Common questions about Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust a good charity? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust scores 75 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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1103465). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1103465&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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's charity number? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's charity number is 1103465. 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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's charity rating? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust scores 75 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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust. 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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 89% of Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust'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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 6% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 6% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust. Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust receive? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust reported £24m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust based? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's registered contact address is in Doncaster (DN4 7PD). It tells the regulator it operates in Doncaster, with a focus on sport.
How much is Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's money come from? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust reported £24m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £14m (57%), other income £6.1m (25%), trading and fundraising events £4.2m (17%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust? +
The register does not record Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's trustees paid? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust: Doncaster Dome Leisure Trust.
When was Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust registered as a charity? +
Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust was entered on the register on 28 April 2004. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04410993).
How does CharityCompare score Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust'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 Doncaster Culture and Leisure Trust'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.