Common questions about Treasures Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Treasures Foundation a good charity? +
Treasures Foundation scores 93 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 94% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-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 Treasures Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Treasures Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 1131292). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1131292&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 Treasures Foundation's charity number? +
Treasures Foundation's charity number is 1131292. 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 Treasures Foundation's charity rating? +
Treasures Foundation scores 93 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Treasures Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Treasures Foundation. 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 Treasures Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 94% of Treasures Foundation's total spending went to charitable activities (2-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 Treasures Foundation's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 6% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 7% of expenditure (2024–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Treasures Foundation. Treasures Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Treasures Foundation receive? +
Treasures Foundation reported £552k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Treasures Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-04-08). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Treasures Foundation based? +
Treasures Foundation's registered contact address is in London (WC1N 3AF). It tells the regulator it operates in Newham, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Treasures Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Treasures Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports no employees paid more than £60,000. 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 Treasures Foundation's money come from? +
Treasures Foundation reported £552k total income for the year ending 30 June 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £317k (57%), charitable activities £229k (41%), investments £3,267 (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Treasures Foundation? +
The register records Treasures 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 Treasures Foundation's trustees paid? +
Treasures Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 June 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Treasures Foundation previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Treasures Foundation: Treasures Out of Darkness Foundation.
When was Treasures Foundation registered as a charity? +
Treasures Foundation was entered on the register on 24 August 2009. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06937026).
How does CharityCompare score Treasures Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Treasures 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 Treasures 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.