Common questions about The Royal Town Planning Institute's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Royal Town Planning Institute a good charity? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute scores 95 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% 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 Town Planning Institute a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Town Planning Institute as a registered charity (charity number 262865). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=262865&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 Town Planning Institute's charity number? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute's charity number is 262865. 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 Town Planning Institute's charity rating? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute scores 95 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Town Planning Institute have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Town Planning Institute. 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 Town Planning Institute? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The Royal Town Planning Institute'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 Town Planning Institute's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal Town Planning Institute. The Royal Town Planning Institute's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Town Planning Institute receive? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute reported £8.4m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Royal Town Planning Institute's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Royal Town Planning Institute based? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute's registered contact address is in London (EC3R 8DL). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Ireland, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on environment.
How much is The Royal Town Planning Institute's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal Town Planning Institute's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 11 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Town Planning Institute's money come from? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute reported £8.4m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £8.1m (97%), investments £238k (3%), donations and legacies £1,000 (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal Town Planning Institute? +
The register records The Royal Town Planning Institute 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 Town Planning Institute's trustees paid? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute'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 Town Planning Institute registered as a charity? +
The Royal Town Planning Institute was entered on the register on 17 September 1971.
How does CharityCompare score The Royal Town Planning Institute? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Town Planning Institute'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 Town Planning Institute'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.