Common questions about Campaign to Protect Rural England's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Campaign to Protect Rural England a good charity? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England scores 95 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 80% 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Campaign to Protect Rural England as a registered charity (charity number 1089685). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1089685&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 Campaign to Protect Rural England's charity number? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England's charity number is 1089685. 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England's charity rating? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Campaign to Protect Rural England. 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 80% of Campaign to Protect Rural England'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 Campaign to Protect Rural England's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 20% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 22% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Campaign to Protect Rural England. Campaign to Protect Rural England's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England receive? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England reported £6.8m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Campaign to Protect Rural England's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-09-04). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Campaign to Protect Rural England based? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England's registered contact address is in London (N1 7NH). It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on environment.
How much is Campaign to Protect Rural England's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Campaign to Protect Rural England's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England's money come from? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England reported £4.3m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.3m (98%), investments £67k (2%), trading and fundraising events £3,000 (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.8m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Campaign to Protect Rural England? +
The register records Campaign to Protect Rural England 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 Campaign to Protect Rural England's trustees paid? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Campaign to Protect Rural England registered as a charity? +
Campaign to Protect Rural England was entered on the register on 7 December 2001. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04302973).
How does CharityCompare score Campaign to Protect Rural England? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Campaign to Protect Rural England'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 Campaign to Protect Rural England's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.