Common questions about The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity a good charity? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity scores 61 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 67% 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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1131977). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1131977&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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's charity number? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's charity number is 1131977. 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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's charity rating? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity 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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: high fundraising costs; 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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 67% of The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity'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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 33% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 34% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity. The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity receive? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity reported £1.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-08-25). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity based? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's registered contact address is in Colchester (CO2 7UT). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 2 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's money come from? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity reported £1.6m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £677k (42%), trading and fundraising events £488k (31%), investments £404k (25%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £114k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity? +
The register records The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity 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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's trustees paid? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity: The Parachute Regiment Charity.
When was The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity registered as a charity? +
The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity was entered on the register on 5 October 2009. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07005997).
How does CharityCompare score The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity'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 Parachute Regiment and Airborne Forces Charity'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.