Common questions about The Ditchley Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Ditchley Foundation a good charity? +
The Ditchley Foundation scores 62 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 95% 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 Ditchley Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Ditchley Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 309657). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=309657&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 Ditchley Foundation's charity number? +
The Ditchley Foundation's charity number is 309657. 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 Ditchley Foundation's charity rating? +
The Ditchley Foundation 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 Ditchley Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Ditchley Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: sharp income decline; very high reserves). 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 Ditchley Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 95% of The Ditchley 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 Ditchley Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Ditchley Foundation. The Ditchley Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Ditchley Foundation receive? +
The Ditchley Foundation reported £6.4m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are The Ditchley Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Ditchley Foundation based? +
The Ditchley Foundation's registered contact address is in Oxford (Oxfordsh). It tells the regulator it operates in Oxfordshire, Canada, United States, with a focus on education.
How much is The Ditchley Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Ditchley Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Ditchley Foundation's money come from? +
The Ditchley Foundation reported £6.4m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.7m (74%), investments £1.2m (18%), other income £470k (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £4m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Ditchley Foundation? +
The register records The Ditchley 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 Ditchley Foundation's trustees paid? +
The Ditchley Foundation'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 Ditchley Foundation registered as a charity? +
The Ditchley Foundation was entered on the register on 1 May 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00599389).
How does CharityCompare score The Ditchley Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Ditchley 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 Ditchley 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.