Common questions about The Order of Friars Minor's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Order of Friars Minor a good charity? +
The Order of Friars Minor scores 61 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) 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 Order of Friars Minor a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Order of Friars Minor as a registered charity (charity number 232177). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=232177&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 Order of Friars Minor's charity number? +
The Order of Friars Minor's charity number is 232177. 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 Order of Friars Minor's charity rating? +
The Order of Friars Minor scores 61 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 Order of Friars Minor have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Order of Friars Minor. 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 Order of Friars Minor? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 68% of The Order of Friars Minor'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 Order of Friars Minor's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2022–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Order of Friars Minor. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
How much income does The Order of Friars Minor receive? +
The Order of Friars Minor reported £1.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Order of Friars Minor's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-21). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Order of Friars Minor based? +
The Order of Friars Minor's registered contact address is in London (IG8 0RB). It tells the regulator it operates in Newham, Essex, Kent, Somerset, Belgium, India, with a focus on poverty relief.
Where does The Order of Friars Minor's money come from? +
The Order of Friars Minor reported £1.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £907k (55%), investments £725k (44%), other income £14k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £238k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Order of Friars Minor? +
The register does not record The Order of Friars Minor as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Order of Friars Minor's trustees paid? +
The Order of Friars Minor's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits. Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was The Order of Friars Minor previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Order of Friars Minor: The Order of the Friars Minor.
When was The Order of Friars Minor registered as a charity? +
The Order of Friars Minor was entered on the register on 21 January 1964.
How does CharityCompare score The Order of Friars Minor? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Order of Friars Minor'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 Order of Friars Minor'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.