# Top 10 UK charities and their Twitter follower numbers

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2012/09/21/top-10-uk-charities-and-their-twitter-follower-numbers/
- Published: 2012-09-21T13:17:12+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

Angie Turner at The Children’s Trust has just explored how many Twitter followers
the top UK charities (by fundraising income) have attracted.

I’m often asked how many followers is an appropriate number for a charity on Twitter,
so here is a snapshot. The figures were correct as of 11.00 today and are rounded
to the nearest one hundred.

The top 10 list is taken from The Guardian’s publication of NCVO’s Almanac figures
for [Britain’s top 1000 charities](http://www.guardian.co.uk/news/datablog/2012/apr/24/top-1000-charities-donations-britain).
She left out the Gavi Alliance, which is the largest UK charity, but as an international
alliance of organisations is distinct from the others.

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Cancer Research UK – 47,500

Save the Children Fund – 31,400

RNIB – 10,800

RNLI – 26,500

Macmillan Cancer Support – 35,600

Oxfam GB – 39,900

British Red Cross – 32,200

NSPCC – 25,800

RSPCA – 48,600

The Salvation Army – 5,700

Angie shared these figures because she was rightly proud of the **31,400** that 
[The Children’s Trust](http://www.thechildrenstrust.org.uk) (@childrens_trust) has
attracted. The Trust is considerably smaller than these large charities.

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