Common questions about The Licensed Trade Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Licensed Trade Charity a good charity? +
The Licensed Trade Charity scores 89 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) 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 Licensed Trade Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Licensed Trade Charity as a registered charity (charity number 230011). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=230011&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 Licensed Trade Charity's charity number? +
The Licensed Trade Charity's charity number is 230011. 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 Licensed Trade Charity's charity rating? +
The Licensed Trade Charity scores 89 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 Licensed Trade Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Licensed Trade 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 Licensed Trade Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 96% of The Licensed Trade 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 Licensed Trade Charity'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 (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Licensed Trade Charity. The Licensed Trade Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 27 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 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 Licensed Trade Charity receive? +
The Licensed Trade Charity reported £30m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Licensed Trade Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Licensed Trade Charity based? +
The Licensed Trade Charity's registered contact address is in Slough (SL5 8DR). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Licensed Trade Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Licensed Trade Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 27 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 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 Licensed Trade Charity's money come from? +
The Licensed Trade Charity reported £30m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £27m (90%), investments £1.6m (5%), trading and fundraising events £1.2m (4%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Licensed Trade Charity? +
The register records The Licensed Trade 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 Licensed Trade Charity's trustees paid? +
The Licensed Trade Charity'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 Licensed Trade Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The Licensed Trade Charity: Licensed Trade Charity; The Society of Licensed Victuallers.
When was The Licensed Trade Charity registered as a charity? +
The Licensed Trade Charity was entered on the register on 26 February 1964.
How does CharityCompare score The Licensed Trade Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Licensed Trade 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 Licensed Trade Charity'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.