Common questions about Revitalise Respite Holidays's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Revitalise Respite Holidays a good charity? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays scores 96 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 80% 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 Revitalise Respite Holidays a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Revitalise Respite Holidays as a registered charity (charity number 295072). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=295072&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 Revitalise Respite Holidays's charity number? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays's charity number is 295072. 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 Revitalise Respite Holidays's charity rating? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays scores 96 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Revitalise Respite Holidays have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Revitalise Respite Holidays. 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 Revitalise Respite Holidays? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 80% of Revitalise Respite Holidays'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 Revitalise Respite Holidays's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Revitalise Respite Holidays. Revitalise Respite Holidays's annual return for the year ending 31 January 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Revitalise Respite Holidays receive? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays reported £8.3m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Revitalise Respite Holidays's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-25). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Revitalise Respite Holidays based? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on disability.
How much is Revitalise Respite Holidays's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Revitalise Respite Holidays's annual return for the year ending 31 January 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Revitalise Respite Holidays's money come from? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays reported £8.3m total income for the year ending 31 January 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £5.1m (61%), donations and legacies £1.6m (19%), trading and fundraising events £1.6m (19%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Revitalise Respite Holidays? +
The register records Revitalise Respite Holidays 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 Revitalise Respite Holidays's trustees paid? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays's annual return for the year ending 31 January 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Revitalise Respite Holidays previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Revitalise Respite Holidays: Vitalise; Winged Fellowship Trust.
When was Revitalise Respite Holidays registered as a charity? +
Revitalise Respite Holidays was entered on the register on 20 November 1986. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02044219).
How does CharityCompare score Revitalise Respite Holidays? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Revitalise Respite Holidays'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 Revitalise Respite Holidays'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.