Common questions about The Beit Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Beit Trust a good charity? +
The Beit Trust scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 91% 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 Beit Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Beit Trust as a registered charity (charity number 232478). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=232478&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 Beit Trust's charity number? +
The Beit Trust's charity number is 232478. 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 Beit Trust's charity rating? +
The Beit Trust scores 75 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 The Beit Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Beit 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: very high reserves). 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 Beit Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 91% of The Beit 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 The Beit Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 9% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 16% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Beit Trust. The Beit Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Beit Trust receive? +
The Beit Trust reported £2.8m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Beit Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Beit Trust based? +
The Beit Trust's registered contact address is in Guildford (GU21 5JB). It tells the regulator it operates in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, with a focus on international aid.
How much is The Beit Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Beit Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Beit Trust's money come from? +
The Beit Trust reported £2.8m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were investments £2.8m (100%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Beit Trust? +
The register does not record The Beit Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Beit Trust's trustees paid? +
The Beit Trust'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 Beit Trust registered as a charity? +
The Beit Trust was entered on the register on 6 July 1964.
How does CharityCompare score The Beit Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Beit 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 The Beit 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.