Common questions about Active Luton's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Active Luton a good charity? +
Active Luton scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Active Luton a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Active Luton as a registered charity (charity number 1111804). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1111804&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 Active Luton's charity number? +
Active Luton's charity number is 1111804. 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 Active Luton's charity rating? +
Active Luton scores 75 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 Active Luton have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Active Luton. 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 Active Luton? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of Active Luton'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 Active Luton's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 2% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Active Luton. Active Luton's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Active Luton receive? +
Active Luton reported £16m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Active Luton's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-11-25). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Active Luton based? +
Active Luton's registered contact address is in Luton (LUTON). It tells the regulator it operates in Luton, Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is Active Luton's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Active Luton's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Active Luton's money come from? +
Active Luton reported £16m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £12m (74%), donations and legacies £3.7m (23%), investments £217k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Active Luton? +
The register does not record Active Luton as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Active Luton's trustees paid? +
Active Luton's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Active Luton registered as a charity? +
Active Luton was entered on the register on 25 October 2005. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05458934).
How does CharityCompare score Active Luton? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Active Luton'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 Active Luton'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.