Common questions about The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust a good charity? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust scores 71 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 55% 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust as a registered charity (charity number 307534). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=307534&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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's charity number? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's charity number is 307534. 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's charity rating? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust scores 71 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight; high fundraising costs). 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 55% of The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 45% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 49% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust. The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 October 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust receive? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust reported £6.8m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-05-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust based? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's registered contact address is in Stevenage (SG18 9EP). It tells the regulator it operates in Central Bedfordshire, Bedford, with a focus on environment.
How much is The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 October 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (2 employees). 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's money come from? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust reported £6.8m total income for the year ending 31 October 2025. The largest sources were investments £2.7m (39%), trading and fundraising events £2.2m (32%), charitable activities £1.5m (22%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust? +
The register records The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's trustees paid? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 October 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust: Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust.
When was The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust registered as a charity? +
The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust was entered on the register on 26 March 1963.
How does CharityCompare score The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance 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 Richard Ormonde Shuttleworth Remembrance 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.