Common questions about Blue Marine Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Blue Marine Foundation a good charity? +
Blue Marine Foundation scores 95 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 92% 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 Blue Marine Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Blue Marine Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1137209). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1137209&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 Blue Marine Foundation's charity number? +
Blue Marine Foundation's charity number is 1137209. 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 Blue Marine Foundation's charity rating? +
Blue Marine Foundation scores 95 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Blue Marine Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Blue Marine Foundation. 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 Blue Marine Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 92% of Blue Marine Foundation'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 Blue Marine Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 8% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 11% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Blue Marine Foundation. Blue Marine Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 11 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 Blue Marine Foundation receive? +
Blue Marine Foundation reported £13m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Blue Marine Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Blue Marine Foundation based? +
Blue Marine Foundation's registered contact address is in London (WC2R 1LA). It tells the regulator it operates in Devon, Dorset, Hampshire, Belize, Chile, Maldives, with a focus on animals.
How much is Blue Marine Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Blue Marine Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 11 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 Blue Marine Foundation's money come from? +
Blue Marine Foundation reported £13m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £12m (89%), trading and fundraising events £1.3m (10%), investments £99k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Blue Marine Foundation? +
The register records Blue Marine Foundation 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 Blue Marine Foundation's trustees paid? +
Blue Marine Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Blue Marine Foundation registered as a charity? +
Blue Marine Foundation was entered on the register on 30 July 2010. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07176743).
How does CharityCompare score Blue Marine Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Blue Marine Foundation'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 Blue Marine Foundation'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.