Mark Anderson
This article showcases our top picks for the best English Non Profit companies. These startups and companies are taking a variety of approaches to innovating the Non Profit industry, but are all exceptional companies well worth a follow.
We tried to pick companies across the size spectrum from cutting edge startups to established brands.
We selected these startups and companies for exceptional performance in one of these categories:
- Innovation
- Innovative ideas
- Innovative route to market
- Innovative product
- Growth
- Exceptional growth
- Exceptional growth strategy
- Management
- Societal impact
Top English Non Profit Startups
Data sourced from Crunchbase and SemRush.
Wellcome Trust
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Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health.
City of London
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City of London Corporation is a government body that provides economic, social, and community development services.
Digital Catapult
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Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.
Founders Pledge
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Founders Pledge is a global community of entrepreneurs finding and funding solution’s to the world’s most pressing problems.
Youth Business International
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Youth Business International helps young people to start and grow their own business and create employment.
Raising IT
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A flexible software platform that helps nonprofits optimise their on-line presence
TapSimple
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TapSimple is to help charities, fundraisers, and volunteers raise more donations in an increasingly cashless world.
Amnesty International
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Amnesty International is a global charity organization of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.
Avoidance of Mass Extinctions Engine
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Amee houses is a Wikipedia-style database that enables viewers to check the financial and environmental credibility of companies.
CDP
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CDP aims to transform the way the world does business in order to prevent dangerous climate change and protect natural resources.
School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE)
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School for Social Entrepreneurs (SSE) Australia inspires and equips changemakers to establish, scale and sustain social ventures.
Alice SI
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Alice SI is using the approach to provide donors
Liberty
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Liberty is a cross-party, membership organization focused on fundamental rights and freedoms in the United Kingdom.
The Bureau of Investigative Journalism
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The Bureau of Investigative Journalism is an independent non-profit organization that pursues in-depth journalism into organizations.
Global Innovation Fund
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GIF invests in social innovations that aim to improve the lives and opportunities of millions of people in the developing world.
JustGiving
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JustGiving is an online platform for charitable fundraising and non-charitable crowdfunding for good causes.
International SOS
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International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.
Sir Bobby Robson Foundation
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Sir Bobby Robson Foundation is Finding more effective ways to detect and treat cancer
Khulisa
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Khulisa deliver behaviour change programmes in schools, prisons and communities.
Videre
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Videre is a global network that equips oppressed communities
Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science
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Centre for Innovation in Regulatory Science is provides an international forum for industryand other healthcare stakeholders to meet, debate
3SC
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3SC wins and manages public services contracts on behalf of third sector organisations. Using a consortium model, it manages the bidding.
Diversity VC
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Diversity VC is a non-profit partnership promoting diversity in venture capital.
Football Beyond Borders (FBB)
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Football Beyond Borders an education and social inclusion charity that uses young people’s passion for football to educate .
British Council(BIRAX)
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British Council is a government institution that promotes culture, art, education, technology, and science.
Ally Chatbot
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Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
vinspired
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vinspired is the UK’s leading volunteering charity for 14 – 25 year olds.
Voice 21
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Voice 21 is a campaign to raise the status of oracy in schools across the UK.
Made In Hackney
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Made In Hackney offers free community classes for people most in need.
Heath Robinson Museum
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The William Heath Robinson Trust was established to conserve and exhibit the collection of the works of William Heath Robinson.
SCOPE
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SCOPE is the UK’s leading learning disability support charity
Engaging Networks
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Engaging Networks is the technology used by many of the world’s leading charities to power their digital strategies.
Pace4Life
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Pace4Life is a Charity that re-uses donated pacemakers in the developing world
Shell Foundation
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Shell Foundation is an independent UK registered charity that catalyses enterprise-based solutions to global development challenges.
Italian Trade Agency
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The ICE-Italian Trade Promotion Agency is the government organisation which promotes the internationalisation of the Italian companies.
Thomson Reuters Foundation
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Thomson Reuters Foundation is a non-profit organization that provides an international audience with information and free legal assistance.
City & Guilds Group
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The City & Guilds Group is a leader in global skills development, providing services to meet the needs of today’s workplace.
Friends of the Earth Trust
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Friends of The Earth organizes campaigns on climate change; environmental justice; land, food, and water; and nature.
Natural History Museum
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The Natural History Museum in London is a treasure in every way. Join us for updates on our science, collections and all our activities.
The ONE Campaign
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The ONE Campaign is an international, nonpartisan, non-profit, advocacy and campaigning organization.
Profitroom Sp. Z O.o.
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Profitroom Sp. Z O.o is a created a network of partner connections with many IT providers and industry in Greater London.
Pennies
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Pennies is the digital equivalent of the traditional charity collection box.
E2Exchange
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E2Exchange is a connection based company, introducing entrepreneurs, investors, and directors.
Action Acton
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Action Acton is an expanding West London charity, Development Trust, Limited Liability Company and social enterprise.
Anchor Trust
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Anchor is England’s largest not-for-profit provider of housing and care for the over-55s.
Department for International Trade
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DIT is responsible for promoting UK trade across the world and ensuring the UK takes advantage of the huge opportunities open to us.
The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association
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The British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) is the industry body for private equity and venture capital in the UK.
Buengo
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Buengo is an app that allows people to sell the stuff they don’t need anymore and donate the proceeds to good causes.
The Climate Group
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The Climate Group is an award-winning, international non-profit.
Whizz Education
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Maths-Whizz supports whole class, small group and one-to-one teaching.
Virgin StartUp
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Virgin StartUp is on a mission to change the prospects of start-ups, for good.
British Bankers Association
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The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Big Brother Watch
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Big Brother Watch campaigns on behalf of the individual, to educate and encourage more control over personal data.
Sense
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Sense is a nonprofit organization that provides housing, education, support and social health care solutions for people with disabilities.
British Academy of Film and Television Arts
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Supports, develops and promotes the art forms of the moving image by identifying and rewarding excellence.
MedCity
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MedCity is an enterprise that brings together the life sciences sector in the Golden Triangle to stimulate greater economic growth.
Fleetwood Town Football Club
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Fleetwood Town Football Club is a professional association football club based in the town of Fleetwood, Lancashire, England.
Anthony Nolan
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Anthony Nolan is a not for profit organization that works for people with blood cancer as well as blood disorders.
Chatham House
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Chatham House aims to analyze and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs.
Unicef UK
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We are the world’s leading children’s organisation in the UK and around the globe.
IFL Science
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IFLScience aims to promote everything that’s cool about science with energy, passion and an irreverent point-of-view that aims to entertain.
Edtech UK
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A new strategic body set up to help accelerate the growth of the UK’s education technology sector in Britain and globally.
trellyz
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A could-based, SaaS business providing Care Logistics to city and nonprofit public service providers
CoHome
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CoHome is the first entrepreneurial residency project that embraces the same core values as the collaborative economy.
Notting Hill Housing Group
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Notting Hill Housing is a leading London housing association. We’ve been around since 1963 and now manage over 27,000 properties.
British Board of Film Classification
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British Board of Film Classification is responsible for the national classification and censorship of films within the United Kingdom.
Elbi Digital
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Elbi Digital is an app for social good that allows the user to create, donate, and feel good.
The Church of England
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The Church of England is a non-profit religious organization that offers prayers, funding support and also renders a venue for live events.
Micro:bit
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micro:bit is a tiny programmable computer, designed to make learning and teaching easy and fun!
HTB Church
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HTB Church is a non-profit religious institution that offers online church services.
Oasis Foundation
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Oasis Foundation is a ground-breaking global Christian movement and group of charities and social enterprises.
World Nuclear Association
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The World Nuclear Association promotes the peaceful worldwide use of nuclear power as a sustainable energy resource.
IPPR
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The IPPR is a think tank that conducts and publishes research and promotes public education.
West Ham United Football Club
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West Ham United Football Club are a professional football club in Upton Park, East London, England
Leonard Cheshire Disability
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Leonard Cheshire Disability is a major health and welfare charity working in the United Kingdom.
Teens in AI
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Teens in AI empowers young people to change the world through artificial intelligence for social good.
The CBI
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The CBI is the UK’s top business lobbying organisation.
Cherie Blair Foundation for Women
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The Cherie Blair Foundation for Women is a charity that supports women entrepreneurs in developing and emerging markets
Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
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Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse.
ARTICLE 19
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ARTICLE 19 is a human rights-focused non-governmental organization that defends and promotes freedom of expression and information.
Chayn Labs
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CHAYN is an open-source project that leverages technology to empower women against violence and oppression.
The House of St Barnabas
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The House of St Barnabas’ vision is to create a future where sustained employment is a reality for those affected by homelessness.
Stonewall
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Stonewall, the British charity for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans equality.
One Young World
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One Young World was founded in 2009 by David Jones and Kate Robertson. They are a London-based charity that gathers together young people
Rainmaking Loft
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Rainmaking Loft is a co-working space set up by Rainmaking, one of Europe’s leading players within entrepreneurship.
Believe.in
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Believe.in offers a white label technology that improves online fundraising, donation processing, and event performance.
L&Q
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L&Q is a non-profit organization that provides safe homes, support, care and neighbourhoods for every type of resident to live peacefully.
British Society for Rheumatology
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British Society for Rheumatology provides resources and education for research and medical practices in regards to rheumatology.
STEMettes
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They’re showing that girls do STEM (Sci, Tech, Eng & Maths) too.
St Christopher’s Hospice
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St Christopher’s Hospice is a non-profit organization that specializes in providing palliative and family care services free of cost.
Center for Global Development
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Center for Global Development is an independent, not-for-profit think tank that works to reduce global poverty and inequality.
Catch22
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Catch22 has a social business providing services that help people in tough situations to turn their lives around.
International Medical Corps
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International Medical Corps’ Mission: From Relief to Self-Reliance
HCPC
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HCPC is an NGO that provides education, training, health and care professional services.
The MDU
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The MDU is a not-for-profit organization that offers guidance, personal support & robust defense to medical and dental professionals.
The HALO Trust
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The HALO Trust is a humanitarian landmine clearance organization that creates safe and secure environments.
