Christian Aid vs Save the Children
Save the Children grades higher: B+ against B.
Registered 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 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
Christian Aid
Save the Children
Mar 2025
Year ended
Dec 2025
£71m
Income
£263m
£77m
Spending
£276m
666
Staff
885
9,991
Volunteers
2,988
16
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.