Common questions about Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage a good charity? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage scores 86 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% 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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage as a registered charity (charity number 1154230). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1154230&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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's charity number? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's charity number is 1154230. 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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's charity rating? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage scores 86 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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: 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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage'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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage. Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage receive? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage reported £5.4m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-08-17). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage based? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's registered contact address is in London (WC1N 3AX). It tells the regulator it operates in Senegal, India, Kenya, Mexico, City of London, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's money come from? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage reported £5.9m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £5.5m (94%), investments £362k (6%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £7,645.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage? +
The register does not record Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's trustees paid? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage registered as a charity? +
Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage was entered on the register on 17 October 2013. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 08570751).
How does CharityCompare score Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage'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 Girls Not Brides: the Global Partnership to End Child Marriage'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.