Common questions about Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families a good charity? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) 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 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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families as a registered charity (charity number 1188350). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1188350&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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's charity number? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's charity number is 1188350. 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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's charity rating? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families 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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families. 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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families'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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families'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 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families. Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families receive? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families reported £7.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-08-15). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families based? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's registered contact address is in London (SW1H 0QS). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on disability.
How much is Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's money come from? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families reported £7.2m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £7m (96%), trading and fundraising events £183k (3%), investments £61k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families? +
The register does not record Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's trustees paid? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits. Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families: What Works for Children's Social Care; What Works for Early Intervention and Children's Social Care.
When was Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families registered as a charity? +
Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families was entered on the register on 4 March 2020. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 12136703).
How does CharityCompare score Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families'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 Foundations - What Works Centre for Children and Families'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.