Common questions about The Honeypot Children's Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Honeypot Children's Charity a good charity? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity scores 81 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 80% 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 Honeypot Children's Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Honeypot Children's Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1184132). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1184132&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 Honeypot Children's Charity's charity number? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity's charity number is 1184132. 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 Honeypot Children's Charity's charity rating? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity scores 81 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 Honeypot Children's Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Honeypot Children's Charity. 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 Honeypot Children's Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 80% of The Honeypot Children's Charity'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 Honeypot Children's Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 20% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 21% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Honeypot Children's Charity. The Honeypot Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees 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 Honeypot Children's Charity receive? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity reported £2.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Honeypot Children's Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-04). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Honeypot Children's Charity based? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity's registered contact address is in London (W6 7AP). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on children & youth.
How much is The Honeypot Children's Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Honeypot Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees 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 Honeypot Children's Charity's money come from? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity reported £2.2m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2m (92%), trading and fundraising events £97k (4%), charitable activities £47k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £237k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Honeypot Children's Charity? +
The register records The Honeypot Children's Charity 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 Honeypot Children's Charity's trustees paid? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity'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 Honeypot Children's Charity registered as a charity? +
The Honeypot Children's Charity was entered on the register on 27 June 2019.
How does CharityCompare score The Honeypot Children's Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Honeypot Children's Charity'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 Honeypot Children's Charity'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.