Common questions about Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Royal British Legion Poppy Factory a good charity? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 75% 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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Royal British Legion Poppy Factory as a registered charity (charity number 225348). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=225348&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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's charity number? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's charity number is 225348. 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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's charity rating? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory scores 80 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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Royal British Legion Poppy Factory. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Royal British Legion Poppy Factory? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 75% of Royal British Legion Poppy Factory'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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 25% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 26% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Royal British Legion Poppy Factory. Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 4 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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory receive? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory reported £4.8m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-05-20). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Royal British Legion Poppy Factory based? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's registered contact address is in London (TW10 6UR). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 4 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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's money come from? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory reported £4.8m total income for the year ending 30 September 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £2m (42%), investments £1.7m (35%), donations and legacies £995k (21%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Royal British Legion Poppy Factory? +
The register records Royal British Legion Poppy Factory 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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's trustees paid? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Royal British Legion Poppy Factory previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Royal British Legion Poppy Factory: Royal British Legion Poppy Factory Limited.
When was Royal British Legion Poppy Factory registered as a charity? +
Royal British Legion Poppy Factory was entered on the register on 11 May 1964. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00204405).
How does CharityCompare score Royal British Legion Poppy Factory? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Royal British Legion Poppy Factory'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 Royal British Legion Poppy Factory'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.