Common questions about Environmental Defense Fund UK's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Environmental Defense Fund UK a good charity? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK scores 33 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Its recent filings do not disclose a charitable-activities spend split 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 Environmental Defense Fund UK a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Environmental Defense Fund UK as a registered charity (charity number 1164661). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1164661&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 Environmental Defense Fund UK's charity number? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK's charity number is 1164661. 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 Environmental Defense Fund UK's charity rating? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK scores 33 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Environmental Defense Fund UK have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Environmental Defense Fund UK. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Environmental Defense Fund UK? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK does not disclose a charitable-activities spend split in its recent UK regulator filings, so there is no official figure for how much of a donation reaches the cause. CharityCompare reports this as "not disclosed" rather than assuming a number.
What are Environmental Defense Fund UK'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 (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Environmental Defense Fund UK. Environmental Defense Fund UK's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 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 Environmental Defense Fund UK receive? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK reported £1.4m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Environmental Defense Fund UK's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-08-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Environmental Defense Fund UK based? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK's registered contact address is in London (EC1V 9DD). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Austria, Belgium, Germany, Portugal, Spain, with a focus on environment.
How much is Environmental Defense Fund UK's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Environmental Defense Fund UK's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 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 Environmental Defense Fund UK's money come from? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK reported £1.4m total income for the year ending 30 September 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £1.4m (100%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Environmental Defense Fund UK? +
The register records Environmental Defense Fund UK 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 Environmental Defense Fund UK's trustees paid? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Environmental Defense Fund UK previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Environmental Defense Fund UK: Environmental Defence Fund Europe/UK; Environmental Defense Fund LTD; Environmental Defense Fund Europe.
When was Environmental Defense Fund UK registered as a charity? +
Environmental Defense Fund UK was entered on the register on 2 December 2015. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09217493).
How does CharityCompare score Environmental Defense Fund UK? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Environmental Defense Fund UK'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 Environmental Defense Fund UK'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.