Common questions about Disasters Emergency Committee's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Disasters Emergency Committee a good charity? +
Disasters Emergency Committee scores 84 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 89% 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 Disasters Emergency Committee a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Disasters Emergency Committee as a registered charity (charity number 1062638). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1062638&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 Disasters Emergency Committee's charity number? +
Disasters Emergency Committee's charity number is 1062638. 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 Disasters Emergency Committee's charity rating? +
Disasters Emergency Committee scores 84 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 Disasters Emergency Committee have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Disasters Emergency Committee. 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 Disasters Emergency Committee? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 89% of Disasters Emergency Committee'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 Disasters Emergency Committee's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 11% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 11% of expenditure (2024–2026, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Disasters Emergency Committee. Disasters Emergency Committee's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Disasters Emergency Committee receive? +
Disasters Emergency Committee reported £41m total income in its 2026 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Disasters Emergency Committee's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-09-01). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Disasters Emergency Committee based? +
Disasters Emergency Committee's registered contact address is in London (N1 7GT). It tells the regulator it operates in Camden, with a focus on disaster relief.
How much is Disasters Emergency Committee's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Disasters Emergency Committee's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Disasters Emergency Committee's money come from? +
Disasters Emergency Committee reported £41m total income for the year ending 31 March 2026. The largest sources were charitable activities £37m (90%), donations and legacies £2m (5%), investments £2m (5%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £377k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Disasters Emergency Committee? +
The register records Disasters Emergency Committee 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 Disasters Emergency Committee's trustees paid? +
Disasters Emergency Committee's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Disasters Emergency Committee registered as a charity? +
Disasters Emergency Committee was entered on the register on 4 June 1997. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03356526).
How does CharityCompare score Disasters Emergency Committee? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Disasters Emergency Committee'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 Disasters Emergency Committee's most recent accounts cover 2026. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.