About Gloucestershire’s VCSE sector

With over 2,600 registered charities and 2,000 social enterprises operating across Gloucestershire, the VCSE sector creates over 15,000 jobs and spends over £1bn annually.

You can find out more about the sector demographics below.

Registered Charities Dashboard

Social Enterprises Dashboard

The dashboard below shows information about companies within Gloucestershire which are limited by guarantee or shares, or are Community Interest Companies (CICs).

Guidance

  • These datasets was extracted during w/c 2nd February 2026 and are accurate at that date. The next datasets will be uploaded during w/c 20th April 2026.

  • The data within the Registered Charities Dashboard is taken from the Charity Commission for England and Wales, and categorised by our own “Sub-category” classifications, the NCVO charity size bands, and by Local Authority districts (as made available via Inform Gloucestershire’s lookup tool Postcode Lookup Tool | Inform Gloucestershire).

  • The charities selected include all of those who have a registered office address within Gloucestershire.

  • Some very large charities are included in the Registered Charities dataset. They include:

    • Parish Giving Scheme (Charity No. 1156606, Gloucester)

    • Ruskin Mill Trust Limited (Charity No. 1137167, Stroud)

    • The Universities and Colleges Admission Service (Charity No. 1024741, Cheltenham)

    • The Benefact Trust Limited (Charity No. 263960, Tewkesbury)

  • Several Private Schools and Academy Trusts are registered charities, and are thus included.

  • These dashboards are owned by Gloucestershire VCSE Alliance and protected by copyright.

How to Use

  • The dashboards works best when viewed on a desktop PC or laptop.

  • The first page of the Registered Charities Dashboard displays all charity data, and can be filtered by District, NCVO Size and Activity.

    • The second page displays financial data for each district.

    • The third page displays financial data for each sub-sector.

  • To move between pages, click the arrow at the bottom of the dashboard.

  • The maps can be very slow to load due to the amount of data included. Please wait until the data for all districts is showing before filtering.

If you have any questions or guidance on using our dashboards, please e-mail info@glosalliance.org.uk

Historic Datasets

To capture changes in Gloucestershire’s VCSE sector over time, we retain historic datasets.