Common questions about Poor Servants of the Mother of God's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Poor Servants of the Mother of God a good charity? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God scores 90 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Poor Servants of the Mother of God as a registered charity (charity number 227931). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=227931&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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God's charity number? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God's charity number is 227931. 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God's charity rating? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God scores 90 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Poor Servants of the Mother of God. 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of Poor Servants of the Mother of God'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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 2% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Poor Servants of the Mother of God. Poor Servants of the Mother of God's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God receive? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God reported £24m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Poor Servants of the Mother of God's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-12). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Poor Servants of the Mother of God based? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God's registered contact address is in London (SW15 4JA). It tells the regulator it operates in England, Italy, Kenya, Venezuela, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Poor Servants of the Mother of God's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Poor Servants of the Mother of God's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God's money come from? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God reported £24m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £17m (73%), investments £4m (17%), other income £1.7m (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1,432.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Poor Servants of the Mother of God? +
The register records Poor Servants of the Mother of God 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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God's trustees paid? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Poor Servants of the Mother of God registered as a charity? +
Poor Servants of the Mother of God was entered on the register on 3 December 1963.
How does CharityCompare score Poor Servants of the Mother of God? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Poor Servants of the Mother of God'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 Poor Servants of the Mother of God'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.