Common questions about Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited a good charity? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited scores 81 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 60% 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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1146649). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1146649&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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's charity number? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's charity number is 1146649. 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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's charity rating? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited scores 81 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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 60% of Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited'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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 40% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 41% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited. Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited receive? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited reported £8.1m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited based? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's registered contact address is in Leicester (LE1 7LA). It tells the regulator it operates in Leicestershire, Leicester City, Rutland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's money come from? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited reported £8.1m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £3.4m (42%), trading and fundraising events £3m (37%), donations and legacies £1.5m (19%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £628k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited? +
The register records Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited 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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's trustees paid? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited registered as a charity? +
Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited was entered on the register on 28 March 2012. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07844309).
How does CharityCompare score Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited'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 Age UK Leicester Shire and Rutland Limited'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.