How we choose | Intelligent Giving

			How we choose the charities THERE ARE 180,000 CHARITIES in England and Wales. We have profiled only 1500 and have written detailed profiles of only 500 of those. How did we choose which ones to list? What about the other 178,500? And what about Scotland & Northern Ireland? Our 500 detailed profiles Obviously we had to prioritise somehow, and we did so by popularity. So we only profiled the highest-profile charities which:

	>		We aim to cover the top 500 fundraising charities, in terms of expenditure
	>		Ask the public for donations
	>		Help underprivileged people or areas of concern
	>		Have a website
	>		Fall into the five most popular categories:
			> Religious charities
			> Environmental
			> Cancer
			> Children & young people
			> International aid

			The further 1000 profiled charities We profiled a minimum of 20 charities, prioritised by expenditure, to fill each of our sub-categories (for example, Children - Social care). Some of these sub-categories are not well served and we struggled to find enough charities for them. Others get the attention of a lot of wealthy charities. Interesting. The remaining 178,500 charities We know that the vast majority of charities are of no interest to individual donors. Many of them don't ask for donations, many are dormant and most are specialist and tiny. That's not to say they're no good. Many do amazing work and we urge you to seek them out via CAF's comprehensive search. But, as we said, we had to prioritise somehow. Scotland and Northern Ireland We're sorry we cannot list charities from Scotland or Northern Ireland. Here's why.