Common questions about Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide a good charity? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide scores 87 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 92% 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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide as a registered charity (charity number 1070896). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1070896&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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's charity number? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's charity number is 1070896. 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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's charity rating? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide scores 87 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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide. 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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 92% of Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide'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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 8% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 11% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide. Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide receive? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide reported £5.3m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-15). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide based? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's registered contact address is in Warrington (WA1 1UP). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on mental health.
How much is Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's money come from? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide reported £5.3m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £2.1m (39%), donations and legacies £1.7m (32%), trading and fundraising events £1.5m (28%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £110k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide? +
The register records Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide 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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's trustees paid? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide: Papyrus (Prevention of Suicides).
When was Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide registered as a charity? +
Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide was entered on the register on 6 August 1998. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03555482).
How does CharityCompare score Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide'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 Papyrus Prevention of Young Suicide'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.