Common questions about The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Global Fund for Children UK Trust a good charity? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust scores 69 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 96% 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Global Fund for Children UK Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1119544). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1119544&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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust's charity number? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's charity number is 1119544. 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust's charity rating? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust scores 69 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Global Fund for Children UK 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: sharp income decline). 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of The Global Fund for Children UK 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 4% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 4% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Global Fund for Children UK Trust. The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust receive? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust reported £2.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-04-09). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Global Fund for Children UK Trust based? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's registered contact address is in London (EC1N 8UB). It tells the regulator it operates in Argentina, Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Georgia, Ghana, with a focus on international aid.
How much is The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust's money come from? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust reported £2.6m total income for the year ending 30 June 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.4m (92%), other income £161k (6%), charitable activities £36k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Global Fund for Children UK Trust? +
The register records The Global Fund for Children UK 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 Global Fund for Children UK Trust's trustees paid? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Global Fund for Children UK Trust registered as a charity? +
The Global Fund for Children UK Trust was entered on the register on 7 June 2007. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06031876).
How does CharityCompare score The Global Fund for Children UK Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Global Fund for Children UK 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 Global Fund for Children UK 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.