Common questions about The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services a good charity? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services scores 60 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) 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 Services a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services as a registered charity (charity number 1149326). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1149326&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 Services's charity number? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's charity number is 1149326. 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 Services's charity rating? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services scores 60 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 Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). 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 Services? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services'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.
What are The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 7% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 14% of expenditure (2023); 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 Services. The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Services receive? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services reported £230k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-18). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services based? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's registered contact address is in London (SW1P 1NL). It tells the regulator it operates in Barnet, City of Westminster, Scotland, with a focus on religion.
How much is The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services? +
The register records The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services 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 Services's trustees paid? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services registered as a charity? +
The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services was entered on the register on 16 October 2012. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07638065).
How does CharityCompare score The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Daughters of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul Services'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 Services'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.