Common questions about Accounting for Sustainability's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Accounting for Sustainability a good charity? +
Accounting for Sustainability scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 97% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are up to date. That reflects how transparent and financially healthy it looks on paper — it does not measure the real-world impact of its work, so treat it as one factor alongside the cause you care about. CharityCompare never tells you where to donate.
Is Accounting for Sustainability a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Accounting for Sustainability as a registered charity (charity number 1195467). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1195467&subId=0. Check the current entry and the identity of anyone requesting money. Registration does not verify a particular appeal; Clarity Score summarises filing transparency, not programme impact.
What is Accounting for Sustainability's charity number? +
Accounting for Sustainability's charity number is 1195467. Check that number on the official register (Charity Commission, OSCR or CCNI) or this CharityCompare profile before you donate — scammers sometimes reuse real numbers on fake appeals.
What is Accounting for Sustainability's charity rating? +
Accounting for Sustainability scores 87 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). The Clarity Score (method v1.1) sums four pillars from UK regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 pts), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10). Stars use the same bands as those labels — 90+ is 5★ Exceptional. It is not an impact ranking.
Does Accounting for Sustainability have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Accounting for Sustainability. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Accounting for Sustainability? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 97% of Accounting for Sustainability's total spending went to charitable activities (3-yr avg across disclosed years). That is the closest official figure to "how much of your donation reaches the cause" — it is an average across all spending in the filing, not a pound-by-pound breakdown of an individual gift.
What are Accounting for Sustainability's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 3% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Accounting for Sustainability. Accounting for Sustainability's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Accounting for Sustainability receive? +
Accounting for Sustainability reported £3.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Accounting for Sustainability's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Accounting for Sustainability based? +
Accounting for Sustainability's registered contact address is in London (EC2A 2AP). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Brazil, United States, Canada, France, Germany, with a focus on human rights.
How much is Accounting for Sustainability's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Accounting for Sustainability's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Charities normally disclose the chief executive's pay, or the pay of their highest-paid staff, in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Where does Accounting for Sustainability's money come from? +
Accounting for Sustainability reported £3.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2m (53%), other income £1.6m (44%), charitable activities £108k (3%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Accounting for Sustainability? +
The register does not record Accounting for Sustainability as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Accounting for Sustainability's trustees paid? +
Accounting for Sustainability's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Accounting for Sustainability registered as a charity? +
Accounting for Sustainability was entered on the register on 10 August 2021.
How does CharityCompare score Accounting for Sustainability? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Accounting for Sustainability's regulator filings: Accountability & Transparency (40 points — filing history, trustees, policies), Financial Health (30 — reserves, income trend, debt), Financial Efficiency (20 — cause spend and fundraising cost, on a graduated scale) and Community Support (10 — volunteer-to-staff ratio). An open statutory inquiry scores 0. The score measures reporting on paper, not programme impact. CharityCompare is free for donors, takes no commission on donations, and scores cannot be bought.
How often is this page updated? +
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Accounting for Sustainability's most recent accounts cover 2025. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.