Common questions about Blind Veterans UK's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Blind Veterans UK a good charity? +
Blind Veterans UK scores 86 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 85% 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 Blind Veterans UK a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Blind Veterans UK as a registered charity (charity number 216227). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=216227&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 Blind Veterans UK's charity number? +
Blind Veterans UK's charity number is 216227. 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 Blind Veterans UK's charity rating? +
Blind Veterans UK scores 86 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 Blind Veterans UK have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Blind Veterans UK. 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 Blind Veterans UK? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 85% of Blind Veterans 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 Blind Veterans UK's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 15% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 29% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Blind Veterans UK. Blind Veterans UK's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 22 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Blind Veterans UK receive? +
Blind Veterans UK reported £28m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Blind Veterans UK's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-27). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Blind Veterans UK based? +
Blind Veterans UK's registered contact address is in London (WC1N 3AR). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on sight & hearing.
How much is Blind Veterans UK's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Blind Veterans UK's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 22 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Blind Veterans UK's money come from? +
Blind Veterans UK reported £28m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £22m (78%), investments £4m (14%), charitable activities £1.6m (6%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £14m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Blind Veterans UK? +
The register records Blind Veterans 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 Blind Veterans UK's trustees paid? +
Blind Veterans UK's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Blind Veterans UK previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Blind Veterans UK: St Dunstan's.
When was Blind Veterans UK registered as a charity? +
Blind Veterans UK was entered on the register on 16 November 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00189648).
How does CharityCompare score Blind Veterans UK? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Blind Veterans 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 Blind Veterans UK'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.