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.

2,083 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 1.02% 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	865	1.21%
£10k - £100k	779	1.11%
£100k - £250k	171	0.76%
£250k - £500k	84	0.76%
£1m - £10m	54	0.59%
£500k - £1m	43	0.62%
Over £10m	21	0.93%
Total	2,017	1.04%

Distribution by charity regulator

Regulator	Charities with tag	Percent of all charities
ccew	1,733	1.01%
oscr	284	1.14%
ccni	66	0.94%
Total	2,083	1.02%

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.	£74,790,071
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
Ahmadiyya Muslim Association United Kingdom [Charity number: SC053467] The objects for which the Charity is established are: To advance the Ahmadiyya Muslim faith of Islam as expounded by Mirza Ghulam Ahmad of Qadian, the founder of the Ahmadiyya Muslim community, and the Khalifatul Masih in any or all parts of the world for the benefit of the public, through and not restricted to the provision of places of worship, or for community gatherings, producing and/or distributing literature on the Ahmadiyya Islamic faith and any other such means as the Trustees think fit. The advancement of education among the members of the Charity and such other persons as the Trustees may from time to time determine. The relief of those in need (including, but not limited to, widows and orphans) by reason of youth, age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or poverty. To advance any purposes recognised as charitable under the laws of England and Wales as the Trustees in their absolute discretion think fit.	£41,458,871
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.	£41,326,000
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
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.	£29,598,000
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.	£27,769,000
National Grocers Benevolent Fund [Charity number: SC039255] The objects of the Company are:- (a) The relief of necessitous persons, who are or have been engaged in the grocery or provision trade, greengrocers and the off-licence trade, in any capacity, and for the relief of necessitous widows, widowers and their dependent children. (b) To undertake any other charitable purpose.	£27,306,507

Ten random charities

Name	Latest income
The Orphan Shop SCIO [Charity number: SC047439] The organisation is established for charitable purposes only, and in particular, the objects are: 1. the relief of those in need by reason of age, ill-health, disability, financial hardship or other disadvantage.	£85,566
CHILDAID TO EASTERN EUROPE [Charity number: 281099] ChildAid transforms lives of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people in Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine. Short and long-term aid and development initiatives, in collaboration with local partners, improve life quality for the abused, abandoned and neglected from extremely poor families, orphans and disabled children. Our motivation is Christian but help is unconditional	£592,309
IN-COMMUNITY CARE FOR ORPHANS [Charity number: 1086577] I-CCO UK works with a team in Zambia to identify children and families living in poverty who have been affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic, and who are most in need of support. We provide these families with essential food items, clothes and healthcare, and pay for school fees, books and uniforms for the children. This is financed by fundraising, general donations and a child sponsorship programme.	£15,126
IUS OUTREACH [Charity number: 1211001] THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE (1) TO ADVANCE THE RELIGION OF ISLAM BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, THE PROVISION OF FACILITIES FOR ISLAMIC EDUCATION, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF THE QURAN AND THE TEACHINGS OF PROPHET MUHAMMAD (PBUH) AS INTERPRETED AND ACCEPTED BY THE AHLE SUNNAH WAL-JAMAA-AH SCHOOL OF THOUGHT; (2) THE PREVENTION OR RELIEF OF POVERTY OR FINANCIAL HARDSHIP AMONG VICTIMS OF NATURAL DISASTERS, REFUGEES, ORPHANS AND THE POOR, BY MEANS OF, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, MAKING GRANTS FOR ITEMS, EQUIPMENT, SERVICES AND FACILITIES, INCLUDING THE PROVISION OF FOOD AND OTHER BASIC NECESSITIES FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE SAID PERSONS.
CARE-LINK UK TRUST [Charity number: 1061560] TRUST ACTIVITIES. BRIEFLY, WE PROVIDE SERVICES FOR POOR, ESPECIALLY IN PAKISTAN & UK, AS UNDER: (A) FUNDS FOR FOOD, MARRIAGES, SICKNESS & BEREAVEMENT (PAKISTAN), (B) FUNDS TO CHARITABLE HOSPITALS (PAK), (C) MATRIMONIAL INTRODUCTION & FAMILY CONSELLING(UK), (D) FUNDS TO CHARITY-RUN SCHOOLS/COLLEGES, AND SPONSOR ORPHANS (PAK), (E) GUIDANCE/SUPPORT FOR RE-SETTLEMENT OF EX-OFFENDERS (UK).	£90,930
ROYAL ENGINEERS ASSOCIATION [Charity number: 258322] To provide financial and other assistance to serving and former members of the Corps, their spouses, widows, widowers and dependants who are in need through poverty. To make grants, within Association Guidelines, to the Army Benevolent Fund and to other charities that further the objectives of the Association.	£1,437,036
STREAMS OF MERCY [Charity number: 287915] To provide a ministry team to lead Christian services in Prisons, Churches and Christian Fellowships, Hospitals and homes abroad. To provide material aid to widows,orphans, prisoners and other underprivileged people abroad.	£19,493
BOLTON HORN OF AFRICA CENTRE [Charity number: 1136507] Providing educational facilities for young people.Poverty Alleviation for Poor Communities of African Heritage both within the United Kingdom and Horn of Africa.Basic Needs Provision Such as Food, Shelter, Education, Medical Care & Clothing, for all Poor Individuals, Families & Orphans.	£256,020
DOLAPO AWOSIKA OUTREACH [Charity number: 1196578] Our activities are: Preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ through physical gathering in United Kingdom and across all social media platform such as Instagram, YouTube and so on for Soul winning and Christians growth.Provide humanitarian services by visiting hospitals, payment of tuition fees for less privileges, distribution of food, money, toiletries, Clothing, to widows, destitute and Orphans.
PORTHLEVEN HARBOUR HEDGIES RESCUE [Charity number: 1204006] Further the conservation and preservation of hedgehogs in Cornwall and the South-West. Help sick, injured or orphaned hedgehogs by providing rescue, care and rehabilitation services with the aim of releasing such hedgehogs back into the wild wherever possible. Advance the education of the public by raising awareness with regards to hedgehog habitats and the care and conservation of hedgehogs.	£27,852