British Red Cross vs Christian Aid
British Red Cross grades higher: B+ against B.
Registered charity #220949
A large, competent emergency-response charity that spent more than it raised last year and asks you to fund overhead as well as outcomes.
Read the full receiptRegistered charity #1105851
A faith-rooted international development and climate-justice charity with clean reporting, though its latest filed year ran at a deficit and impact is hard to measure per pound.
Read the full receiptThe numbers
Side by side, from the accounts
British Red Cross
Christian Aid
Dec 2025
Year ended
Mar 2025
£294m
Income
£71m
£305m
Spending
£77m
4,186
Staff
666
9,800
Volunteers
9,991
12
Trustees
16
None
Flags raised
1 red, 0 amber
Each column shows the latest year that charity has filed, so the periods can differ. Spend ratios appear only where both charities disclose them at that level of detail. See methodology.