Common questions about Nabs's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Nabs a good charity? +
Nabs scores 68 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 40% 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 Nabs a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Nabs as a registered charity (charity number 1070556). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1070556&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 Nabs's charity number? +
Nabs's charity number is 1070556. 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 Nabs's charity rating? +
Nabs scores 68 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Nabs have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Nabs. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Nabs? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 40% of Nabs'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 Nabs's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 60% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 73% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Nabs. Nabs's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Nabs receive? +
Nabs reported £2.9m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Nabs's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-08-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Nabs based? +
Nabs's registered contact address is in London (WC2B 5LW). It tells the regulator it operates in England, Scotland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Nabs's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Nabs's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Nabs's money come from? +
Nabs reported £2.9m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.1m (72%), trading and fundraising events £783k (27%), investments £22k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Nabs? +
The register records Nabs 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 Nabs's trustees paid? +
Nabs's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Nabs registered as a charity? +
Nabs was entered on the register on 16 July 1998. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03588945).
How does CharityCompare score Nabs? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Nabs'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 Nabs's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.