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What is a charity? Which of these, for example, is not a charity?

Eton College

Amnesty International UK Section Charitable Trust

The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden

Greenpeace




Charities exist to help people, animals, places or things in need. People often set charities up because nobody else seems to be giving this help.

Charities are not allowed to make a profit: all the money they raise has to be spent helping whatever it is they were set up to help. discussionSo they are also called "not-for-profit" organisations.

How many charities can you name?

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How many charities are there in the UK at the moment?

A There are over 200,000 charities in the UK. If you include places of worship, some schools, universities, hospitals, community groups, and other associations, there could be as many as 420,000.
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How many people do they employ?

A The latest estimate is that the total income to charities was £14 billion — at the lowest end of the scale — and £20 billion, if you define charities more broadly. In 1998-99, Oxfam — the top charity earner — had a total income of just under £170 million. People like us gave just over £105 million of that. The rest came in grants.
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How much money do they raise?

A At the very least, there are over 310,000 people employed full-time by charities in the UK. That's around 1.5 per cent of people working in the UK.

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