Common questions about The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited a good charity? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited scores 65 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 97% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-yr avg) 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.
Is The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1151436). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1151436&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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's charity number? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's charity number is 1151436. 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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's charity rating? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited scores 65 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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). 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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 97% of The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's total spending went to charitable activities (2-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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited'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 (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited. The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 July 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited receive? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited reported £2.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-03-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited based? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's registered contact address is in London (WC1E 6JA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on arts & culture.
How much is The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 July 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's money come from? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited reported £2.7m total income for the year ending 31 July 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.5m (91%), trading and fundraising events £191k (7%), charitable activities £25k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited? +
The register records The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited 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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's trustees paid? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 July 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited registered as a charity? +
The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited was entered on the register on 27 March 2013. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 08158264).
How does CharityCompare score The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Conversation Trust (UK) Limited'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 Conversation Trust (UK) Limited'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.