Common questions about Birmingham Royal Ballet's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Birmingham Royal Ballet a good charity? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet scores 72 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% 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 Birmingham Royal Ballet a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Birmingham Royal Ballet as a registered charity (charity number 1061012). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1061012&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 Birmingham Royal Ballet's charity number? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet's charity number is 1061012. 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 Birmingham Royal Ballet's charity rating? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet scores 72 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Birmingham Royal Ballet have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Birmingham Royal Ballet. 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 Birmingham Royal Ballet? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of Birmingham Royal Ballet'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 Birmingham Royal Ballet's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Birmingham Royal Ballet. Birmingham Royal Ballet's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Birmingham Royal Ballet receive? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet reported £18m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Birmingham Royal Ballet's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-03). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Birmingham Royal Ballet based? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet's registered contact address is in Birmingham (B5 4AU). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is Birmingham Royal Ballet's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Birmingham Royal Ballet's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Birmingham Royal Ballet's money come from? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet reported £18m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £10m (57%), charitable activities £7.4m (42%), investments £94k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £123k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Birmingham Royal Ballet? +
The register records Birmingham Royal Ballet 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 Birmingham Royal Ballet's trustees paid? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Birmingham Royal Ballet registered as a charity? +
Birmingham Royal Ballet was entered on the register on 28 February 1997. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03320538).
How does CharityCompare score Birmingham Royal Ballet? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Birmingham Royal Ballet'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 Birmingham Royal Ballet'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.