Common questions about Citizens UK Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Citizens UK Charity a good charity? +
Citizens UK Charity scores 86 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% 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 Citizens UK Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Citizens UK Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1107264). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1107264&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 Citizens UK Charity's charity number? +
Citizens UK Charity's charity number is 1107264. 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 Citizens UK Charity's charity rating? +
Citizens UK Charity scores 86 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 Citizens UK Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Citizens UK Charity. 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 Citizens UK Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of Citizens UK Charity'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 Citizens UK Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Citizens UK Charity. Citizens UK Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 31 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Citizens UK Charity receive? +
Citizens UK Charity reported £12m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Citizens UK Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-15). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Citizens UK Charity based? +
Citizens UK Charity's registered contact address is in London (E1 2FJ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Citizens UK Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Citizens UK Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 31 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Citizens UK Charity's money come from? +
Citizens UK Charity reported £12m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £5.8m (48%), trading and fundraising events £4.6m (38%), charitable activities £1.4m (12%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Citizens UK Charity? +
The register records Citizens UK Charity 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 Citizens UK Charity's trustees paid? +
Citizens UK Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Citizens UK Charity previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Citizens UK Charity: The Citizen Organising Foundation.
When was Citizens UK Charity registered as a charity? +
Citizens UK Charity was entered on the register on 14 December 2004. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05268071).
How does CharityCompare score Citizens UK Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Citizens UK Charity'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 Citizens UK Charity'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.