Christian Aid

Christian Aid scores 80 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 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 Christian Aid as a registered charity (charity number 1105851). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1105851&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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Christian Aid scores 80 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Christian Aid. 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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 84% of Christian Aid'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.

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 Christian Aid. Christian Aid's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 38 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

Christian Aid reported £71m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-17). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Christian Aid's registered contact address is in London (SE1 7RL). It tells the regulator it operates in Afghanistan, Angola, Bangladesh, Bolivia, Brazil, Burkina Faso, with a focus on international aid.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Christian Aid's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 38 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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.

Christian Aid reported £71m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £52m (73%), charitable activities £18m (26%), trading and fundraising events £600k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £15m.

The register records Christian Aid 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.

Christian Aid's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Christian Aid was entered on the register on 13 September 2004. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05171525).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Christian Aid'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 Christian Aid'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.