Oxfam vs Save the Children
Level on grade: both marked B+. The receipts settle the rest.
Registered charity #202918
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.
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
Oxfam
Save the Children
Mar 2025
Year ended
Dec 2025
£339m
Income
£263m
£363m
Spending
£276m
4,084
Staff
885
28,920
Volunteers
2,988
10
Trustees
9
0 red, 1 amber
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.