Common questions about Safelives's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Safelives a good charity? +
Safelives scores 81 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 97% 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 Safelives a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Safelives as a registered charity (charity number 1106864). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1106864&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 Safelives's charity number? +
Safelives's charity number is 1106864. 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 Safelives's charity rating? +
Safelives scores 81 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 Safelives have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Safelives. 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 Safelives? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 97% of Safelives'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 Safelives's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 3% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Safelives. Safelives's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 7 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 Safelives receive? +
Safelives reported £11m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Safelives's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-04-25). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Safelives based? +
Safelives's registered contact address is in Bristol (BS1 2NT). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on education.
How much is Safelives's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Safelives's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 7 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 Safelives's money come from? +
Safelives reported £11m total income for the year ending 30 June 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £9.8m (92%), donations and legacies £749k (7%), investments £109k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Safelives? +
The register records Safelives 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 Safelives's trustees paid? +
Safelives's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee; payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was Safelives previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Safelives: Co-Ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse; Co-Ordinated Response and Advocacy Resource Group.
When was Safelives registered as a charity? +
Safelives was entered on the register on 18 November 2004. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05203237).
How does CharityCompare score Safelives? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Safelives'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 Safelives'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.