Charity Sector

Small Infrastructure Charity Crisis - Vital but Slowly Closing

Small Infrastructure Charity Crisis - Vital but Slowly Closing We carried out a range of literature reviews and surveys over a period of 6 months and this will be used to drive the design of our planned upgrade in our services to better meet the needs of charities and other non profits. We think what […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

#SmallsForSmalls Free Small Charity Training Webinars - 22 to 29 June 2026

#SmallsForSmalls Free Small Charity Training Webinars Our #SmallsForSmalls free charity training webinars and face-to-face sessions will run 22 to 29 June but aren't part of the formal Small Charity Week programme. They are an unfunded, ad hoc series of informative and fun fringe events organised by the smalls themselves, with support from their friends, to […]

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. […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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