Common questions about The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation a good charity? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation scores 60 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 60% 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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 207939). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=207939&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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's charity number? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's charity number is 207939. 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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's charity rating? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation scores 60 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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: very high reserves). 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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 60% of The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation'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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 10% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 13% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation. The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation receive? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation reported £3.9m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation based? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's registered contact address is in London (SW6 1DT). It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's money come from? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation reported £3.9m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were other income £3m (76%), donations and legacies £714k (18%), trading and fundraising events £103k (3%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation? +
The register records The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation 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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's trustees paid? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation registered as a charity? +
The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation was entered on the register on 22 September 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00148636).
How does CharityCompare score The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation'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 Sir Oswald Stoll Foundation'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.