British Red Cross vs Save the Children
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 #213890
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 2024
Year ended
Dec 2024
£287m
Income
£305m
£310m
Spending
£309m
3,286
Staff
910
10,200
Volunteers
3,351
12
Trustees
9
1 red, 0 amber
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.