Common questions about The Extracare Charitable Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Extracare Charitable Trust a good charity? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust scores 78 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) 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 Extracare Charitable Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Extracare Charitable Trust as a registered charity (charity number 327816). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=327816&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 Extracare Charitable Trust's charity number? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust's charity number is 327816. 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 Extracare Charitable Trust's charity rating? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust 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 Extracare Charitable Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Extracare Charitable Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: 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 Extracare Charitable Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 95% of The Extracare Charitable Trust'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 Extracare Charitable Trust'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 (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Extracare Charitable Trust. The Extracare Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 40 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 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 Extracare Charitable Trust receive? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust reported £70m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Extracare Charitable Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-14). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Extracare Charitable Trust based? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust's registered contact address is in Coventry (CV3 2SN). It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on homelessness.
How much is The Extracare Charitable Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Extracare Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 40 employees paid more than £60,000, including 8 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 Extracare Charitable Trust's money come from? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust reported £70m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £65m (92%), trading and fundraising events £2.8m (4%), donations and legacies £1.6m (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £76k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Extracare Charitable Trust? +
The register records The Extracare Charitable Trust 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 Extracare Charitable Trust's trustees paid? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Extracare Charitable Trust previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The Extracare Charitable Trust: Ccha Extra Care Limited; Extra Care Limited; Sherbourne Extra Care Limited.
When was The Extracare Charitable Trust registered as a charity? +
The Extracare Charitable Trust was entered on the register on 31 May 1988. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02205136).
How does CharityCompare score The Extracare Charitable Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Extracare Charitable Trust'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 Extracare Charitable Trust'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.