Common questions about The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO a good charity? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO scores 78 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO as a registered charity (charity number 1204513). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1204513&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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's charity number? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's charity number is 1204513. 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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's charity rating? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO scores 78 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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO. 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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO'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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO'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 2% of expenditure (2024–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO receive? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO reported £2.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: limited history.
Are The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-07-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO based? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's registered contact address is in London (NW7 1RE). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's money come from? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO reported £2.7m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.2m (82%), investments £455k (17%), other income £27k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £85k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO? +
The register records The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO 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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO's trustees paid? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO'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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO registered as a charity? +
The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO was entered on the register on 29 August 2023.
How does CharityCompare score The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO'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 Daughters of Charity of St Vincent de Paul CIO'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.