Common questions about The Old Dart Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Old Dart Foundation a good charity? +
The Old Dart Foundation scores 55 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 86% 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 Old Dart Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Old Dart Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1153568). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1153568&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 Old Dart Foundation's charity number? +
The Old Dart Foundation's charity number is 1153568. 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 Old Dart Foundation's charity rating? +
The Old Dart Foundation scores 55 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Old Dart Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Old Dart Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: very high reserves). 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 Old Dart Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 86% of The Old Dart 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 Old Dart Foundation'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 16% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Old Dart Foundation. The Old Dart Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee 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 Old Dart Foundation receive? +
The Old Dart Foundation reported £2.7m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Old Dart Foundation'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 Old Dart Foundation based? +
The Old Dart Foundation's registered contact address is in London (EC4A 3AQ). It tells the regulator it operates in Chile, Papua New Guinea, Peru, Philippines, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Old Dart Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Old Dart Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee 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 Old Dart Foundation's money come from? +
The Old Dart Foundation reported £2.7m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £2.5m (94%), investments £169k (6%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Old Dart Foundation? +
The register does not record The Old Dart Foundation as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Old Dart Foundation's trustees paid? +
The Old Dart Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Old Dart Foundation registered as a charity? +
The Old Dart Foundation was entered on the register on 29 August 2013. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 08565375).
How does CharityCompare score The Old Dart Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Old Dart 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 Old Dart Foundation'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.