Common questions about Goodwill Caravan's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Goodwill Caravan a good charity? +
Goodwill Caravan scores 95 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 86% 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 Goodwill Caravan a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Goodwill Caravan as a registered charity (charity number 1176314). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1176314&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 Goodwill Caravan's charity number? +
Goodwill Caravan's charity number is 1176314. 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 Goodwill Caravan's charity rating? +
Goodwill Caravan scores 95 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 Goodwill Caravan have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Goodwill Caravan. 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 Goodwill Caravan? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 86% of Goodwill Caravan'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 Goodwill Caravan's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 17% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Goodwill Caravan. Goodwill Caravan's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Goodwill Caravan receive? +
Goodwill Caravan reported £783k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Goodwill Caravan's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Goodwill Caravan based? +
Goodwill Caravan's registered contact address is in London (EC1Y 1AA). It tells the regulator it operates in Egypt, Pakistan, United States, England and Wales, France, Greece, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Goodwill Caravan's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Goodwill Caravan's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Goodwill Caravan's money come from? +
Goodwill Caravan reported £783k total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £421k (54%), donations and legacies £335k (43%), other income £26k (3%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Goodwill Caravan? +
The register records Goodwill Caravan 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 Goodwill Caravan's trustees paid? +
Goodwill Caravan's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was Goodwill Caravan registered as a charity? +
Goodwill Caravan was entered on the register on 15 December 2017.
How does CharityCompare score Goodwill Caravan? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Goodwill Caravan'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 Goodwill Caravan'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.