There were six new entrants in the list of the UK’s top 100 charities, published today, including the English Heritage Trust, the charity which administers historic sites including Stonehenge.
The haysmacintyre / Charity Finance Charity 100 Index is produced by Civil Society News in partnership with Charity Finance magazine. It ranks the UK’s biggest charities by their average total income over the last three years. Its membership is reviewed annually and certain exclusions apply.
The top ten charities are unchanged, with the list headed by Nuffield Health, followed by Cancer Research UK, the National Trust, the Charities Aid Foundation, and Oxfam.
English Heritage Trust
The English Heritage Trust, which looks after historic sites such as Stonehenge and Hadrian’s Wall, enters the index in 99th place, based on an average three-year annual income of £59.4m.
It was newly formed in April 2015 when government split English Heritage, a non-departmental public body, into Historic England, a quango which owns and has statutory responsibility for protecting more than 400 historic properties, and the English Heritage Trust, a charity responsible for managing their day-to day operations.
Lloyd's Register Foundation
One other newly formed charity enters the top 100 – the Lloyd’s Register Foundation. Lloyd’s Register was formerly an industrial and provident society, which converted into a company owned by a charity. The foundation is listed on the Charity Commission register as the largest in the UK, but this is an accounting quirk, driven by the fact that the company’s whole income is consolidated into its accounts.
The index includes only the foundation’s charitable income. As the foundation received a large one-off payment as a result of its formation, it is likely to drop out of the top 100 next year.
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International Medical Corps UK
The other new entrants to the Charity 100 this year all move up from the Charity 250 Index, an index of the next largest charities in the UK. They are the International Medical Corps UK, Plan International UK, the Gatsby Charitable Foundation and Alternative Futures.
The International Medical Corps UK is the biggest riser, up 31 places to 84th in the index. It has almost doubled its income in the last three years from £50.6m to £98.3m.
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