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.

2,145 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 1.06% 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	894	1.18%
£10k - £100k	765	1.12%
£100k - £250k	168	0.81%
£250k - £500k	85	0.86%
£1m - £10m	55	0.65%
£500k - £1m	45	0.73%
Over £10m	17	0.83%
Total	2,029	1.06%

Distribution by charity regulator

Regulator	Charities with tag	Percent of all charities
ccew	1,774	1.04%
oscr	301	1.21%
ccni	70	0.97%
Total	2,145	1.06%

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	£234,179,120
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.	£43,044,070
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.	£37,952,000
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.	£37,729,000
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.	£36,921,000
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.	£31,275,010
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.	£26,406,889
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.	£24,948,000
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.	£23,853,000
PENNY APPEAL [Charity number: 1128341] Penny Appeal provides poverty relief across Asia, the Middle East and Africa, with dedicated programmes to help the poor and needy by building wells, caring for orphans, providing nutritious food, delivering emergency aid in response to crisis situations and providing healthcare. Penny Appeal also works in the UK to help homeless people and women who have experienced domestic abuse.	£23,086,238

Ten random charities

Name	Latest income
Royal Air Forces Association Edinburgh, Lothian & Borders Branch [Charity number: SC009110] 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 Our Air Forces, their spouses and dependants, together with the widows and widowers and dependants of those who died whilst serving or subsequently.	£11,493
KAJOKEJI EDUCATIONAL TRUST AFRICA [Charity number: 1137761] Provision of uji programmes in two schools, to about 1000 children each day; school building programmes to date comprising four new primary schools and the enlargement of a secondary school; installation of deep water bore-holes in so far three villages; provision of additional teachers and teacher training; sponsorship of orphan children and others unable otherwise to afford to go to school.	£28,358
THE OAK AND FURROWS WILDLIFE RESCUE CENTRE [Charity number: 1177380] To care for all injured and orphaned wildlife in Gloucestershire band North Wiltshire. Education of the public to the needs of wildlife and visits with talks to schools and clubs in our area	£98,600
Al Masjid SCIO [Charity number: SC052744] The organisations purposes are: 4.1 To serve the cause of Islam, practically by creating facilities and platforms for the observance of its principles, such as establishing or supporting Muslim places of worship and establishing learning facilities online and in-house, especially but not exclusively for the benefit of the Muslim community in the UK, with a particular focus on Scotland. 4.2 To provide welfare and recreational facilities and platforms for the poor and orphaned with the object of improving the mental and physical health of the above Muslim community, 4.3 To advance education and in particular Islamic ethical education for the benefit, of particularly and not exclusively, the above Muslim community, 4.4 To relieve the poverty of the above Muslim community, by providing career guidance and welfare advice in Muslim places of worship, creating awareness on social mobility in deprived areas and amongst most marginalized in our society like the refugees, migrants, and Muslim women, especially the single mothers, and promoting awareness on budgeting and ethical financial conduct amongst Muslim youth, and other similar practices. 4.5 To promote good race relations within the wider community, through promoting ethical conduct and building bridges, such as community get-togethers, educational workshops and promoting social, educational, and political engagement in areas that are most ethnically diverse. 4.6 To do such other things pursuant to the above as are charitable in law.
THE AFOBE FOUNDATION [Charity number: 1168714] The Afobe Foundation primarily operates to support disadvantaged and vulnerable young people including orphans and disabled children in DR Congo and the UK.	£24,961
THE EGGINTON CHARITES [Charity number: 216377] Care of the needy in Egginton - mainly elderly widowed people.	£1,013
JAMEA HUSSAINIA IDRISIA MADRASA TRUST [Charity number: 1132274] providing boarding and food, for poor children and orphans in our educational institute. staff are actively providing help to the children of the organization.	£9,100
GREENWICH CHARITY OF WILLIAM HATCLIFFE AND THE MISSES SMITH [Charity number: 227721] Provision of almshouse accommodation for thirteen persons over the age of 55, with a preference for widows and single women, living in the "area of benefit" i.e. the south side of the River Thames up to a radius of 5 miles from the almshouses. Provision of grants to enable elderly people, living in the charity's area of benefit, to remain in their own homes.	£553,007
MRS JANE CART'S TRUST [Charity number: 200166] Supporting clergy, clergy widows and widowers and their dependants	£184,581
COASTLANDS CHURCH [Charity number: 1111991] The Church continues to fulfill its objectives of feeding the hungry, helping widows, orphans, and single parents in need.Full programme of mid week and Sunday meetings include Christain Worship, teaching and fellowship. Activities and teaching engagements outside Worthing and Bognor are encouraged.The church donates funds to local community projects also childrens welfare projects overseas	£131,181