Common questions about Save the Elephants's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Save the Elephants a good charity? +
Save the Elephants scores 83 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% 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 Save the Elephants a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Save the Elephants as a registered charity (charity number 1118804). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1118804&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 Elephants's charity number? +
Save the Elephants's charity number is 1118804. 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 Elephants's charity rating? +
Save the Elephants scores 83 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 Save the Elephants have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Save the Elephants. 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 Save the Elephants? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of Save the Elephants'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 Elephants's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 7% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Save the Elephants. Save the Elephants's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Elephants receive? +
Save the Elephants reported £5.3m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Save the Elephants's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Save the Elephants based? +
Save the Elephants's registered contact address is in London (EC3V 3QQ). It tells the regulator it operates in City of London, Kenya, Mali, South Africa, with a focus on animals.
How much is Save the Elephants's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Save the Elephants's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Elephants's money come from? +
Save the Elephants reported £5.3m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £5.3m (100%), investments £15k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.6m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Save the Elephants? +
The register records Save the Elephants 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 Save the Elephants's trustees paid? +
Save the Elephants's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Save the Elephants registered as a charity? +
Save the Elephants was entered on the register on 13 April 2007. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06138125).
How does CharityCompare score Save the Elephants? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Save the Elephants'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 Elephants'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.