Common questions about The Church of England Pensions Board's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Church of England Pensions Board a good charity? +
The Church of England Pensions Board scores 62 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% 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 Church of England Pensions Board a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Church of England Pensions Board as a registered charity (charity number 236627). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=236627&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 Church of England Pensions Board's charity number? +
The Church of England Pensions Board's charity number is 236627. 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 Church of England Pensions Board's charity rating? +
The Church of England Pensions Board scores 62 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.
Does The Church of England Pensions Board have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Church of England Pensions Board. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: sharp income decline). 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 Church of England Pensions Board? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The Church of England Pensions Board'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 Church of England Pensions Board's overheads? +
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 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Church of England Pensions Board. The Church of England Pensions Board's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 51 employees paid more than £60,000, including 14 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Church of England Pensions Board receive? +
The Church of England Pensions Board reported £42m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Church of England Pensions Board's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Church of England Pensions Board based? +
The Church of England Pensions Board's registered contact address is in Worcester (WR10 9BW). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Church of England Pensions Board's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Church of England Pensions Board's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 51 employees paid more than £60,000, including 14 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (2 employees). 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 Church of England Pensions Board's money come from? +
The Church of England Pensions Board reported £42m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £30m (71%), donations and legacies £7.1m (17%), other income £3m (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £322k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Church of England Pensions Board? +
The register does not record The Church of England Pensions Board as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Church of England Pensions Board's trustees paid? +
The Church of England Pensions Board's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Church of England Pensions Board registered as a charity? +
The Church of England Pensions Board was entered on the register on 2 September 1964.
How does CharityCompare score The Church of England Pensions Board? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Church of England Pensions Board'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 Church of England Pensions Board'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.