Higher education ED103¶
Higher education is a tag in the UK-CAT classification of charities in the UK. It is part of the Education category.
2,265 charities have been tagged with this tag. This represents 1.11% 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(higher education|universit(ies|y)|graduate school|business school)\b
Charities matching this regular expression will be excluded from the tag:
U\.?3\.?A|third age
Distribution by size of charity¶
| Income band | Charities with tag | Percent of all charities |
|---|---|---|
| Under £10k | 695 | 0.98% |
| £10k - £100k | 578 | 0.82% |
| £100k - £250k | 205 | 0.92% |
| £250k - £500k | 115 | 1.05% |
| £500k - £1m | 114 | 1.66% |
| £1m - £10m | 284 | 3.12% |
| Over £10m | 150 | 6.72% |
| Total | 2,141 | 1.11% |
Distribution by charity regulator¶
| Regulator | Charities with tag | Percent of all charities |
|---|---|---|
| ccew | 1,838 | 1.07% |
| oscr | 339 | 1.37% |
| ccni | 88 | 1.22% |
| Total | 2,265 | 1.11% |
Ten largest charities (by income)¶
| Name | Latest income |
|---|---|
| University Of Edinburgh [Charity number: SC005336] The advancement of education. Any other purpose that may reasonably be regarded as analogous to any of the other preceding purposes. |
£1,462,800,000 |
| University Of Glasgow Court [Charity number: SC004401] The advancement of education. The advancement of health. The advancement of, arts, heritage, culture, or science. |
£986,400,000 |
| CARDIFF UNIVERSITY [Charity number: 1136855] The University provides Higher Education to the general public which will also include numerous research activities. For more detail see the Public Benefit Statement within the Annual Financial Statements. |
£646,938,858 |
| The Open University [Charity number: SC038302] The objects of the University shall be the advancement and dissemination of learning and knowledge by teaching and research by a diversity of means such as broadcasting and technological devices appropriate to higher education, by correspondence tuition, residential courses and seminars and in other relevant ways, and shall be to provide education of University and professional standards for its students and to promote the educational well-being of the community generally. |
£578,500,000 |
| The Queen's University of Belfast [Charity number: NI101788] The University provides teaching and research in both a local, a national and international context. It is an autonomous body, established under the Irish Universities Act 1908 and bound by the provisions of its Charter and Statutes. |
£472,337,000 |
| University Of Strathclyde [Charity number: SC015263] The advancement of education. The advancement of arts, heritage, culture, or science. |
£438,816,000 |
| SWANSEA UNIVERSITY [Charity number: 1138342] The University advances learning and knowledge by teaching and research, and engages in activities to promote and contribute to cultural, social and economic development within Wales and beyond. |
£381,610,000 |
| OASIS CHARITABLE TRUST [Charity number: 1026487] Oasis Charitable Trust is a family of organisations running community Hubs providing holistic support to the communities we serve. Our work includes our Academies programme, youthwork, Chaplaincy services & churches, anti human traffiking campaigning through STOP THE TRAFFIK, Higher Education courses through Oasis College and supported housing through Oasis Aquila Housing. |
£335,019,000 |
| University Of Dundee [Charity number: SC015096] To provide instruction in such branches of learning as the (A) University may think fit, whether for members of the University or for others, and to make provision for research and for the advancement and dissemination of knowledge in such a manner as the University may determine. (B) To prescribe in the Ordinances of the University the conditions under which any person may be admitted as a student of the University or to any particular course of study provided by the University. (C) To grant, under conditions laid down in the Statutes or Ordinances, a degree, diploma, certificate or other academic award to any person who shall have pursued a course of study approved by the University and shall have passed the examinations or other tests prescribed by the University. The advancement of education. |
£332,717,000 |
| University Of St Andrews [Charity number: SC013532] The advancement of education. The advancement of arts, heritage, culture or science |
£328,685,000 |
Ten random charities¶
| Name | Latest income |
|---|---|
| FUTURE OF HUMANITY FOUNDATION [Charity number: 1192484] The charity is a multidisciplinary educational charity with a focus on educational subjects and topicsthat ensure that humanity is able to survive and flourish in the future. It exists in part to support thecharitable work of the Future of Humanity Institute at the University of Oxford but also supports othereligible projects which advance education. |
£270,351 |
| RALPH BATES PANCREATIC CANCER RESEARCH FUND [Charity number: 1007819] To promote, carry out or participate in research into pancreatic cancer and associated diseases by way of grant, loans, remuneration etc to hospitals, universities, colleges and similar bodies engaged in research. To provide relief and comfort to pancreatic cancer sufferers. |
£30,945 |
| SANDWELL AND WEST BIRMINGHAM HEALTHCARE AND HOSPITALS CHARITY [Charity number: 1207583] We are the registered charity of Sandwell & West Birmingham NHS Trust, incorporating not only our hospital sites at City, Rowley Regis, Sandwell and Midland Metropolitan University Hospital, but also over 150 community healthcare services including GPs and our partners. |
£1,137,000 |
| ST GEORGE'S HOSPITAL CHARITY [Charity number: 1171195] St George's Hospital Charity was formerly registered under the same name but with charity registration number 241527.The purpose of St George's Hospital Charity is to support St George's University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust in its delivery of care to patients at St George's and Queen Mary's Hospital and in the wider Merton and Wandsworth communities. |
£3,011,000 |
| LOVE BURUNDI [Charity number: 1188803] Love Burundi seeks to advance the education of undergraduate and post-graduate students at Bujumbura Christian University (BCU) by providing grants to assist them with their education and by providing grants to assist BCU with the provision of appropriate training courses and conferences and more generally to advance the education of students in Burundi, |
£30,576 |
| The Rawdon Schools Trust: The John Emmott and Francis Layton Endowments [Charity number: 529197] The Charity invites applications for grants from young persons under 21 years of age. Applicants must be in full-time education at school, college or university and resident in Rawdon. |
£2,113 |
| May Wong Smith Trust [Charity number: SC008666] The Trust Fund and the revenue thereof shall be used for the primary purposes of promoting and establishing and maintaining St.Leonard's College as part of the University of St.Andrews, but may also be used for the purpose of providing Fellowships and Scholarships to students within the University of St.Andrews, both graduate and undergraduate and for providing prizes to such students attaining distinction or merit of any kind, for assisting such students financially where the May Wong Smith Trustees consider there is need, generally for looking after the welfare of such students and assisting them when they consider it desirable to do so. |
£27,283 |
| WILLIAM LISHMAN AND ALICE SARAH LISHMAN EXHIBITIONS [Charity number: 527200] The award of funding to assist pupils to attend schools, universities and other institutions or classes for the purposes of education. |
£296 |
| UT FOUNDATION UK LIMITED [Charity number: 1196155] The charity promotes the advancement of learning and education in particular (but without limitation) at the University of Texas in Austin. |
£1,580,685 |
| THE T D LEWIS SCHOLARSHIP [Charity number: 296109] The provision of scholarships to students of the University of Northampton |
£5,676 |
