Common questions about The Salvation Army International Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Salvation Army International Trust a good charity? +
The Salvation Army International Trust scores 66 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 82% 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 Salvation Army International Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Salvation Army International Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1000566). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1000566&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 Salvation Army International Trust's charity number? +
The Salvation Army International Trust's charity number is 1000566. 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 Salvation Army International Trust's charity rating? +
The Salvation Army International Trust scores 66 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 Salvation Army International Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Salvation Army International Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight). 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 Salvation Army International Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 82% of The Salvation Army International 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 Salvation Army International Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 18% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 21% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Salvation Army International Trust. The Salvation Army International Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 51 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 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 Salvation Army International Trust receive? +
The Salvation Army International Trust reported £82m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Salvation Army International Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Salvation Army International Trust based? +
The Salvation Army International Trust's registered contact address is in London (EC4V 4EH). It tells the regulator it operates in Angola, Antigua and Barbuda, Argentina, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is The Salvation Army International Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Salvation Army International Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 51 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 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 Salvation Army International Trust's money come from? +
The Salvation Army International Trust reported £82m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £57m (69%), trading and fundraising events £15m (19%), investments £7.6m (9%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £709k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Salvation Army International Trust? +
The register does not record The Salvation Army International Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Salvation Army International Trust's trustees paid? +
The Salvation Army International Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits. Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was The Salvation Army International Trust registered as a charity? +
The Salvation Army International Trust was entered on the register on 18 October 1990. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02538134).
How does CharityCompare score The Salvation Army International Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Salvation Army International 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 Salvation Army International 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.