Common questions about Restless Development's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Restless Development a good charity? +
Restless Development scores 84 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 88% 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 Restless Development a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Restless Development as a registered charity (charity number 1127488). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1127488&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 Restless Development's charity number? +
Restless Development's charity number is 1127488. 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 Restless Development's charity rating? +
Restless Development scores 84 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 Restless Development have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Restless Development. 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 Restless Development? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 88% of Restless Development'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 Restless Development's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 12% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 12% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Restless Development. Restless Development's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Restless Development receive? +
Restless Development reported £8.4m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Restless Development's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-07-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Restless Development based? +
Restless Development's registered contact address is in London (WC2R 1LA). It tells the regulator it operates in India, Nepal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Restless Development's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Restless Development's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Restless Development's money come from? +
Restless Development reported £8.4m total income for the year ending 30 September 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £6.8m (81%), donations and legacies £1.6m (19%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Restless Development? +
The register records Restless Development 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 Restless Development's trustees paid? +
Restless Development's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Restless Development previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Restless Development: Students' Partnership Worldwide.
When was Restless Development registered as a charity? +
Restless Development was entered on the register on 13 January 2009. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06741123).
How does CharityCompare score Restless Development? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Restless Development'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 Restless Development'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.