Common questions about Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited a good charity? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited scores 98 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 84% 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited as a registered charity (charity number 210531). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=210531&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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's charity number? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's charity number is 210531. 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's charity rating? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited scores 98 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited. 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 84% of Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited'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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 23% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited. Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited receive? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited reported £2.9m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-18). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited based? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's registered contact address is in Leicester (LE3 5DE). It tells the regulator it operates in Leicestershire, Leicester City, Rutland, with a focus on animals.
How much is Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's money come from? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited reported £2.9m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.8m (62%), charitable activities £829k (29%), investments £136k (5%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £291k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited? +
The register records Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited 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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's trustees paid? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited registered as a charity? +
Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited was entered on the register on 30 November 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00561833).
How does CharityCompare score Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited'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 Leicestershire and Rutland Wildlife Trust Limited'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.