Common questions about Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Seven Spikes Relief Foundation a good charity? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation scores 67 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 89% 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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Seven Spikes Relief Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1170486). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1170486&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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's charity number? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's charity number is 1170486. 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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's charity rating? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation scores 67 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Seven Spikes Relief Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Seven Spikes Relief Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 89% of Seven Spikes Relief Foundation'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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 8% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Seven Spikes Relief Foundation. Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Seven Spikes Relief Foundation receive? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation reported £1.7m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-07-03). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Seven Spikes Relief Foundation based? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's registered contact address is in London (E18 2PA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Bangladesh, Egypt, Kenya, Occupied Palestinian Territories, Turkey, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. 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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's money come from? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation reported £1.7m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.7m (99%), charitable activities £13k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Seven Spikes Relief Foundation? +
The register records Seven Spikes Relief Foundation 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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's trustees paid? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Seven Spikes Relief Foundation registered as a charity? +
Seven Spikes Relief Foundation was entered on the register on 30 November 2016.
How does CharityCompare score Seven Spikes Relief Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Seven Spikes Relief Foundation'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 Seven Spikes Relief Foundation'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.