Common questions about Homeless Link's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Homeless Link a good charity? +
Homeless Link scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% 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 Homeless Link a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Homeless Link as a registered charity (charity number 1089173). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1089173&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 Homeless Link's charity number? +
Homeless Link's charity number is 1089173. 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 Homeless Link's charity rating? +
Homeless Link scores 79 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 Homeless Link have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Homeless Link. 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 Homeless Link? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Homeless Link'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 Homeless Link'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 Homeless Link. Homeless Link's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee 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 Homeless Link receive? +
Homeless Link reported £10m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Homeless Link's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Homeless Link based? +
Homeless Link's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is Homeless Link's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Homeless Link's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee 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 Homeless Link's money come from? +
Homeless Link reported £10m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £9.4m (93%), other income £470k (5%), donations and legacies £148k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Homeless Link? +
The register does not record Homeless Link as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Homeless Link's trustees paid? +
Homeless Link's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Homeless Link registered as a charity? +
Homeless Link was entered on the register on 1 November 2001. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04313826).
How does CharityCompare score Homeless Link? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Homeless Link'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 Homeless Link'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.