Common questions about Priors Court Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Priors Court Foundation a good charity? +
Priors Court Foundation scores 76 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% 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.
Is Priors Court Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Priors Court Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1070227). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1070227&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 Priors Court Foundation's charity number? +
Priors Court Foundation's charity number is 1070227. 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 Priors Court Foundation's charity rating? +
Priors Court Foundation scores 76 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 Priors Court Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Priors Court Foundation. 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.
How much of my donation reaches Priors Court Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of Priors Court Foundation'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 Priors Court Foundation's overheads? +
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 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Priors Court Foundation. Priors Court Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Priors Court Foundation receive? +
Priors Court Foundation reported £26m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Priors Court Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-04-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Priors Court Foundation based? +
Priors Court Foundation's registered contact address is in Reading (RG18 9NU). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on disability.
How much is Priors Court Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Priors Court Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Priors Court Foundation's money come from? +
Priors Court Foundation reported £26m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £25m (99%), donations and legacies £298k (1%), trading and fundraising events £8,710 (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Priors Court Foundation? +
The register records Priors Court Foundation 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 Priors Court Foundation's trustees paid? +
Priors Court Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Priors Court Foundation registered as a charity? +
Priors Court Foundation was entered on the register on 26 June 1998. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03583324).
How does CharityCompare score Priors Court Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Priors Court Foundation'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 Priors Court Foundation'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.