Common questions about Redwings Horse Sanctuary's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Redwings Horse Sanctuary a good charity? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary scores 76 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 83% 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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Redwings Horse Sanctuary as a registered charity (charity number 1068911). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1068911&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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary's charity number? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary's charity number is 1068911. 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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary's charity rating? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary 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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Redwings Horse Sanctuary. 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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 83% of Redwings Horse Sanctuary'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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 17% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 17% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Redwings Horse Sanctuary. Redwings Horse Sanctuary's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary receive? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary reported £13m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Redwings Horse Sanctuary's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Redwings Horse Sanctuary based? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary's registered contact address is in Norwich (NR15 1SP). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, with a focus on animals.
How much is Redwings Horse Sanctuary's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Redwings Horse Sanctuary's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary's money come from? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary reported £13m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £12m (90%), charitable activities £750k (6%), trading and fundraising events £247k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £9.3m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Redwings Horse Sanctuary? +
The register records Redwings Horse Sanctuary 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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary's trustees paid? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Redwings Horse Sanctuary registered as a charity? +
Redwings Horse Sanctuary was entered on the register on 27 March 1998. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03524502).
How does CharityCompare score Redwings Horse Sanctuary? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Redwings Horse Sanctuary'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 Redwings Horse Sanctuary'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.