Common questions about The Dean Close Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Dean Close Foundation a good charity? +
The Dean Close Foundation scores 82 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 81% 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 Dean Close Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Dean Close Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1086829). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1086829&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 Dean Close Foundation's charity number? +
The Dean Close Foundation's charity number is 1086829. 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 Dean Close Foundation's charity rating? +
The Dean Close Foundation scores 82 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 Dean Close Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Dean Close Foundation. 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 Dean Close Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 81% of The Dean Close Foundation'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 Dean Close Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 19% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 19% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Dean Close Foundation. The Dean Close Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 46 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Dean Close Foundation receive? +
The Dean Close Foundation reported £64m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Dean Close Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Dean Close Foundation based? +
The Dean Close Foundation's registered contact address is in Gloucester (GL51 6HE). It tells the regulator it operates in Gloucestershire, Monmouthshire, Newport City, with a focus on education.
How much is The Dean Close Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Dean Close Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 46 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Dean Close Foundation's money come from? +
The Dean Close Foundation reported £64m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £29m (45%), charitable activities £27m (42%), trading and fundraising events £7.6m (12%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Dean Close Foundation? +
The register records The Dean Close Foundation 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 Dean Close Foundation's trustees paid? +
The Dean Close Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Dean Close Foundation previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Dean Close Foundation: Dean Close School.
When was The Dean Close Foundation registered as a charity? +
The Dean Close Foundation was entered on the register on 31 May 2001. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04193948).
How does CharityCompare score The Dean Close Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Dean Close Foundation'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 Dean Close Foundation'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.