Common questions about The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust a good charity? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust scores 53 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 68% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1112023). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1112023&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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's charity number? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's charity number is 1112023. 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's charity rating? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust scores 53 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; poor filing history; high fundraising costs). 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 68% of The Game and Wildlife Conservation 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 32% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 33% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust. The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust receive? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust reported £12m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust based? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's registered contact address is in Salisbury (SP6 1EF). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, with a focus on animals.
How much is The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's money come from? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust reported £12m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.4m (38%), trading and fundraising events £3.2m (28%), charitable activities £3m (26%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £22k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust? +
The register records The Game and Wildlife Conservation 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's trustees paid? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust: The Game Conservancy Trust Limited.
When was The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust registered as a charity? +
The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust was entered on the register on 11 November 2005. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05579632).
How does CharityCompare score The Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Game and Wildlife Conservation 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 Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.