Common questions about The Handel House Trust Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Handel House Trust Limited a good charity? +
The Handel House Trust Limited scores 74 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 83% 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 Handel House Trust Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Handel House Trust Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1006009). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1006009&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 Handel House Trust Limited's charity number? +
The Handel House Trust Limited's charity number is 1006009. 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 Handel House Trust Limited's charity rating? +
The Handel House Trust Limited scores 74 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 Handel House Trust Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Handel House Trust Limited. 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 Handel House Trust Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 83% of The Handel House Trust Limited'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 Handel House Trust Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 17% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 21% of expenditure (2022–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Handel House Trust Limited. The Handel House Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Handel House Trust Limited receive? +
The Handel House Trust Limited reported £982k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Handel House Trust Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-21). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Handel House Trust Limited based? +
The Handel House Trust Limited's registered contact address is in London (W1K 4HB). It tells the regulator it operates in London, with a focus on environment.
How much is The Handel House Trust Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Handel House Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Handel House Trust Limited's money come from? +
The Handel House Trust Limited reported £982k total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £434k (44%), charitable activities £261k (27%), other income £170k (17%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £190k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Handel House Trust Limited? +
The register records The Handel House Trust Limited 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 Handel House Trust Limited's trustees paid? +
The Handel House Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was The Handel House Trust Limited previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Handel House Trust Limited: The Handel House Association Limited.
When was The Handel House Trust Limited registered as a charity? +
The Handel House Trust Limited was entered on the register on 14 November 1991. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02653428).
How does CharityCompare score The Handel House Trust Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Handel House Trust Limited'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 Handel House Trust Limited'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.