Common questions about The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance a good charity? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance scores 93 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance as a registered charity (charity number 249398). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=249398&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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's charity number? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's charity number is 249398. 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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's charity rating? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance scores 93 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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance. 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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance'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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 2% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance. The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance receive? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance reported £17m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance based? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's registered contact address is in Bath (BA5 1FD). It tells the regulator it operates in Somerset, North Somerset, Bath and North East Somerset, Zambia, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's money come from? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance reported £17m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £11m (63%), other income £3.5m (20%), trading and fundraising events £1.1m (7%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance? +
The register records The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance 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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's trustees paid? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance registered as a charity? +
The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance was entered on the register on 5 October 1966. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00139557).
How does CharityCompare score The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance'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 The Bath and Wells Diocesan Board of Finance'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.