Common questions about The Soil Association Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Soil Association Limited a good charity? +
The Soil Association Limited scores 76 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 94% 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 Soil Association Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Soil Association Limited as a registered charity (charity number 206862). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=206862&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 Soil Association Limited's charity number? +
The Soil Association Limited's charity number is 206862. 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 Soil Association Limited's charity rating? +
The Soil Association Limited scores 76 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 Soil Association Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Soil Association 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 Soil Association Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 94% of The Soil Association 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 Soil Association Limited's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 5% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 5% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Soil Association Limited. The Soil Association Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Soil Association Limited receive? +
The Soil Association Limited reported £25m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Soil Association Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Soil Association Limited based? +
The Soil Association Limited's registered contact address is in Bristol (BS1 6AD). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on animals.
How much is The Soil Association Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Soil Association Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Soil Association Limited's money come from? +
The Soil Association Limited reported £25m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £20m (81%), donations and legacies £3.6m (14%), trading and fundraising events £1.1m (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2,451.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Soil Association Limited? +
The register records The Soil Association 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 Soil Association Limited's trustees paid? +
The Soil Association Limited'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 Soil Association Limited registered as a charity? +
The Soil Association Limited was entered on the register on 22 September 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00409726).
How does CharityCompare score The Soil Association Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Soil Association 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 Soil Association 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.