The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust scores 52 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) and its accounts are late. 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.

The register data used for this profile lists The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1145169). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1145169&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.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust's charity number is 1145169. 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.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust scores 52 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; very high reserves). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust's total spending went to charitable activities. 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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2024); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust reported £1.6m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.

Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust's registered contact address is in Taunton (TA24 8ZX). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on environment.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust reported £1.6m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.5m (96%), investments £47k (3%), charitable activities £15k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.5m.

The register records The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust 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.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.

The register lists these previous names for The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust: The British Society of Master Glass Painters' Charitable Trust; Stained Glass Arts Trust.

The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable Trust was entered on the register on 20 December 2011.

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable 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.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The British Society of Master Glass Painters Charitable 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.