Common questions about Girl Effect's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Girl Effect a good charity? +
Girl Effect scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Girl Effect a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Girl Effect as a registered charity (charity number 1141155). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1141155&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 Girl Effect's charity number? +
Girl Effect's charity number is 1141155. 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 Girl Effect's charity rating? +
Girl Effect scores 70 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 Girl Effect have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Girl Effect. 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 Girl Effect? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of Girl Effect'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 Girl Effect's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 2% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Girl Effect. Girl Effect's annual return for the year ending 31 May 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Girl Effect receive? +
Girl Effect reported £16m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Girl Effect's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-03-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Girl Effect based? +
Girl Effect's registered contact address is in London (W1F 8WE). It tells the regulator it operates in Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, India, Indonesia, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Girl Effect's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Girl Effect's annual return for the year ending 31 May 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Girl Effect's money come from? +
Girl Effect reported £16m total income for the year ending 31 May 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £14m (89%), investments £1.8m (11%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Girl Effect? +
The register does not record Girl Effect as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Girl Effect's trustees paid? +
Girl Effect's annual return for the year ending 31 May 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Girl Effect previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Girl Effect: Girl Hub.
When was Girl Effect registered as a charity? +
Girl Effect was entered on the register on 4 April 2011. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07516619).
How does CharityCompare score Girl Effect? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Girl Effect'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 Girl Effect'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.