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.
2,109 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 1.04% 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 | 882 | 1.24% |
| £10k - £100k | 770 | 1.10% |
| £100k - £250k | 181 | 0.82% |
| £250k - £500k | 79 | 0.73% |
| £1m - £10m | 62 | 0.69% |
| £500k - £1m | 40 | 0.60% |
| Over £10m | 19 | 0.87% |
| Total | 2,033 | 1.06% |
Distribution by charity regulator¶
| Regulator | Charities with tag | Percent of all charities |
|---|---|---|
| ccew | 1,750 | 1.02% |
| oscr | 291 | 1.18% |
| ccni | 68 | 0.95% |
| Total | 2,109 | 1.04% |
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 |
£275,575,689 |
| 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. |
£90,246,297 |
| 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. |
£60,980,930 |
| 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. |
£49,459,000 |
| 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. |
£39,148,000 |
| 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. |
£29,819,493 |
| 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. |
£29,761,000 |
| 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. |
£26,972,000 |
| ONE NATION [Charity number: 1156200] ONE NATION IS AN INTERNATIONAL NON-PROFIT HUMANITARIAN AID RELIEF ORGANISATION DEDICATED TO PROVIDING HUMANITARIAN SERVICES IN CRISIS AND NON-CRISIS SITUATIONS TO MOST NEEDY ORPHANS, WIDOWS AND DESTITUTE, IRRESPECTIVE OF RACE, RELIGION, CULTURE, CREED AND GEOGRAPHICAL BOUNDARY. |
£26,308,902 |
| ORPHANS IN NEED [Charity number: 1144812] The relief of poverty and sickness anywhere in the world, and in particular, those affected by natural causes or by wars and conflicts either foreign or domestic To advance the education of persons in need, including orphans, anywhere in the world by the provision of financial aid and materials |
£23,461,218 |
Ten random charities¶
| Name | Latest income |
|---|---|
| OXFORDSHIRE WILDLIFE RESCUE [Charity number: 1194050] Rescue, Rehabilitate and Release any sick, injured or orphaned British Wildlife |
£249,954 |
| GLOBAL WORD CHARITY [Charity number: 1189105] To preserve and protect the physical and mental health of single parents and widows / widowers who may Children/young People, walking , Chatting platform/ Centre /Cooking and eat healthy, Gym The General Public/mankind professional, depression and mental health issues need health care givers. Youth , Recovering home,Homework, Online chatting , Weekly bible study / Stopping Knife Crime ect |
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| THE RETIRED MINISTERS' AND WIDOWS' FUND [Charity number: 233835] To assist necessitious persons who are: (1) Retired ministers or (2) Widows or widowers of ministers or retired ministers of unitarian free churches, congregational, presbyterian, united reform and of the baptist denominations in England and Wales. Grants paid can be either annual and/or one-off grants. They are at the discretion of the trustees following consideration of written applications. |
£46,420 |
| ROYAL ANTEDILUVIAN ORDER OF BUFFALOES G L E EAST COTSWOLD PROVINCIAL GRAND LODGE BENEVOLENT FUND [Charity number: 253022] Helping widows and orphans of the organisation with benevolence to help with their needs and requirements. |
£298 |
| DURRANI TRUST [Charity number: 1187043] Distribute staple food items to widows, disabled and poor people in Quetta, Pakistan |
£9,800 |
| BOLINGBROKE CHARITIES [Charity number: 230615] Annual distribution of monies to local widows in village of Old Bolingbroke. |
£131 |
| THE MOSS COTTAGE HOMES [Charity number: 238596] It manages six residences originally set up for widows of Ashwell, which now accommodates persons who are normally over the age of 60, with strong local connections and who are able to live independently. |
£81,442 |
| THE HEARTWARMERS FOUNDATION [Charity number: 1194459] We support projects implemented in rural areas of Malawi which improve the lives in particular but not exclusively, of the elderly, widows, orphans and vulnerable children. |
£39,139 |
| INTERNATIONAL ACTION FOR IRAQI REFUGEES [Charity number: 1123863] 1. WE AIM TO FIND SPONSORS FOR ORPHANS, FAMILIES (WITHIN IRAQ, JORDAN AND SYRIA). ALSO, WE SUPPORT IRAQI STUDENTS IN EGYPT. 2. GIVE GRANTS TO HELP THE NEEDY FAMILIES IN IRAQ' SYRIA AND JORDAN. 3. PROVIDE MEDICATION FOR THE NEEDY IRAQIS. WE ORGANIZE FUNDRAISING SOCIAL ACTIVITIES IN THE UK.. 4. PROVIDE GRANTS TO SUPPORT CHARITABLE ORGANIZATIONS (WHO SUPPORT DISPLACED IRAQI FAMILIES) IN JORDAN. |
£100 |
| Faith in Action Missions, Newtownards [Charity number: NI100261] Our aim is to advance Christianity, the relief of poverty, the preservation of health, advance education, help to decrease criminal behaviour. We help Orphans, School Children, Prisoners, Alcoholics, Drug addicts, cancer sufferers, MS sufferers, sick people, Homeless people, young and Elderly people, and many more people that otherwise would receive no help at all. We build new church buildings, and new extensions, trying to give the people places of worship, we have just finished building a new church building on the Ukrainian Russian border, before the people were crammed into a small house, now they have a new building that holds 250 people. We are building a new church extension in the City of Kharkov, this is the only church in an area that holds 70,000 people. We are building an extension to benefit the elderly and the sick, these people live out in the country, and have no one to care for them, so they will be brought into the home and looked after We help the people by buying minibuses for the churches, the church can then to go to where the people are, most of our work with the sick and elderly is out in the country, so transport is very badly needed, this means that the sick can be taken to the doctor, or hospital when the need arises. We also benefit the people through sending containers of humanitarian aid to them, for the hospitals, we send hospital equipment, beds, mattresses, ultra sound equipment, incubators, etc. For the orphans we send new clothes and new shoes, plus school equipment. For the prisoners we send furniture for the new buildings that we have helped to build, plus financial help. We also help in the drug & alcohol rehab, by providing finances, furniture, clothing, and much more. In the schools, we provide finances, humanitarian aid, furniture, we also help to advance their English language skills. In all of our areas of work, we help by sending containers of aid to relief the poverty, we also evangelise in all of those areas. |
£157,087 |
