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Description
Charities Aid Foundation (CAF) is a registered charity with a simple aim: to make charity donations go further. We make it easier for donors to give and for charities to manage their money.We do this by enabling donors to give tax-efficiently to charities, helping employers run community programmes and offering charities low-cost banking, investment and fundraising services.
Also known as
- Caf
- CAF Charities Aid Foundation
- CAF Venturesome
- The Charities Aid Foundation
- Caf Charities Aid Foundation
- Charities Aid Foundation
- Charities Aid Foundation (CAF)
- Gaye
- Give as You Earn
- Margaret Thatcher Fund, Charities Aid Foundation
- Open House Stroud
...and 1 other names
CCEW Charity number
Registered
Postcode
ME19 4TA
Website
Domain
cafonline.org
Latest income
£1,147,196,000 (on )
This organisation record is based on data from Registered charities in England and Wales published by Charity Commission for England and Wales.
More about this organisation
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- cafonline.org
- Charity Commission England and Wales
- CharityBase
- Giving is Great
- Twitter: @caf
- Facebook: facebook.com/CharitiesAidFoundation
- Wikipedia: Charities Aid Foundation
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Depending on the data source, location may describe the headquarters of the organisation rather than the area it operates in.
Area of operation outside the UK
- Canada
- United States
Registered Office in the UK
This organisation record is part of a group of linked records that describe a single organisation. The organisation is linked to 2 active records and 0 inactive records, from 2 data sources.
What is an organisation identifier?
An organisation identifier is a unique piece of text that definitively identifies an organisation.
Examples include charity numbers and company numbers.
Identifiers are usually assigned by an external body like a regulator.
Findthatcharity uses the Org ID scheme to create identifiers.
GB-CHC gives the scheme for this identifier (Charity Commission), while 268369 is the identifier for this organisation within the scheme.
The Charities Aid Foundation (this record)
This organisation has been classified using different categories:
International Classification of Non-profit and Third Sector Organizations (ICNP/TSO)
ICNP/TSO categories have been automatically assigned from a machine learning model, as part of the UK Charity Classification project.
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Financial and insurance services
L60
UK Charity Activity Tags
These tags are taken from a project to classify all UK charities using a common set of tags. The tags are applied using keyword searching, so may be incorrect for particular cases.
Visit charityclassification.org.uk for more information on the project. If you have any feedback on the classification system or how it has been applied there is a form on the project homepage.
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Charity and VCS support
CV -
Charity and VCS support
CV» FundraisingCV102
Theme (CCEW)
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General Charitable Purposes
101
Beneficiaries (CCEW)
-
Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies
205
Activities (CCEW)
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Makes Grants To Organisations
302 -
Provides Other Finance
303 -
Provides Services
306 -
Provides Advocacy/advice/information
307 -
Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
308
Scale of operation
- National and Overseas
| Year ending | Income (£) | Spending (£) |
|---|---|---|
| 1974-01-01 |
Registered as a charity |
|
| 2004-04-30 | 225,722,000 | 197,542,000 |
| 2005-04-30 | 245,371,000 | 221,746,000 |
| 2006-04-30 | 254,864,000 | 229,618,000 |
| 2007-04-30 | 441,640,000 | 261,486,000 |
| 2008-04-30 | 409,243,000 | 316,389,000 |
| 2009-04-30 | 327,987,000 | 321,424,000 |
| 2010-04-30 | 377,433,000 | 307,838,000 |
| 2011-04-30 | 399,481,000 | 326,590,000 |
| 2012-04-30 | 399,946,000 | 360,248,000 |
| 2013-04-30 | 384,747,000 | 364,812,000 |
| 2014-04-30 | 418,213,000 | 406,991,000 |
| 2015-04-30 | 466,932,000 | 448,184,000 |
| 2016-04-30 | 503,327,000 | 431,551,000 |
| 2017-04-30 | 604,747,000 | 516,267,000 |
| 2018-04-30 | 597,735,000 | 482,505,000 |
| 2019-04-30 | 614,303,000 | 626,326,000 |
| 2020-04-30 | 706,322,000 | 683,398,000 |
| 2021-04-30 | 1,008,480,000 | 931,071,000 |
| 2022-04-30 | 1,044,275,000 | 920,470,000 |
| 2023-04-30 | 1,147,196,000 | 1,048,708,000 |
Data on funds and reserves are only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Employees | 650 | 570 |
| Employees paid more than £60,000 | 108 | 58 |
| Volunteers | 30 | 30 |
| Trustees | 12 |
Data on employees is only available for financial years where the charity's income was more than £500,000.
Statement of financial activities for year ended .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Incoming resources | ||
| Donations and other voluntary income | 1,047.6 | 968.8 |
| Legacies | 14.6 | 24.7 |
| Endowments | - | - |
| Donations and legacies | 1,062.2 | 993.5 |
| Income from charitable activities | 53.3 | 34.3 |
| Income from other trading activities | - | - |
| Income from investments | 31.7 | 16.4 |
| Other income | - | - |
| Total | 1,147.2 | 1,044.3 |
| Expenditure | ||
| Investment management | - | - |
| Other spending on raising funds | 21.3 | 61.7 |
| Spending on raising funds | 21.3 | 61.7 |
| Grants to institutions | 956.4 | 808.8 |
| Other charitable activities | 71.0 | 50.0 |
| Charitable activities | 1,027.4 | 858.8 |
| Other spending | - | - |
| Total | 1,048.7 | 920.5 |
| Net income / (expenditure) | 98.5 | 123.8 |
Balance sheet at .
Based on information provided to the Charity Commission for England and Wales in the charity's annual return. This may not exactly match the figures and categories supplied in the charity's annual accounts.
| 2023 £m |
2022
£m |
|
|---|---|---|
| Fixed assets | ||
| Tangible and intangible assets | 9.6 | 10.2 |
| Investment assets | 850.0 | 855.0 |
| 859.6 | 865.2 | |
| Current assets | ||
| Current investment assets | 994.0 | 858.7 |
| Cash | 1,339.4 | 1,380.5 |
| Other current assets | 239.0 | 239.1 |
| 2,572.4 | 2,478.3 | |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due within one year | (1,544.8) | (1,548.7) |
| Net current assets | 1,027.6 | 929.6 |
| Total assets less current liabilities | 1,887.1 | 1,794.8 |
| Creditors | ||
| Amounts falling due after one year | (49.8) | (40.6) |
| Net assets (excluding pension scheme) | 1,837.3 | 1,754.3 |
| Defined benefit pension scheme | - | 2.2 |
| Net assets (including pension scheme) | 1,837.3 | 1,756.4 |
| Funds | ||
| Endowment funds | - | - |
| Restricted funds | 1,753.3 | 1,679.8 |
| Unrestricted funds | 84.1 | 76.7 |
| 1,837.3 | 1,756.4 | |
| 2023 £ |
2022 £ |
|
|---|---|---|
| Contracts with government | ||
| None recorded | ||
| Government grants | ||
| Income from government grants | 75,000 | 789,000 |
| Government grants as % of total income | 0.0% | 0.1% |
| Number of government grants | 1 | 5 |
Received 12 grants. Showing most recent 10 grants.
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Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- Cabinet Office (3 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Esmée Fairbairn Foundation (4 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Garfield Weston Foundation (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- LandAid Charitable Trust (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- Power to Change Trust (2 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
- The National Lottery Community Fund (1 grant) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
View this organisation's 360Giving published grants on GrantNav.
| 2023 | 41 grants | £2,463,104 |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 | 4 grants | £3,002,307 |
| 2021 | 359 grants | £22,243,741 |
| 2020 | 1,645 grants | £18,601,594 |
Data source
Some grants data comes from funders who publish data using the 360Giving Data Standard. It was accessed using the 360Giving Datastore.
- CAF (2,049 grants) | Licence | GrantNav Publisher page
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