The Built Environment Trust

The Built Environment Trust scores 66 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 20% 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.

The register data used for this profile lists The Built Environment Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1163419). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1163419&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 Built Environment Trust's charity number is 1163419. 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 Built Environment Trust scores 66 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Built Environment 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: high fundraising costs). 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, 20% of The Built Environment 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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 80% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 85% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Built Environment Trust. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.

The Built Environment Trust reported £2.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-13). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

The Built Environment Trust's registered contact address is in London (WC1E 7BT). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on environment.

The Built Environment Trust reported £2.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £2.7m (98%), investments £40k (1%), charitable activities £13k (0%).

The register does not record The Built Environment Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.

The Built Environment Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

The Built Environment Trust was entered on the register on 4 September 2015. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09631202).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Built Environment 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 Built Environment Trust'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.