Common questions about The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity a good charity? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity scores 78 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 77% 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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1117794). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1117794&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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's charity number? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's charity number is 1117794. 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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's charity rating? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity scores 78 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.
Does The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity. 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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 77% of The Royal Navy and Royal Marines 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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 23% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 36% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity. The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity receive? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity reported £14m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-07). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity based? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's registered contact address is in Portsmouth (PO2 8ER). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 6 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's money come from? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity reported £14m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £7.6m (55%), charitable activities £2.5m (18%), investments £2m (15%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £669k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity? +
The register records The Royal Navy and Royal Marines 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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity's trustees paid? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity'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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity registered as a charity? +
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity was entered on the register on 2 February 2007. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06047294).
How does CharityCompare score The Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Navy and Royal Marines 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 Royal Navy and Royal Marines Charity'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.