Common questions about Action Against Hunger UK's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Action Against Hunger UK a good charity? +
Action Against Hunger UK scores 50 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 91% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Action Against Hunger UK a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Action Against Hunger UK as a registered charity (charity number 1047501). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1047501&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 Action Against Hunger UK's charity number? +
Action Against Hunger UK's charity number is 1047501. 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 Action Against Hunger UK's charity rating? +
Action Against Hunger UK scores 50 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Action Against Hunger UK have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Action Against Hunger UK. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Action Against Hunger UK? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 91% of Action Against Hunger UK'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 Action Against Hunger UK's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 9% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Action Against Hunger UK. Action Against Hunger UK's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 16 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Action Against Hunger UK receive? +
Action Against Hunger UK reported £22m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Action Against Hunger UK's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Action Against Hunger UK based? +
Action Against Hunger UK's registered contact address is in London (E14 9GE). It tells the regulator it operates in England, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Colombia, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Action Against Hunger UK's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Action Against Hunger UK's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 16 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Action Against Hunger UK's money come from? +
Action Against Hunger UK reported £22m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £16m (72%), donations and legacies £6.3m (28%), investments £45k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £110k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Action Against Hunger UK? +
The register records Action Against Hunger UK as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid, so a UK taxpayer can usually add 25p to every £1 they give by making a Gift Aid declaration.
Are Action Against Hunger UK's trustees paid? +
Action Against Hunger UK's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Action Against Hunger UK previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Action Against Hunger UK: A.i.c.f -- Gb Limited; Action Against Hunger.
When was Action Against Hunger UK registered as a charity? +
Action Against Hunger UK was entered on the register on 27 June 1995. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03069468).
How does CharityCompare score Action Against Hunger UK? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Action Against Hunger UK'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 Action Against Hunger UK's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.