Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust scores 85 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 95% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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.

The register data used for this profile lists Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust as a registered charity (charity number 293188). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=293188&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.

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Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust scores 85 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 95% of Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust'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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 17% of expenditure (2024–2026, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust. Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust reported £4.6m total income in its 2026 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.

Filing status: late (last filing 2026-08-21). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust's registered contact address is in Portsmouth (PO1 3LJ). It tells the regulator it operates in Hampshire, Portsmouth City, with a focus on heritage.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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.

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust reported £4.6m total income for the year ending 31 March 2026. The largest sources were charitable activities £3.6m (79%), donations and legacies £721k (16%), investments £255k (6%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £20k.

The register records Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust 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.

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.

The register lists these previous names for Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust: Portsmouth Naval Base Property Trust; Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust Limited.

Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust was entered on the register on 12 December 1985. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01959490).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust'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.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Portsmouth Historic Quarter Trust's most recent accounts cover 2026. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.