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British Red Cross vs Save the Children

Level on grade: both marked B+. The receipts settle the rest.

B+
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.

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B+
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.

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The 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.