Casework and registrations data: April to June 2025
Updated 26 August 2025
Applies to England and Wales
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Introduction
This report contains the Charity Commission’s registration and casework figures for April to June 2025. The release covers key areas of the regulator’s work throughout the period, including registrations and register information, regulatory action cases, statutory inquiries figures and ‘Revitalising Trusts’ cases.
The Charity Commission
The Charity Commission is the registrar and regulator of charities in England and Wales. Parliament has given us five statutory objectives which are to:
- promote compliance by charity trustees with their legal obligations in exercising control and management of their charities
- enhance the accountability of charities to donors, beneficiaries and the general public
- increase public trust and confidence in charities
- promote awareness and understanding of the operation of the public benefit requirement
- promote effective use of charitable resources
Registrations and register information
There were 170,827 charities on the register at the end of June 2025 with a total annual income of £103 billion and a total expenditure of £102 billion.
The register of charities contains an up-to-date sector overview.
| Category | July to Sept 2024 | Oct to Dec 2024 | Jan to Mar 2025 | April to June 2025 | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registration applications | 2,366 | 2,434 | 2,587 | 2,811 | 10,198 |
| Charities registered | 1,359 | 1,257 | 1,207 | 1,101 | 4,924 |
| Removals from register | 1,142 | 1,010 | 1,085 | 1,135 | 4,372 |
| Charities on the register | 170,503 | 170,755 | 170,877 | 170,827 | |
| Trustees | 923,586 | 924,238 | 924,700 | 923,332 |
‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme
The ‘Revitalising Trusts’ programme supports charities that have spent less than 30% of their income in the past 5 years. The programme helps charities in situations where it is hard for the charity to:
- get new trustees
- spend their income
- identify beneficiaries
- find time to run the charity
To ensure the charity’s funds are spent effectively, charities can:
- transfer their assets to another charity
- close down or ‘wind up’
- change their purposes to continue working more effectively
Cases closed refer to charities spending funds effectively in any of the ways outlined above. The amount revitalised specifically refers to the transfer of assets to another charity.
| Category | July to Sept 2024 | Oct to Dec 2024 | Jan to Mar 2025 | April to June 2025 | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Revitalising Trusts – cases closed | 74 | 52 | 66 | 24 | 216 |
| Revitalising Trusts – amount revitalised | £3.08 million | £2.52 million | £6.82 million | £721,977 | £ 13.14 million |
Regulatory authority cases
Regulatory Authority casework is a statutory function of the Commission, which encourages and facilitates the better administration of charities. As part of this work, the Commission considers applications from trustees seeking its consent to take certain actions, including to:
- amend a charity’s purpose
- change structure or governance
- merge with another charity
- deal with assets
When considering applications, the Commission’s role is to ensure that trustees make decisions that are in their charity’s best interests with a focus on beneficiaries.
Some of the most frequent enabling powers used by the Commission include:
- allowing charities to amend their charitable purpose or how they achieve it
- authorising actions which are in the best interests of a charity but which the trustees do not have the power to take
| Category | April to June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Regulatory cases opened | 840 |
| Regulatory cases closed | 733 |
| Regulatory permissions granted | 734 |
Regulatory action
Regulatory concern cases
Occasionally things go wrong in a charity due to the actions or failure to act of the trustees. The Commission will identify and investigate problems in charities so we can work to resolve issues of concern. We prioritise the most serious issues: those which have the potential to cause the highest level of harm to public trust and confidence, or which may affect trustees’ ability to comply with their duties.
These figures exclude serious incident reports, matters of material significance reports and statutory inquiries as these are reported in later sections of this publication.
| Category | July to Sept 2024 | Oct to Dec 2024 | Jan to Mar 2025 | April to June 2025 | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Regulatory concern cases opened | 1,119 | 1,118 | 1,262 | 1,317 | 4,816 |
| Regulatory concern cases closed | 1,152 | 1,050 | 1,048 | 1,084 | 4,334 |
| Regulatory concern cases active | 998 | 1,069 | 1,196 | 1,367 | - |
Serious incident reports and matters of material significance
The Commission requires charities to report serious incidents. A serious incident is an adverse event, whether actual or alleged, which results in or risks significant:
- harm to a charity’s beneficiaries, staff, volunteers or others who come into contact with the charity through its work
- loss of a charity’s money or assets
- damage to a charity’s property
- harm to a charity’s work or reputation
The Commission has guidance for charity trustees on how to report serious incidents. Reporting serious incidents is part of the effective management of a charity and reports are not necessarily an indication of wrongdoing in a charity.
| Category | July to Sept 2024 | Oct to Dec 2024 | Jan to Mar 2025 | April to June 2025 | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Serious incident reports opened | 1,036 | 843 | 952 | 783 | 3,614 |
| Serious incident reports closed | 888 | 879 | 911 | 720 | 3,398 |
Matters of material significance include, but are not limited to, dishonesty and fraud, internal controls and governance, money laundering and criminal activity and support of terrorism. Any person appointed as an independent examiner or auditor for a charity has a duty to report matters of material significance.
| Category | July to Sept 2024 | Oct to Dec 2024 | Jan to Mar 2025 | April to June 2025 | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matters of material significance reports opened | 125 | 101 | 104 | 80 | 410 |
| Matters of material significance reports closed | 143 | 91 | 121 | 106 | 461 |
Statutory inquiries
A statutory inquiry is a legal power enabling the Commission to formally investigate matters of regulatory concern within a charity and to use protective powers for the benefit of the charity and its beneficiaries, assets or reputation. An inquiry will help identify the extent, if any, of misconduct or mismanagement in the administration of the charity; assess any risk to the charity and its assets; and decide if the Commission needs to act to protect the property of the charity.
| Category | July to Sept 2024 | Oct to Dec 2024 | Jan to Mar 2025 | April to June 2025 | Year to date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Statutory inquiries opened | 9 | 39 | 62 | 18 | 128 |
| Statutory inquiries closed | 19 | 20 | 28 | 12 | 79 |
| Statutory inquiries ongoing | 128 | 150 | 184 | 190 |
Contact Centre
The Commission’s contact centre provides a first point of contact for trustees, charities, and the public. It offers guidance on using the Commission’s services, helps with accessibility requests, and supports people with service-related queries or complaints.
| Category | April to June 2025 |
|---|---|
| Contact Centre calls received | 24,990 |