Common questions about The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Marine Society and Sea Cadets a good charity? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets scores 98 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Marine Society and Sea Cadets as a registered charity (charity number 313013). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=313013&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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets's charity number? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's charity number is 313013. 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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets's charity rating? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets scores 98 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Marine Society and Sea Cadets. 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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of The Marine Society and Sea Cadets'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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 2% 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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets. The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets receive? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets reported £24m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-08). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Marine Society and Sea Cadets based? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's registered contact address is in London (SE1 7JY). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Malta, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Bermuda, Guernsey, with a focus on education.
How much is The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Marine Society and Sea Cadets's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets's money come from? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets reported £24m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £14m (60%), other income £5.9m (25%), donations and legacies £2.3m (10%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £12k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Marine Society and Sea Cadets? +
The register records The Marine Society and Sea Cadets 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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets's trustees paid? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets'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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Marine Society and Sea Cadets: The Marine Society.
When was The Marine Society and Sea Cadets registered as a charity? +
The Marine Society and Sea Cadets was entered on the register on 25 October 1962.
How does CharityCompare score The Marine Society and Sea Cadets? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Marine Society and Sea Cadets'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 Marine Society and Sea Cadets'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.