Common questions about Barking and Dagenham Giving's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Barking and Dagenham Giving a good charity? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving scores 40 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 6% 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 Barking and Dagenham Giving a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Barking and Dagenham Giving as a registered charity (charity number 1166335). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1166335&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 Barking and Dagenham Giving's charity number? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving's charity number is 1166335. 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 Barking and Dagenham Giving's charity rating? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving scores 40 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 Barking and Dagenham Giving have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Barking and Dagenham Giving. 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 Barking and Dagenham Giving? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 6% of Barking and Dagenham Giving'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 Barking and Dagenham Giving'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 0% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Barking and Dagenham Giving. Barking and Dagenham Giving's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (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 Barking and Dagenham Giving receive? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving reported £63m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Barking and Dagenham Giving's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-27). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Barking and Dagenham Giving based? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in Barking and Dagenham, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Barking and Dagenham Giving's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Barking and Dagenham Giving's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (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 Barking and Dagenham Giving's money come from? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving reported £63m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £49m (78%), other income £14m (22%), investments £336k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Barking and Dagenham Giving? +
The register does not record Barking and Dagenham Giving as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Barking and Dagenham Giving's trustees paid? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Barking and Dagenham Giving previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Barking and Dagenham Giving: Barking Renew; Barking and Dagenham Renew.
When was Barking and Dagenham Giving registered as a charity? +
Barking and Dagenham Giving was entered on the register on 1 April 2016. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09922379).
How does CharityCompare score Barking and Dagenham Giving? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Barking and Dagenham Giving'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 Barking and Dagenham Giving'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.