British Red Cross vs Save the Children
Level on grade: both marked B+. The receipts settle the rest.
B+4 out of 5
British Red Cross
Registered charity #220949
Give with eyes open
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 receiptB+4 out of 5
Save the Children
Registered charity #213890
Give with eyes open
A large, reputable children’s charity that has reformed after a regulator-confirmed workplace-culture failure and ran a small deficit last year.
Read the full receiptThe numbers
Side by side, from the accounts
British Red Cross
Save the Children
Dec 2025
Year ended
Dec 2025
£294m
Income
£263m
£305m
Spending
£276m
4,186
Staff
885
9,800
Volunteers
2,988
12
Trustees
9
None
Flags raised
None
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.