Common questions about Style Acre's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Style Acre a good charity? +
Style Acre scores 84 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% 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 Style Acre a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Style Acre as a registered charity (charity number 1101626). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1101626&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 Style Acre's charity number? +
Style Acre's charity number is 1101626. 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 Style Acre's charity rating? +
Style Acre scores 84 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 Style Acre have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Style Acre. 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 Style Acre? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of Style Acre'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 Style Acre's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Style Acre. Style Acre's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Style Acre receive? +
Style Acre reported £13m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Style Acre's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Style Acre based? +
Style Acre's registered contact address is in Reading (RG1 4PN). It tells the regulator it operates in Oxfordshire, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Style Acre's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Style Acre's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Style Acre's money come from? +
Style Acre reported £13m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £12m (92%), donations and legacies £482k (4%), other income £450k (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £25k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Style Acre? +
The register records Style Acre 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 Style Acre's trustees paid? +
Style Acre's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Style Acre registered as a charity? +
Style Acre was entered on the register on 20 January 2004. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04906985).
How does CharityCompare score Style Acre? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Style Acre'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 Style Acre'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.