Cancer Research UK will seek to: Consistently raise sufficient income to support their scientific ambitions raise awareness of Cancer Research UK and its mission recruit and retain high quality staff across the organisation create the highest quality infrastructure and support services.
The N.S.P.C.C
Registered charity number 216401
The NSPCC was founded in 1844 to stop cruelty to children. The NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) is the UK’s leading charity specialising in child protection and the prevention of cruelty to children. Founded in 1884 as the London SPCC by the Reverend Benjamin Waugh, the NSPCC is the only UK children’s charity with statutory powers that enable it to take action to safeguard children at risk of abuse.
The NSPCC’s mission is to end cruelty to children. Their vision is a society in which all children are loved, valued and able to fulfil their potential. In other words, a society that will not tolerate child abuse: whether sexual, physical, emotional, or neglect.
World Wide Fund For nature
Registered charity number 1081407
The WWF was founded in 1961. The WWF is: The world’s largest and most experienced independent conservation organisation;
a truly global network, with 52 offices working in more than 90 countries;
a challenging, constructive, science-based organisation that addresses issues from the survival of species and habitats to climate change, sustainable business and environmental education;
dependent upon its five million supporters worldwide – some 90 per cent of our income derives from voluntary sources such as people and the business community.
The WWF was founded in 1961 and since then their mission has been: Is to stop the degradation of the planet’s natural environment, and to build a future in which humans live in harmony with nature.
Comic Relief
Registered charity number 326568
Comic relief was founded in 1985. Comic Relief was launched from a refugee camp in Sudan in 1985 on Noel Edmunds’ Late, Late Breakfast Show on BBC ONE, on Christmas Day, in response to the famine in Ethiopia. As well as doing something about that very real and direct emergency, we were determined to help tackle broader needs of poor and disadvantaged people in Africa and the UK.
The first Red Nose Day was held in 1988. This first big night of television was presented by Lenny Henry, Griff Rhys Jones and Jonathan Ross, and raised more than £15 million! Since then, Comic Relief has produced six more even bigger Red Nose Days and raised more than £220 million.
Age Concern
Registered charity number 261794
Age Concern was founded in 1940. Age Concern has been helping older people in the UK for more than 60 years. Today they are a national network of more than 400 independent charities, second only to the government in providing high-quality help and care for older people.
Age Concern supports all people over 50 in the UK, ensuring that they get the most from life. They provide essential services such as day care and information. They campaign on issues like age discrimination and pensions, and work to influence public opinion and government policy about older people.
Every one of the many UK branches of Age Concern is different. They are each made to suit their local area so it has more affect. This is a unique way of running the charity to meet the needs of the people it is helping better.
BBC Children In Need
Registered charity number 802052
BBC Children in need was founded in 1988. Since the 1980’s, the BBC Children in Need appeal has raised over £300 million for disadvantaged children living in the UK. BBC Children in Need aims to improve the lives and prospects of children and young people living in the UK who have experienced hardships, difficulties or disadvantages of some kind.
Each year the charity provides practical and lasting support to thousands of youngsters aged 18 and under, including those that have disabilities or psychological disorders, and those who have encountered serious illness, abuse, poverty or neglect. In order to do this the charity allocates grants to registered charities or voluntary and community groups that have a clear focus on making a positive difference to children's lives.
The BBC Children in Need Appeal is the most important single event in the BBC calendar and the only occasion when the whole of the BBC joins together in support of a single project - on television, radio and online.
The BBC's first broadcast appeal for children took place in 1927, in the form of a five minute radio broadcast on Christmas Day. It raised around £1,143, which equates to about £27,150 by today's standards. The most Recent appeal was held last November and the the charity's TV telethon raised over £12.9 million on the night - a total that improved upon the last year's nightly total of £12.2 million.
The R.S.P.C.A
Registered Charity number 219099
The RSPCA was founded in 1824. In 1822, Richard Martin MP piloted the first anti-cruelty bill giving cattle, horses and sheep a degree of protection through parliament. He was one of the 22 founders of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, which was launched in London in 1824. The SPCA became the first national animal protection society in the world.
At that time, compassion for animals was regarded as bizarre. Animals were regarded as little more than commodities supplying food, transport or sport. In its early years the Society’s major campaign was to win over the hearts and minds of the general public, and to change people’s indifference to animal cruelty.
The 181 convictions for cruelty that the Society achieved during 1832 - the first year such figures were recorded in its annual report - made a telling impact on public opinion about the treatment of animals.
By 1840 the Society’s work was held in such high regard that Queen Victoria gave her permission for the SPCA to be called the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals.
Its practical welfare work developed quickly. Others joined the single inspector appointed in London to check on markets and slaughterhouses. Together they formed a law enforcement body that pre-dated the police force.
News of the work of the Society spread outside London. By 1842, campaigners in Bath, Brighton, Bristol, Coventry and Scarborough had all requested the appointment of an inspector of their own.
With the increasing number of donations and bequests the Society was attracting, there were funds to expand beyond the capital.
Regional inspectors were appointed, with local campaigners promising to raise £20 a year towards ‘their’ inspector’s wages. This development created the nucleus of a national network of 187 branches in England and Wales that exists today.
Ways to raise money
The work that the charities do has to be funded somehow. Here you will look at the income, expenditure and funds of the charities described above. Here are the ways in which the 8 charities earn money to support their charity:
Oxfam’s two main ways of raising money are from television advertising and running charity shops. Its charity shops make money by selling second hand items, usually that are given to the shop as a donation. Its income is £189 million per year, it’s expenditure £187 million per year and it’s funds £54.4 million.
Comic relief’s main two ways of getting money are through a television show and selling things for red nose day. The television show, which happens on red nose day, is an event that happens once a year and is run by comic relief. It also makes money by the sales of it’s popular red noses. It’s income is £65.4 million per year, it’s expenditure £23.2 million per year and it’s funds £65.8 million.
Cancer research has many ways of making money, instead of having just a few main ways of advertising on two main types like Oxfam or Comic Relief. A few of these ways are television advertising, Internet advertising, leaflets in hospitals or doctor’s surgeries. Its income is £250 million per year, its expenditure is £239 million per year and its funds are £212 million.
BBC Children in need, a lot like comic relief, uses the television as it’s advertising tool. It too hosts a TV show once a year, and sells items that usually have Pudsey Bear on. Pudsey is a bear that is used for their logo and they use this to advertise their charity. Its income is £22.6 million per year, it’s expenditure £24.6 million per year and it’s funds £13.1 million.
The R.S.P.C.A advertise through leaflets at vets, and their appearances on TV vet shows. On the TV the R.S.P.C.A are usually involved of the rescue of an animal before it is taken to a vet. It’s income is £69.4 million per year, it’s expenditure £78.3 million per year and it’s funds £145 million.
Age concern advertises on quite a small scale. It has charity shops, which, like Oxfam, sell second hand products. They also use leaflets as a source of advertising. Although it’s advertising is on a small scale they have many branches across England. Its income is £28.3 million per year, it’s expenditure is £25.2 million per year and it’s funds are £20.1 million.
WWF or World Wide Fund For Nature uses television advertising, Internet advertising and leaflets as just a few ways to advertise. Its income is £30.3 million per year, it’s expenditure is £29.4 million per year and it’s funds are £14.5 million. (These set of figures are for WWFUK, the UK branch of the WWF charity.)
The N.S.P.C.C uses television advertising and leaflets as part of their full stop campaign to stop cruelty to children. Its income is £90.6 million per year, its expenditure is £41.1 million per year and it’s funds £60.2 million.