Below is my latest directory of taxpayer-funded charities.
Total taxpayer spending (across the last five published tax years) for the charities below is £2,638,356,519 aka:
£2.6 BILLION!
Last updated: Monday 12th October
Notes:
I have listed 92 charities below (bearing in mind the Charity Commission for England and Wales lists over 170k charities at the time of writing. NB. Not all are taxpayer funded).
I will be adding to this list as and when.
I have found several examples of charities incorrectly counting National Lottery funding as government income. Please bear this in mind in my analysis. Though I would ideally like to separate purely taxpayer-funded and National Lottery/ Comic Relief/ Children in Need funded grants, I am constrained by time.
I have made a separate list of asylum and migration charities (drawing on my findings below)
Top 10 biggest recipients
British Council — £1,164,670,000 (2021-25)
British Red Cross Society — £385,160,000 (2021-25)
