Common questions about Cogent Skills Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Cogent Skills Limited a good charity? +
Cogent Skills Limited scores 67 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-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 Cogent Skills Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Cogent Skills Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1166082). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1166082&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 Cogent Skills Limited's charity number? +
Cogent Skills Limited's charity number is 1166082. 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 Cogent Skills Limited's charity rating? +
Cogent Skills Limited scores 67 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 Cogent Skills Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Cogent Skills Limited. 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 Cogent Skills Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Cogent Skills Limited's total spending went to charitable activities (2-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 Cogent Skills Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 0% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Cogent Skills Limited. Cogent Skills Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 15 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.
How much income does Cogent Skills Limited receive? +
Cogent Skills Limited reported £20m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Cogent Skills Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-11-04). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Cogent Skills Limited based? +
Cogent Skills Limited's registered contact address is in Warrington (WA1 1GG). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on education.
How much is Cogent Skills Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Cogent Skills Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 15 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.
Where does Cogent Skills Limited's money come from? +
Cogent Skills Limited reported £20m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £20m (100%), investments £76k (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Cogent Skills Limited? +
The register records Cogent Skills Limited 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 Cogent Skills Limited's trustees paid? +
Cogent Skills Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was Cogent Skills Limited registered as a charity? +
Cogent Skills Limited was entered on the register on 15 March 2016. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09361100).
How does CharityCompare score Cogent Skills Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Cogent Skills Limited'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 Cogent Skills Limited'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.