Common questions about The London Early Years Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The London Early Years Foundation a good charity? +
The London Early Years Foundation scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% 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 London Early Years Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The London Early Years Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 299686). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=299686&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 London Early Years Foundation's charity number? +
The London Early Years Foundation's charity number is 299686. 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 London Early Years Foundation's charity rating? +
The London Early Years Foundation scores 70 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 London Early Years Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The London Early Years Foundation. 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 London Early Years Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The London Early Years Foundation'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 London Early Years Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The London Early Years Foundation. The London Early Years Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 18 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The London Early Years Foundation receive? +
The London Early Years Foundation reported £37m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The London Early Years Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The London Early Years Foundation based? +
The London Early Years Foundation's registered contact address is in London (SW1P 4LX). It tells the regulator it operates in London, with a focus on children & youth.
How much is The London Early Years Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The London Early Years Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 18 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (2 employees). 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 London Early Years Foundation's money come from? +
The London Early Years Foundation reported £37m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £36m (97%), donations and legacies £796k (2%), other income £139k (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The London Early Years Foundation? +
The register records The London Early Years Foundation 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 London Early Years Foundation's trustees paid? +
The London Early Years Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The London Early Years Foundation previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The London Early Years Foundation: Westminster Children's Society.
When was The London Early Years Foundation registered as a charity? +
The London Early Years Foundation was entered on the register on 31 March 1988. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02228978).
How does CharityCompare score The London Early Years Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The London Early Years Foundation'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 London Early Years Foundation'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.