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RSPB vs Save the Children

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

B+4 out of 5
RSPB

Registered charity #207076

Give with eyes open

A serious conservation operator with real land and real outcomes, but a large membership machine where a meaningful slice of every pound goes to running the membership machine.

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B+4 out of 5
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

RSPB

Save the Children

Mar 2025

Year ended

Dec 2025

£195m

Income

£263m

£177m

Spending

£276m

2,486

Staff

885

13,000

Volunteers

2,988

12

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.