Common questions about Halas Homes's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Halas Homes a good charity? +
Halas Homes scores 73 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-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 Halas Homes a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Halas Homes as a registered charity (charity number 701912). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=701912&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 Halas Homes's charity number? +
Halas Homes's charity number is 701912. 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 Halas Homes's charity rating? +
Halas Homes scores 73 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 Halas Homes have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Halas Homes. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Halas Homes? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Halas Homes's total spending went to charitable activities (2-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 Halas Homes'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 Halas Homes. Halas Homes's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Halas Homes receive? +
Halas Homes reported £2.1m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Halas Homes's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-04-15). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Halas Homes based? +
Halas Homes's registered contact address is in Birmingham (B63 4JX). It tells the regulator it operates in Dudley, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is Halas Homes's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Halas Homes's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Halas Homes's money come from? +
Halas Homes reported £2.1m total income for the year ending 30 September 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £2.1m (98%), donations and legacies £32k (2%), trading and fundraising events £3,511 (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Halas Homes? +
The register does not record Halas Homes as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Halas Homes's trustees paid? +
Halas Homes's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Halas Homes previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Halas Homes: Halesowen, Stourbridge and District Society for Mentally Handicapped Children and Adults.
When was Halas Homes registered as a charity? +
Halas Homes was entered on the register on 18 August 1989. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02236170).
How does CharityCompare score Halas Homes? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Halas Homes'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 Halas Homes'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.