Common questions about Exmoor Calvert Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Exmoor Calvert Trust a good charity? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust scores 94 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 95% 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Exmoor Calvert Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1005776). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1005776&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 Exmoor Calvert Trust's charity number? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust's charity number is 1005776. 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust's charity rating? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust scores 94 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Exmoor Calvert 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 95% of Exmoor Calvert 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 6% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Exmoor Calvert Trust. Exmoor Calvert Trust's annual return for the year ending 30 November 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (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 Exmoor Calvert Trust receive? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust reported £2.4m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Exmoor Calvert Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-03-27). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Exmoor Calvert Trust based? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust's registered contact address is in Exeter (EX31 4SJ). It tells the regulator it operates in Devon, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is Exmoor Calvert Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Exmoor Calvert Trust's annual return for the year ending 30 November 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £70,001–£80,000 (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 Exmoor Calvert Trust's money come from? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust reported £2.4m total income for the year ending 30 November 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £1.1m (47%), donations and legacies £1.1m (46%), other income £155k (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £73k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Exmoor Calvert Trust? +
The register records Exmoor Calvert Trust 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust's trustees paid? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust's annual return for the year ending 30 November 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Exmoor Calvert Trust registered as a charity? +
Exmoor Calvert Trust was entered on the register on 12 November 1991. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02637448).
How does CharityCompare score Exmoor Calvert Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Exmoor Calvert 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 Exmoor Calvert Trust'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.