|
| ccew | 1,787 | 1.06% |
| oscr | 308 | 1.21% |
| ccni | 69 | 0.97% |
| Total | 2,164 | 1.07% |
Ten largest charities (by income)¶
| Name | Latest income |
|---|---|
| ISLAMIC RELIEF WORLDWIDE [Charity number: 328158] 1. Responding to emergencies2. Caring for orphans and children in need3. Supporting education4. Providing access to health care and water5. Promoting sustainable livelihood6. Campaigning and advocacy on humanitrian issues |
£182,941,236 |
| HUMAN APPEAL [Charity number: 1154288] Human Appeal changed its legal structure from a Trust to a Charitable Company (No:1154288). The historical information is available on Charity Commission under (previous Charity Number: 1005733) We aim to provide a holistic approach to humanitarian relief and development:1. Emergency & relief programmes2. Sustainable development3. Orphans programmes4. Social programmes. |
£35,518,275 |
| Mary's Meals International Organisation [Charity number: SC045223] (a) To provide a daily meal, in a place of education, for children in the world's poorest communities. (b) To provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian, crises or poverty, to help people escape poverty and to provide care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children and to work for the prevention thereof. (c) To raise awareness worldwide of poverty issues through education and. (d) To assist and support the work of other organisations, financially or otherwise, in particular members of the Mary's Meals network throughout the world, the objects of which would be considered to be Charitable Purposes and similar in nature to these objects. |
£33,722,000 |
| THE ROYAL MEDICAL FOUNDATION OF EPSOM COLLEGE [Charity number: 312046] (1) To provide pensions for registered medical practitioners of the UK and their widows or widowers in reduced circumstances. (2) To provide generally for the advancement of education by the provision of a school. (3) To provide occasional financial assistance for registered medical practitioners of the UK and their widows or widowers and children in reduced circumstances. |
£29,266,000 |
| Blind Veterans UK [Charity number: SC039411] 3.1 To provide for the medical or surgical treatment, re-education, training in one or more trade or trades, settlement and permanent welfare of.- 3.1.1 Members or former members of the armed forces both men and women blinded from whatever cause whether or not connected in any way with service in the armed forces. 3.1.2 Other persons both men and women not being members or, former members of the armed forces blinded in or as a consequence of any war or warlike operations in which the forces of the Crown may be at any time engaged or any service connected with or subsidiary to such war or warlike operations or by or as a consequence of enemy action in the course of any such war or warlike operations (all such persons being hereinafter referred to as 'Beneficiaries') and so that for the purposes of this memorandum the word 'blinded' shall extend to all cases in which the sight has been so impaired that special care and training are required and all cases in which the sight is endangered so long as the cause of the danger continues. 3.2 To provide allowances or other assistance for any wife widow husband widower child or dependant of a Beneficiary who may be in need of assistance or any person who shall have kept house for or nursed or otherwise rendered exceptional service to or have been dependent upon a Beneficiary and may after the death of such Beneficiary be in need of assistance. |
£28,827,000 |
| Al-Khair Foundation [Charity number: SC042234] 3.1.1 The advancement of general and religious education including but not restricted to the study, promotion and support of: (i) primary, secondary, college and university education. (ii) knowledge and understanding of Muslims and the beliefs, teachings and practices of Islam and of any other useful knowledge. (iii) good parenting skills and the protection of women, children and young people. (iv) comparative religion and interfaith dialogue with the aim of securing mutual understanding, tolerance, harmony and peace between Muslims and those who hold different or similar beliefs and follow different or similar ways of life. (vi) art and culture. (vii) enhancing, improving and strengthening local communities by means of promoting community cohesion in particular and supporting community regeneration in general. (viii) the deterrence and prevention of any form of discrimination including but not restricted to racial, religious, disability and gender discrimination. (ix) the prevention of alcohol and drugs abuse and misuse. (x) the prevention of gambling and debt. (xi) the prevention of crime including any form of terrorism. (xii) the promotion of Islamic Shari'a compliant finance. (xiii) the observance and maintenance of human rights in accordance with the rule of law. 3.1.2 The relief of poverty, sickness, distress and suffering of any persons who are in need including orphans, refugees , disabled and displaced people irrespective of their nationality, race, ethnic origin and religious beliefs including but not restricted to the relief of those who are the victims of : (i) natural disasters including droughts, earthquakes, epidemics, fires, hurricane and goods. (ii) man-made disasters including industrial accidents, social conflict and wars. (iii) racial, religious, disability or gender discrimination. (iv) alcohol and drugs abuse and misuse. (v) gambling and debt. (vi) economic and social deprivation. (vii) crime including any form of terrorism. |
£27,676,245 |
| The Ahmadiyya Muslim Association United Kingdom [Charity number: SC042131] (a) The propagation of Islam as expounded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Movement and the Khalifatul Masih and generally to promote the comparative study of religion in any or all parts of the world. (b) The advancement of education among the members of the Association and such other persons as the Managing Committee of the Association may from time to time determine. (c) The provision, as far as possible, of maintenance of indigent persons, orphans and widows and for such other persons as are unable by reason of some physical or other infirmity or handicap to maintain themselves anywhere in the world. (d) The relief of poverty, need, hardship or distress in any or all parts of the world. |
£26,206,739 |
| The Royal Air Force Benevolent Fund [Charity number: SC038109] (a) the maintenance, upkeep and repair of the War Memorial known as the RAF Memorial situated at the Victoria Embankment, London. and b) The relief and assistance by all available means of all or any of thc following classes of beneficiaries who are in need of such relief or assistance by reason of poverty, disability, sickness, infirmity or otherwise, namely:- all persons of all ranks who are or have or shall have been at any time or shall be at any time members of the Royal Air Force, the Royal I Auxiliary Air Force, the Royal Air Force Reserves, the Women's I Royal Air Force or the Air Force or Auxiliary Air Force of any present or former colony dominion or dependent territory of Great Britain or members of any former organisation the place of which has I substantially been taken by the said organisations or any of them, or I members of any future organisations which hereafter shall substantially take the place of the said organisations or any of them. and (ii) all persons who shall at any time have been or be widows, widowers, children or other dependants of any of the persons above referred to. |
£25,528,000 |
| THE LONDON ORPHAN ASYLUM (REED'S SCHOOL) [Charity number: 312008] To provide education in Cobham for boys from the ages of 11 - 18, and girls in the Sixth Form. The objects of the Foundation, as set down in the Act and Constitution, are to advance the education of boys or girls who have lost one or both parents through death, divorce, or other family disaster, and whose home life, as a result, is unsatisfactory, unhappy or abnormal. |
£20,765,000 |
| Mary's Meals [Charity number: SC022140] The Company's objects are: (i) (a) To provide a daily meal, in a place of education, for children in the world's poorest communities. (b) To provide relief for those suffering, in any part of the world, as a result of humanitarian crises or poverty, to help people escape poverty and to provide care for orphaned, abandoned and vulnerable children. (c) To raise awareness in the UK and worldwide of poverty issues through education |
£18,437,053 |
Ten random charities¶
| Name | Latest income |
|---|---|
| RESIDENCE FOR A NURSE AND OTHER PURPOSES [Charity number: 200237] The Charity is responsible for four small Almshouses in the centre of Toddington. The residents are widows or spinsters of the Parish. The Trustees are responsible for the maintenance and repair of the Almshouses. The Trustees expect to be able to pay for routine repairs and maintenance out of the income. |
£171 |
| LOOK LONE PARENTS & YOUTH ASSOCIATION DUTCHSOM [Charity number: 1111148] Education / Training Sport / recreation WhoChildren / People of a particular ethnic or racial origin Provides human resources Provides services Provides advocacy / advice / information/to provide food,shelter and education for orphan children in Somalia,Water Project,Most needy,Orphan sponcership,Medical project |
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| DARUL-ULUM SURIKANDI QOUMI MADRASAH [Charity number: 1183568] THE TRANSFORMATION AND ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION, RELIEF OF POVERTY AND HELPING ORPHANS, DEPRIVED AND MOST DISADVANTAGEOUS CHILDREN AND PEOPLE IN BARLEKHA, MOULOVI BAZAR, BANGLADESH IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY THE MAKING OF GRANTS. |
£22,779 |
| THE ROYAL AIR FORCES ASSOCIATION BEXHILL-ON-SEA BRANCH [Charity number: 263248] Charity objects: The object for which the Association is established is to promote, through the comradeship engendered by its members, the welfare by charitable means of all serving and former members of Her Majesty's Air Forces, their spouses and dependants, together with the widows and widowers and dependants of those who died whilst serving or subsequently. |
£6,009 |
| William Brown Nimmo Charitable Trust [Charity number: SC001671] for well-doing industrious and deserving women married or single or widows of the poorer classes not otherwise sufficiently provided for. |
£40,487 |
| FRIENDS OF CHERNOBYL'S CHILDREN HERTS & CAMBS [Charity number: 1189806] Raising funds in the areas of Hertfordshire and Cambridgeshire, to relieve the suffering of children affected by the radiation explosion from the Nuclear Plant at Chernobyl. To provide family placements for children/orphans from the Mogilev region of Belarus for at least one month each year for respite care and to meet the full costs of these visits, to include optical, dental and health checks. |
£2,607 |
| AL HABIB EDUCATIONAL & WELFARE TRUST [Charity number: 1169290] education of Islamic studies, and help of orphans and widows |
£82,400 |
| THE LOTUS CHILDREN'S CENTRE CHARITABLE TRUST [Charity number: 1123207] We are dedicated to providing care, accomodation, support and education to abused, abandoned and orphaned children in Mongolia. We raise awareness of the plight of the street children, and help to fund The Lotus Children's Centre (www.lotuschild.org), which looks after more than 70 children. The Centre also provides vocational training for young adults. |
£49,480 |
| THE JANE GOODALL INSTITUTE (UK) [Charity number: 327858] Jane Goodall Institute promotes education & research of wildlife & conservation byScientific research of wild chimpanzees Sanctuaries for wild chimpanzees orphaned or illegally capturedJGI TACARE conserving habitats by helping local people develop means to meet food, health & education needs JGI Roots & Shoots helping young people make a better world for people, animals & the environment |
£594,365 |
| The St Jerome's Centre [Charity number: SC044241] To the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage by providing full time care for the orphaned, abandoned or destitute. This includes the provision of a safe shelter, ample food, clean water, sanitation and access to health care for all in our care. To the advancement of education by providing the access to education for all in our care. |
£44,354 |
Last update:
January 2, 2024
Created: January 2, 2024
Created: January 2, 2024
