How many people work for small charities?

Just under half of the workforce in the voluntary sector are employed by charities with fewer than 25 staff – over 400,000 people.
Among those, 238,000 (28%) work for charities with fewer than 10 staff.
60,000 people (7%) work for charities with over 500 staff.

In this site, we define a small charity as a voluntary or community organisation with an annual income of less than £1m...

We use data from a wide range of organisations that hold data and evidence on small charities...

Find out more about the data we use