Common questions about Kids for Kids's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Kids for Kids a good charity? +
Kids for Kids scores 92 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 74% 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 Kids for Kids a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Kids for Kids as a registered charity (charity number 1100045). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1100045&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 Kids for Kids's charity number? +
Kids for Kids's charity number is 1100045. 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 Kids for Kids's charity rating? +
Kids for Kids scores 92 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 Kids for Kids have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Kids for Kids. 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 Kids for Kids? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 74% of Kids for Kids'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 Kids for Kids's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 17% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 18% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Kids for Kids. Kids for Kids's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Kids for Kids receive? +
Kids for Kids reported £666k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Kids for Kids's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-03). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Kids for Kids based? +
Kids for Kids's registered contact address is in Reigate (RH10 1HT). It tells the regulator it operates in Surrey, Sudan, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Kids for Kids's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Kids for Kids's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Kids for Kids's money come from? +
Kids for Kids reported £666k total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £582k (87%), trading and fundraising events £42k (6%), investments £42k (6%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £82k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Kids for Kids? +
The register records Kids for Kids 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 Kids for Kids's trustees paid? +
Kids for Kids's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits. Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was Kids for Kids registered as a charity? +
Kids for Kids was entered on the register on 14 October 2003. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04607292).
How does CharityCompare score Kids for Kids? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Kids for Kids'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 Kids for Kids'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.