Common questions about Ecfr's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Ecfr a good charity? +
Ecfr scores 73 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 (3-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 Ecfr a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Ecfr as a registered charity (charity number 1143536). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1143536&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 Ecfr's charity number? +
Ecfr's charity number is 1143536. 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 Ecfr's charity rating? +
Ecfr scores 73 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 Ecfr have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Ecfr. 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 Ecfr? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Ecfr'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 Ecfr'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 Ecfr. Ecfr's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 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 Ecfr receive? +
Ecfr reported £7.4m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Ecfr's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-08). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Ecfr based? +
Ecfr's registered contact address is in London (EC4R 1BE). It tells the regulator it operates in London, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, with a focus on education.
How much is Ecfr's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Ecfr's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 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 Ecfr's money come from? +
Ecfr reported £7.3m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £7.2m (99%), donations and legacies £101k (1%), other income £5,492 (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Ecfr? +
The register records Ecfr 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 Ecfr's trustees paid? +
Ecfr's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Ecfr registered as a charity? +
Ecfr was entered on the register on 24 August 2011. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07154609).
How does CharityCompare score Ecfr? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Ecfr'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 Ecfr'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.