Common questions about The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Salvation Army Social Work Trust a good charity? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust scores 55 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) 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 late. 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 Social Work Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Salvation Army Social Work Trust as a registered charity (charity number 215174). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=215174&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 Social Work Trust's charity number? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's charity number is 215174. 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 Social Work Trust's charity rating? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust scores 55 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Social Work Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Salvation Army Social Work 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; late accounts filing). 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 Social Work Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The Salvation Army Social Work 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 Social Work Trust'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 0% 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 Social Work Trust. The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 54 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 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 Social Work Trust receive? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust reported £240m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Salvation Army Social Work Trust based? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's registered contact address is in London (SE5 8FJ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 54 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 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 Social Work Trust's money come from? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust reported £240m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £207m (86%), donations and legacies £30m (12%), investments £3.5m (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.1m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Salvation Army Social Work Trust? +
The register does not record The Salvation Army Social Work Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's trustees paid? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Salvation Army Social Work Trust previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Salvation Army Social Work Trust: The Salvation Army Social Work.
When was The Salvation Army Social Work Trust registered as a charity? +
The Salvation Army Social Work Trust was entered on the register on 13 February 1963.
How does CharityCompare score The Salvation Army Social Work Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Salvation Army Social Work 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 Social Work 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.