The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. scores 82 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 38% 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.

The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. as a registered charity (charity number 1046060). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1046060&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.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'s charity number is 1046060. 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.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. scores 82 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). 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.

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 38% of The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'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.

Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 26% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 27% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.. The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'s annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (1 employee). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. reported £6.2m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-07). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'s registered contact address is in Worcester (WR5 2JG). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on sport.

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'s annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. reported £6.2m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £5.5m (89%), donations and legacies £515k (8%), charitable activities £95k (2%).

The register records The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. 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.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'s annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

The register lists this previous name for The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.: Royal Life Saving Society - United Kingdom.

The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk. was entered on the register on 26 April 1995. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03033781).

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'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.

This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and The Royal Life Saving Society - UKk.'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.