Common questions about Smart Works Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Smart Works Charity a good charity? +
Smart Works Charity scores 97 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 87% 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 Smart Works Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Smart Works Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1080609). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1080609&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 Smart Works Charity's charity number? +
Smart Works Charity's charity number is 1080609. 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 Smart Works Charity's charity rating? +
Smart Works Charity scores 97 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Smart Works Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Smart Works Charity. 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 Smart Works Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 87% of Smart Works Charity'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 Smart Works Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 13% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 13% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Smart Works Charity. Smart Works Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Smart Works Charity receive? +
Smart Works Charity reported £4.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Smart Works Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-26). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Smart Works Charity based? +
Smart Works Charity's registered contact address is in London (N1 7BJ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on education.
How much is Smart Works Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Smart Works Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Smart Works Charity's money come from? +
Smart Works Charity reported £4.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £3.7m (78%), charitable activities £1m (22%), investments £18k (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Smart Works Charity? +
The register records Smart Works Charity 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 Smart Works Charity's trustees paid? +
Smart Works Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Smart Works Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Smart Works Charity: Dress for Success (London); Dress for Success London.
When was Smart Works Charity registered as a charity? +
Smart Works Charity was entered on the register on 8 May 2000. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03870671).
How does CharityCompare score Smart Works Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Smart Works Charity'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 Smart Works Charity'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.