Common questions about Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Walk Wheel Cycle Trust a good charity? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Walk Wheel Cycle Trust as a registered charity (charity number 326550). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=326550&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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's charity number? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's charity number is 326550. 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's charity rating? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust scores 80 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Walk Wheel Cycle Trust. 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of Walk Wheel Cycle 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 2% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 3% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Walk Wheel Cycle Trust. Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust receive? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust reported £111m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-03). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Walk Wheel Cycle Trust based? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's registered contact address is in Bristol (BS1 5DD). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Ireland, with a focus on environment.
How much is Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's money come from? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust reported £111m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £104m (94%), donations and legacies £4.8m (4%), investments £1.9m (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Walk Wheel Cycle Trust? +
The register records Walk Wheel Cycle Trust 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust's trustees paid? +
Walk Wheel Cycle 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 Walk Wheel Cycle Trust previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Walk Wheel Cycle Trust: Sustrans; Sustrans Limited.
When was Walk Wheel Cycle Trust registered as a charity? +
Walk Wheel Cycle Trust was entered on the register on 10 April 1984. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01797726).
How does CharityCompare score Walk Wheel Cycle Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Walk Wheel Cycle 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 Walk Wheel Cycle 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.