Common questions about The Oakhaven Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Oakhaven Trust a good charity? +
The Oakhaven Trust scores 91 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 68% 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 Oakhaven Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Oakhaven Trust as a registered charity (charity number 900215). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=900215&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 Oakhaven Trust's charity number? +
The Oakhaven Trust's charity number is 900215. 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 Oakhaven Trust's charity rating? +
The Oakhaven Trust scores 91 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 Oakhaven Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Oakhaven Trust. 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 Oakhaven Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 68% of The Oakhaven Trust'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 Oakhaven Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 14% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Oakhaven Trust. The Oakhaven Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Oakhaven Trust receive? +
The Oakhaven Trust reported £10m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Oakhaven Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-05). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Oakhaven Trust based? +
The Oakhaven Trust's registered contact address is in Southampton (SO41 8ZZ). It tells the regulator it operates in Hampshire, with a focus on health.
How much is The Oakhaven Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Oakhaven Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Oakhaven Trust's money come from? +
The Oakhaven Trust reported £10m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.2m (41%), charitable activities £3.2m (31%), trading and fundraising events £2.3m (22%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.8m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Oakhaven Trust? +
The register records The Oakhaven Trust 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 Oakhaven Trust's trustees paid? +
The Oakhaven Trust'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 Oakhaven Trust registered as a charity? +
The Oakhaven Trust was entered on the register on 13 November 1989. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02435177).
How does CharityCompare score The Oakhaven Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Oakhaven Trust'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 Oakhaven Trust'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.