Common questions about The Shaw Trust Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Shaw Trust Limited a good charity? +
The Shaw Trust Limited scores 83 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% 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 Shaw Trust Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Shaw Trust Limited as a registered charity (charity number 287785). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=287785&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 Shaw Trust Limited's charity number? +
The Shaw Trust Limited's charity number is 287785. 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 Shaw Trust Limited's charity rating? +
The Shaw Trust Limited scores 83 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 Shaw Trust Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Shaw Trust Limited. 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 Shaw Trust Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of The Shaw Trust Limited'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 Shaw Trust Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 2% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Shaw Trust Limited. The Shaw Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 278 employees paid more than £60,000, including 40 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Shaw Trust Limited receive? +
The Shaw Trust Limited reported £291m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Shaw Trust Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-06-03). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Shaw Trust Limited based? +
The Shaw Trust Limited's registered contact address is in Birmingham (B69 2DG). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Australia, Poland, Romania, Scotland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Shaw Trust Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Shaw Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports 278 employees paid more than £60,000, including 40 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (2 employees). 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 Shaw Trust Limited's money come from? +
The Shaw Trust Limited reported £291m total income for the year ending 31 August 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £281m (96%), donations and legacies £5.6m (2%), trading and fundraising events £3.5m (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Shaw Trust Limited? +
The register records The Shaw Trust Limited 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 Shaw Trust Limited's trustees paid? +
The Shaw Trust Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 August 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Shaw Trust Limited registered as a charity? +
The Shaw Trust Limited was entered on the register on 8 September 1983. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01744121).
How does CharityCompare score The Shaw Trust Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Shaw Trust Limited'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 Shaw Trust Limited'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.