Cat Action Trust 1977

Cat Action Trust 1977 scores 89 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) 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.

The register data used for this profile lists Cat Action Trust 1977 as a registered charity (charity number 801245). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=801245&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.

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Cat Action Trust 1977 scores 89 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.

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Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of Cat Action Trust 1977's total spending went to charitable activities. 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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 6% of expenditure (2025); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Cat Action Trust 1977. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.

Cat Action Trust 1977 reported £1.1m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Cat Action Trust 1977's registered contact address is in London (W8 7ZZ). It tells the regulator it operates in Oldham, Doncaster, Leeds City, Scotland, Jersey, Leicestershire, with a focus on animals.

Cat Action Trust 1977 reported £1.1m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.1m (94%), trading and fundraising events £44k (4%), investments £25k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £915k.

The register records Cat Action Trust 1977 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.

Cat Action Trust 1977's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Cat Action Trust 1977 was entered on the register on 11 April 1989.

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Cat Action Trust 1977'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.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Cat Action Trust 1977'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.