Common questions about Save the Children International's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Save the Children International a good charity? +
Save the Children International scores 45 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Save the Children International a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Save the Children International as a registered charity (charity number 1076822). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1076822&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 Save the Children International's charity number? +
Save the Children International's charity number is 1076822. 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 Save the Children International's charity rating? +
Save the Children International scores 45 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Save the Children International have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Save the Children International. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Save the Children International? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Save the Children International'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 Save the Children International's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 1% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Save the Children International. Save the Children International's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 506 employees paid more than £60,000, including 66 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Save the Children International receive? +
Save the Children International reported £1104m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Save the Children International's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Save the Children International based? +
Save the Children International's registered contact address is in London (EC1M 4BL). It tells the regulator it operates in London, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Bolivia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Save the Children International's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Save the Children International's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 506 employees paid more than £60,000, including 66 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Save the Children International's money come from? +
Save the Children International reported £955m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £947m (99%), investments £4.5m (0%), other income £3.4m (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Save the Children International? +
The register does not record Save the Children International as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are Save the Children International's trustees paid? +
Save the Children International's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Save the Children International previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Save the Children International: The International Save the Children Alliance Charity.
When was Save the Children International registered as a charity? +
Save the Children International was entered on the register on 30 July 1999. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03732267).
How does CharityCompare score Save the Children International? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Save the Children International'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 Save the Children International's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.