British Red Cross vs Oxfam
Level on grade: both marked B+. The receipts settle the rest.
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 #202918
A B+ charity with an A+ brand. Serious humanitarian operator, uneven on development, weak on translating its campaigning into policy wins, and with a safeguarding history that was handled badly before it was handled well.
Read the full receiptThe numbers
Side by side, from the accounts
British Red Cross
Oxfam
Dec 2025
Year ended
Mar 2025
£294m
Income
£339m
£305m
Spending
£363m
4,186
Staff
4,084
9,800
Volunteers
28,920
12
Trustees
10
None
Flags raised
1 red, 1 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.