Common questions about Care South's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Care South a good charity? +
Care South scores 88 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% 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 Care South a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Care South as a registered charity (charity number 1014697). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1014697&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 Care South's charity number? +
Care South's charity number is 1014697. 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 Care South's charity rating? +
Care South scores 88 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 Care South have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Care South. 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 Care South? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Care South'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 Care South'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 Care South. Care South's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 27 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Care South receive? +
Care South reported £63m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Care South's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Care South based? +
Care South's registered contact address is in Bournemouth (BH14 0HU). It tells the regulator it operates in Devon, Dorset, Somerset, West Sussex, Bournemouth, Poole, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is Care South's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Care South's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 27 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Care South's money come from? +
Care South reported £63m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £60m (96%), other income £1.3m (2%), investments £1.1m (2%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Care South? +
The register does not record Care South as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Care South's trustees paid? +
Care South's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Care South registered as a charity? +
Care South was entered on the register on 12 October 1992. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02565033).
How does CharityCompare score Care South? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Care South'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 Care South'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.