Common questions about Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals a good charity? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals scores 73 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 87% 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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals as a registered charity (charity number 313014). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=313014&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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's charity number? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's charity number is 313014. 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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's charity rating? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals scores 73 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 87% of Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals'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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals receive? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals reported £3.3m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals based? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's registered contact address is in London (WC1N 3AX). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (2 employees). 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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's money come from? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals reported £3.3m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £2.4m (74%), investments £579k (18%), donations and legacies £154k (5%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £36k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals? +
The register records Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals 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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's trustees paid? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals: The Library Association.
When was Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals registered as a charity? +
Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals was entered on the register on 5 May 1964. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number RC000780).
How does CharityCompare score Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals'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 Chartered Institute of Library and Information Professionals'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.