Common questions about Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Chance to Shine Foundation LTD a good charity? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 84% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Chance to Shine Foundation LTD as a registered charity (charity number 1123385). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1123385&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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's charity number? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's charity number is 1123385. 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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's charity rating? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD scores 79 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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Chance to Shine Foundation LTD. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Chance to Shine Foundation LTD? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 84% of Chance to Shine Foundation LTD'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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 16% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 17% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Chance to Shine Foundation LTD. Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD receive? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD reported £7.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-05-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Chance to Shine Foundation LTD based? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's registered contact address is in London (WC1V 6PL). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, with a focus on disability.
How much is Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's money come from? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD reported £7.6m total income for the year ending 30 September 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £7.1m (93%), trading and fundraising events £358k (5%), investments £154k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £142k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Chance to Shine Foundation LTD? +
The register records Chance to Shine Foundation LTD 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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's trustees paid? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Chance to Shine Foundation LTD previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Chance to Shine Foundation LTD: The Cricket Foundation.
When was Chance to Shine Foundation LTD registered as a charity? +
Chance to Shine Foundation LTD was entered on the register on 31 March 2008. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06441426).
How does CharityCompare score Chance to Shine Foundation LTD? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Chance to Shine Foundation LTD'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 Chance to Shine Foundation LTD'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.