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Community · Reg 1182766
Blackrock Charities Funds
30 /100
Clarity score
Poor
Historical financial rating & register information
Register checked 23 October 2026 · latest accounts 2024
Official regulator data
Is Blackrock Charities Funds a good charity?
Blackrock Charities Funds scores 30/100 (2 stars, Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2024 (£37m total income, 0% cause spend, 3-yr avg). This reflects financial transparency and stewardship on paper — not the real-world impact of its programmes. See the full breakdown.
What red flags does Blackrock Charities Funds have?
Income
£37m
Accounts 2024-06-30
Spending
£4.7m
Accounts 2024-06-30
Charitable activities
0%
Share of spending, accounts 2024-06-30
Accounts filing
Late
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Reg 1182766 Registered charity
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Charity Commission register
What does Blackrock Charities Funds do?
The Trust is an authorised unit trust scheme established as an umbrella and authorised and regulated bythe FCA as a CAIF and as a non-UCITS retail scheme for the purposes of the FCA Rules. The Trust wasestablished on 1 April 2019 and was authorised by the FCA on 1 April 2019. The Trust is a UK charity registered with the Commission with registration number 1182766.
Activities reported by the charity on the official register · extract . This is separate from the accounts data used for its rating.
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How much does Blackrock Charities Funds raise and spend?
Accounts period 2023-07-01 to 2024-06-30 · Source: Charity Commission filings
| Category | Amount | % of spend |
|---|---|---|
| Total income | £37m | — |
| Total expenditure | £4.7m | — |
| Charitable activities | £0 | 0% |
| Fundraising | £4.0m | 85% |
| Reported governance | £0 | 0% |
Governance can already be allocated within other expenditure categories. It is not a separate measure of all administration costs; do not add these rows without checking the accounts notes.
How much does Blackrock Charities Funds spend to raise £1 of donations?
Blackrock Charities Funds reported no income from donations or legacies in 2024, so there is no figure for that year.
| Year | Donations & legacies | Raising-funds spend | Cost per £1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £0 | £4.0m | No donations |
| 2023 | £0 | £4.5m | No donations |
| 2022 | £0 | £5.3m | No donations |
| 2021 | £0 | £5.2m | No donations |
| 2020 | £0 | £3.0m | No donations |
Raising-funds spend from the charity's annual return, less any investment management costs, divided by its income from donations and legacies for the same accounts year. We don't show a figure when trading income is 10% or more of donations, because raising-funds spend also covers trading costs, such as running shops.
Legacies (gifts in wills) can swing a lot from year to year, which moves this figure. Trading income is not counted as donations. This is not a measure of impact or of how well the charity is run, and it is not part of the Clarity Score. How we calculate it. Source: Charity Commission annual returns, register extract dated 6 September 2026.
What changed in Blackrock Charities Funds’s latest accounts?
Reported totals for 2024 compared with 2023. Changes can reflect the accounting period, restricted grants or restructuring as well as the charity’s work.
- Income change
- −15.1%
- £44m → £37m
- Spending change
- −5.2%
- £5.0m → £4.7m
- Charitable activities share
- +0.0 pp
- 0% → 0% · percentage points
These are annual figures. The Clarity Score may use averages across several disclosed years. Source: official accounts.
0%On charitable activities
How much of Blackrock Charities Funds’s spending goes to charitable activities?
Latest accounts (2024) · £4.7m spent
- Fundraising85% · £4.0m
- Remaining expenditure15% · £716k
From the annual return
What does Blackrock Charities Funds pay its staff, and where does its money come from?
Answers Blackrock Charities Funds gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission, plus its register entry. These are the charity's own disclosures, not part of the Clarity Score.
Registration details
- Registered as a charity
- Where it says it operates
- Throughout England and Wales
Source: Charity Commission register and annual return data, Open Government Licence v3.0. A blank answer in the return is shown as not reported, never as “no”.
How have Blackrock Charities Funds's finances changed over five years?
Income rose 32% from £28m in 2020 to £37m in 2024; spending was £4.7m in 2024.
- Income
- Spending
- Cause spend
| Year | Income | Spending | Charitable activities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | £37m | £4.7m | £0 |
| 2023 | £44m | £5.0m | £0 |
| 2022 | £46m | £6.4m | £0 |
| 2021 | £43m | £5.7m | £0 |
| 2020 | £28m | £3.3m | £0 |
Cause spend is plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission filings
How is Blackrock Charities Funds's Clarity Score of 30 worked out?
Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report.
Accountability & Transparency
Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies.
38/100
| Metric | Score | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Filing history (5 years) No recorded lateness in available history = 15 pts · one late filing = 5 pts · two or more or unknown status = 0 pts. Missing data is not proof of late filing. | 33% | 5/15 pts |
| Trustee oversight Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three). | 67% | 2 trustees · 10/15 pts |
| Declared policies Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return. | 0% | 0/10 pts |
Financial Health
Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts.
17/100
| Metric | Score | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Reserves (months of expenditure) 3–24 months = full marks, tapering on both sides · 0 months or 4+ years = 0 pts. Reserves are not necessarily cash; needs vary by operating model. | 0% | 0 months · 0/15 pts |
| Income stability / growth +20% or more over the window = 10 pts · flat = 5 pts · −20% or worse = 0 pts, scaled between. | 0% | 0/10 pts · 3-year average |
| Liabilities to assets 0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt. | 100% | 1% · 5/5 pts |
Financial Efficiency
How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios.
50/100
| Metric | Score | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Program expense ratio 90%+ on charitable activities = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 50% or below. | 0% | 0% · 0/10 pts (3-year average) |
| Fundraising efficiency ≤10p to raise £1 = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 40p or above (fundraising cost ÷ income). | 100% | 11p per £1 income · 10/10 pts (3-year average, disclosed years) |
Community Support
Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff.
0/100
| Metric | Score | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Volunteer-to-staff ratio Volunteers at 2x staff or more = full marks · no volunteers = 0 pts, scaled between. | 0% | 0 volunteers / 0 staff · 0/10 pts |
How does Blackrock Charities Funds compare?
The share of each group scoring at or below Blackrock Charities Funds, including tied scores. A group matched on cause, income band and accounts year appears when at least ten records qualify. Broader groups below may mix reporting periods and operating models. Groups include this charity; percentiles measure our financial rating, not impact.
Income band (£10m+) 1stpercentile
Scores at or above 1% of 930 charities in its income band · 30/100 vs 76 peer average.
Community charities 1stpercentile
Scores at or above 1% of 201 charities in this cause · 30/100 vs 71 peer average.
How does Blackrock Charities Funds compare, and where else can you look?
Where Blackrock Charities Funds sits
The causes this charity is classified under, and other charities working nearby.
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Evidence and interpretation
What the evidence says about Blackrock Charities Funds
In 2024, reported income was £37,158,593 and expenditure was £4,710,021. Income exceeded expenditure by £32,448,572. This annual balance is not the charity’s available cash or unrestricted reserves.
More financial context
Income fell 15.1% compared with 2023. Read the accounts notes for restricted grants, legacies and one-off receipts before treating the movement as a trend.
Calculated from our dated accounts dataset, refreshed 2026-09-06. This is not an audit or a manual review of every filing. Original register and accounts · How calculations work.
Find the right support
Who it supports and how to access its work
Beneficiary classifications are not available in this profile’s source data.
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Results and impact evidence
We have not added a source-checked programme outcome for this charity. That is a gap in this profile, not evidence that the charity has no impact. Its annual report may contain results that have not been assessed here.
Reported grants to institutions: £0 (2024-06-30). This is spending reported in the annual return, not a measure of beneficiary outcomes or an open grant opportunity. It may already be included in charitable expenditure. Check the source accounts.
What these results can tell you
Counts of services delivered describe activity. They do not by themselves establish lasting change, what would have happened without the programme, or cost-effectiveness. Results with different definitions, populations or years should not be ranked against each other.
What trust indicators does Blackrock Charities Funds have?
Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported.
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Accounts filed on time
Filing status: late
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Trustee board size (3–12)
2 trustees on the Charity Commission register
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Workforce on register
0 employees · 0 volunteers
Fundraising Regulator
Not listed as member
Separate from our financial scores. Registration records a commitment to the Code of Fundraising Practice; it does not certify every fundraising activity.
Check Fundraising Regulator →Official register
Reg 1182766
Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission.
View on Charity Commission →Trustees & officers
- Bank of New York Mellon (International) Limited since 2019
- Blackrock Fund Managers Limited since 2019
How reliable is Blackrock Charities Funds's data?
- Source
- Charity Commission (England & Wales)
- Accounts year
- 2024
- Filing date
- Data refreshed
Medium confidence — some data missing or late
Scores reflect the accounts in our dated data extract. The live register may contain newer filings. Clarity Score measures how clearly the charity accounts for money in those filings — not programme impact.
Check the current register entry · Report a data correction
Financial source extract: 2026-09-06. Organisation identifier: 5139426. Method version: 1.1. View method changes.
Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Open Government Licence v3.0 .
Your donation decision
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Frequently asked questions
Common questions about Blackrock Charities Funds's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Blackrock Charities Funds a good charity?
Blackrock Charities Funds scores 30 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 0% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Blackrock Charities Funds a legitimate charity?
The register data used for this profile lists Blackrock Charities Funds as a registered charity (charity number 1182766). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1182766&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 Blackrock Charities Funds's charity number?
Blackrock Charities Funds's charity number is 1182766. 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 Blackrock Charities Funds's charity rating?
Blackrock Charities Funds scores 30 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Blackrock Charities Funds have reviews and complaints?
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Blackrock Charities Funds. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight; late accounts filing; high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How do I complain about Blackrock Charities Funds?
Raise it with Blackrock Charities Funds first, using the complaints contact on its own website (blackrock.co.uk). If you are unhappy with how it handled a complaint about fundraising, the Fundraising Regulator covers England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and the Scottish Fundraising Adjudication Panel covers Scotland. Serious concerns about how the charity is run, such as misuse of funds or risk to the people it helps, go to the Charity Commission.
How much of my donation reaches Blackrock Charities Funds?
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 0% of Blackrock Charities Funds'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 Blackrock Charities Funds's overheads?
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 86% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 86% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Blackrock Charities Funds. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
How much does Blackrock Charities Funds spend to raise £1 of donations?
Blackrock Charities Funds reported no income from donations or legacies in its 2024 accounts, so there is no cost to raise £1 for that year. Legacies can swing from year to year, and trading income such as shop sales is not counted as donations. This is a cost figure from the accounts, not a measure of impact, and it is not part of the Clarity Score.
How much income does Blackrock Charities Funds receive?
Blackrock Charities Funds reported £37m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Blackrock Charities Funds's accounts up to date?
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-04-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Blackrock Charities Funds based?
Blackrock Charities Funds's registered contact address is in London (EC2N 2DL). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on community.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Blackrock Charities Funds?
The register does not record Blackrock Charities Funds as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
When was Blackrock Charities Funds registered as a charity?
Blackrock Charities Funds was entered on the register on 3 April 2019.
How does CharityCompare score Blackrock Charities Funds?
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Blackrock Charities Funds'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 Blackrock Charities Funds's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.