Common questions about Purposeful Ventures's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Purposeful Ventures a good charity? +
Purposeful Ventures scores 69 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-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 Purposeful Ventures a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Purposeful Ventures as a registered charity (charity number 1204622). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1204622&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 Purposeful Ventures's charity number? +
Purposeful Ventures's charity number is 1204622. 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 Purposeful Ventures's charity rating? +
Purposeful Ventures scores 69 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.
Does Purposeful Ventures have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Purposeful Ventures. 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 Purposeful Ventures? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of Purposeful Ventures's total spending went to charitable activities (2-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 Purposeful Ventures'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 (2024–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Purposeful Ventures. Purposeful Ventures's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 17 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 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 Purposeful Ventures receive? +
Purposeful Ventures reported £17m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: limited history.
Are Purposeful Ventures's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-05-07). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Purposeful Ventures based? +
Purposeful Ventures's registered contact address is in London (W12 7TF). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, United States, Ireland, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is Purposeful Ventures's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Purposeful Ventures's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 17 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 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 Purposeful Ventures's money come from? +
Purposeful Ventures reported £17m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £17m (97%), investments £416k (2%), charitable activities £33k (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Purposeful Ventures? +
The register records Purposeful Ventures 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 Purposeful Ventures's trustees paid? +
Purposeful Ventures's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Purposeful Ventures registered as a charity? +
Purposeful Ventures was entered on the register on 7 September 2023.
How does CharityCompare score Purposeful Ventures? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Purposeful Ventures'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 Purposeful Ventures'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.