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Oxfam vs Save the Children

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

B+
Oxfam

Registered charity #202918

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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.

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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

Oxfam

Save the Children

Mar 2025

Year ended

Dec 2024

£339m

Income

£305m

£363m

Spending

£309m

4,084

Staff

910

28,920

Volunteers

3,351

10

Trustees

9

0 red, 1 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.