Common questions about Services For Education Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Services For Education Limited a good charity? +
Services For Education Limited scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) 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 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 Services For Education Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Services For Education Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1148848). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1148848&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 Services For Education Limited's charity number? +
Services For Education Limited's charity number is 1148848. 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 Services For Education Limited's charity rating? +
Services For Education Limited 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 Services For Education Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Services For Education Limited. 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 Services For Education Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of Services For Education Limited'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 Services For Education Limited'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 0% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Services For Education Limited. Services For Education Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 5 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 Services For Education Limited receive? +
Services For Education Limited reported £7.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Services For Education Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-06-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Services For Education Limited based? +
Services For Education Limited's registered contact address is in Birmingham (B7 4AX). It tells the regulator it operates in Birmingham City, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is Services For Education Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Services For Education Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 5 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 Services For Education Limited's money come from? +
Services For Education Limited reported £7.2m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £5m (69%), donations and legacies £2.1m (29%), investments £128k (2%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Services For Education Limited? +
The register records Services For Education Limited 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 Services For Education Limited's trustees paid? +
Services For Education Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Services For Education Limited previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Services For Education Limited: S4e Limited.
When was Services For Education Limited registered as a charity? +
Services For Education Limited was entered on the register on 5 September 2012. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07739831).
How does CharityCompare score Services For Education Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Services For Education Limited'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 Services For Education Limited'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.