Common questions about Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust a good charity? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust scores 93 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 88% 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust as a registered charity (charity number 201081). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=201081&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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's charity number? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's charity number is 201081. 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's charity rating? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust scores 93 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 88% of Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust'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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 12% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 14% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 employees 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust receive? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust reported £9.9m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-13). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust based? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's registered contact address is in Southampton (SO32 2DP). It tells the regulator it operates in Hampshire, Isle of Wight, with a focus on animals.
How much is Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 employees 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's money come from? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust reported £9.9m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £7.1m (72%), donations and legacies £2.2m (22%), trading and fundraising events £372k (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £878k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust? +
The register records Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust 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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's trustees paid? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust: Hampshire and Isle of Wight Naturalists' Trust Limited; Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust Limited.
When was Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust registered as a charity? +
Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust was entered on the register on 22 December 1961. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00676313).
How does CharityCompare score Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust'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 Hampshire and Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust'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.