Common questions about St Monica Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is St Monica Trust a good charity? +
St Monica Trust scores 78 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% 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 St Monica Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists St Monica Trust as a registered charity (charity number 202151). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=202151&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 St Monica Trust's charity number? +
St Monica Trust's charity number is 202151. 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 St Monica Trust's charity rating? +
St Monica Trust scores 78 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 St Monica Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for St Monica Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches St Monica Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of St Monica Trust'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 St Monica Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at St Monica Trust. St Monica Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 29 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does St Monica Trust receive? +
St Monica Trust reported £54m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are St Monica Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-08-11). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is St Monica Trust based? +
St Monica Trust's registered contact address is in Bristol (BS9 3UN). It tells the regulator it operates in Gloucestershire, Somerset, Wiltshire, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, South Gloucestershire, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is St Monica Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. St Monica Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 29 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (2 employees). 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 St Monica Trust's money come from? +
St Monica Trust reported £54m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £43m (81%), investments £10m (19%), donations and legacies £10k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £5,000.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to St Monica Trust? +
The register does not record St Monica Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are St Monica Trust's trustees paid? +
St Monica Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was St Monica Trust previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for St Monica Trust: Henry Herbert Wills for Chronic or Incurable Sufferers Which Charity Includes the St Monica Home.
When was St Monica Trust registered as a charity? +
St Monica Trust was entered on the register on 5 December 1962.
How does CharityCompare score St Monica Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in St Monica Trust'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 St Monica Trust'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.