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Small Infrastructure Charity Crisis - Vital but Slowly Closing

Small Infrastructure Charity Crisis - Vital but Slowly Closing For our Small Charity Crisis - Vital and Under Threat report charities told us they often couldn't find the support they needed but, if they could, it'd have real impact.  They also told us they want local and functional (not national) support, and they don't want […]
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Small Charity Crisis - Vital And Under Threat

Small Charity Crisis - Vital and Under Threat Despite comprising 95% of the sector and their recognised unique and vital contribution, small charities are increasingly struggling in a worsening funding environment.  Our findings show that this is being made even worse by the fact that they are locked into a system that favours scale over […]
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UK Charity Sector Outlook - Gulf Crisis Update

UK Charity Sector Outlook - Gulf Crisis Update A 2026 outlook assessing how the Gulf crisis may affect UK charities, covering the impact on income, demand for services and costs, based on Charity Excellence’s ongoing sector analysis.  This report was last updated 4 April 2026, with OECD data. Outlined below is a summary of our […]
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Charity Excellence Grant Makers - Hall of Fame 2026

Charity Excellence Grant Makers - Hall of Fame 2026 In our Grant Makers Survey this year, we invited respondents to nominate individuals who go above and beyond in supporting grantees.  Our AI Survey Bunny who did the number crunching said  "Love this – the Hall of Fame is one of the nicest bits of the […]
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#SmallsForSmalls Week - 22 to 26 June 2026

#SmallsForSmalls Week Our #SmallsForSmalls week isn't part of the formal Small Charity Week 2026 programme.  It's an unfunded, ad hoc series of informative and fun fringe events organised by the smalls themselves, with support from their friends, to help and promote the fantastic work of all small charities but anyone and everyone is welcome. We […]
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Charity Trust in an AI Enabled World - Free Toolkit for Charities

Charity Trust in an AI Enabled World - Free Toolkit for Charities In the charity sector, trust has always been critical.  We need people to trust us to feel able to use our services and we need the public and donors to trust us to be willing to provide the funding needed for our services.  […]
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Charity Christmas Gift Ideas, Cards and Presents 2025

Charity Christmas Gift Ideas 2025 - Buy Your Charitable Presents Online We've lots of alternative Christmas gift ideas, cards, and presents from charities for you in our charity run Xmas shop.  Get Christmas ready and feel good by doing good, by buying charitable presents online from 80+ fabulous small charities. Our Small Charity Christmas Market […]
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UK Federated Charities List

UK Federated Charities As part of our work in promoting sister non profits and greater collaboration, which we think is a huge missed opportunity, we've created this list of federated charities.  It's by no means complete, so if you're part of one and not on the list, send me details to ian@charityexcellence.co.uk. Or if you'd […]
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UK Charity List - 180+ Networks and Membership Charities

UK Charity List - 180+ Networks and Membership Charities As part of our work in promoting greater collaboration, we've created this charities list of UK, regional and local charity networks groups, and membership organisations listed under various categories. It was superseded by the Charity Support & Networks search category in Help Finder.  This is much […]
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Charity Sector Cost Of Living Crisis - £1 Billion In Funding Cuts Report

Our initial assessment of the Public Sector cuts to charity funding was first published in Aug 23 and then as a final report in Sep 23. Cuts to public funding for charities are estimated at £1bn pa, we believe that there is a high risk of widespread charity closures and it might be 2025 before we recover to pre-crisis resilience levels, if then. Our report provides recommendations on how that could be prevented. Last update 13 Oct 23.
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How Many Registered Charities Are There In The UK

How many registered charities in the UK? A breakdown of the numbers of UK charities by country, including unregistered charities, social enterprises, and other non profits.
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