Pro Bono Economics

Pro Bono Economics scores 64 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 81% 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.

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Pro Bono Economics scores 64 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Pro Bono Economics. 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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 81% of Pro Bono Economics'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 19% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 20% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Pro Bono Economics. Pro Bono Economics's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

Pro Bono Economics reported £1.4m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-25). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Pro Bono Economics's registered contact address is in London (SE1 6FE). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on education.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Pro Bono Economics's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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.

Pro Bono Economics reported £1.4m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.3m (88%), charitable activities £163k (11%), investments £5,873 (0%).

The register records Pro Bono Economics 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.

Pro Bono Economics's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

The register lists this previous name for Pro Bono Economics: Pro Bond Economics.

Pro Bono Economics was entered on the register on 15 July 2009. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06849844).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Pro Bono Economics'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 Pro Bono Economics'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.