Originally Posted by yviebabe:
“Spot on, far too much of a money spinner. More breakthroughs have been made by government funded research than CRUK.”
The top 10 charities by fundraising income (2010/11 ranking in brackets) for 2014/15:
1 Cancer Research UK (1) £446.5m raised out of a total income of £634.9m
2 British Heart Foundation (2) £263.8m, £288.2m
3 Macmillan Cancer Support (6) £214.1m, £218.4m
4 Oxfam (3) £192.8m, £401.4m
5 Sightsavers (10) £184.7m, £199.7m
6 RNLI (4) £170.9m, £190.1m
7 British Red Cross (7) £139.1m, £261.8m
8 Salvation Army (9) £130m, £196.3m
9 Save the Children (13) £125.3m, £370.3m
10 NSPCC (5) £115.3m, £125.9m
I'm surprised the RSPCA is not in there.