Common questions about Helpforce Community's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Helpforce Community a good charity? +
Helpforce Community scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% 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 Helpforce Community a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Helpforce Community as a registered charity (charity number 1199824). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1199824&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 Helpforce Community's charity number? +
Helpforce Community's charity number is 1199824. 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 Helpforce Community's charity rating? +
Helpforce Community scores 75 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 Helpforce Community have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Helpforce Community. 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 Helpforce Community? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of Helpforce Community'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 Helpforce Community's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 6% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Helpforce Community. Helpforce Community's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Helpforce Community receive? +
Helpforce Community reported £1.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Helpforce Community's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Helpforce Community based? +
Helpforce Community's registered contact address is in London (WC2R 1LA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland, with a focus on disability.
How much is Helpforce Community's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Helpforce Community's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Helpforce Community's money come from? +
Helpforce Community reported £1.6m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.3m (78%), charitable activities £285k (17%), investments £70k (4%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Helpforce Community? +
The register does not record Helpforce Community as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Helpforce Community's trustees paid? +
Helpforce Community'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 Helpforce Community registered as a charity? +
Helpforce Community was entered on the register on 27 July 2022. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 10919485).
How does CharityCompare score Helpforce Community? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Helpforce Community'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 Helpforce Community'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.