Community · Reg 1146166
Clarity score
Poor
Historical financial rating & register information
Register checked 23 October 2026 · latest accounts 2025
Charity Assets Trust scores 39/100 (2 stars, Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2025 (£17m 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.
Income
£17m
Accounts 2025-10-15
Spending
£5.4m
Accounts 2025-10-15
Charitable activities
0%
Share of spending, accounts 2025-10-15
Accounts filing
On time
Charity Commission
The Charity Asstes Trust is a common investment fund established under section 24 of The Charities Act 1993. It follows an 'absolute return' investment strategy. This means that the Manager will not endeavour to track or 'outperform' a specific benchmark or stock market index, but instead seek to generate consistent positive returns regardless of the prevailing market conditions.
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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Accounts period 2024-10-16 to 2025-10-15 · Source: Charity Commission filings
| Category | Amount | % of spend |
|---|---|---|
| Total income | £17m | — |
| Total expenditure | £5.4m | — |
| Charitable activities | £0 | 0% |
| Fundraising | £5.4m | 100% |
| 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.
Charity Assets Trust reported no income from donations or legacies in 2025, so there is no figure for that year.
| Year | Donations & legacies | Raising-funds spend | Cost per £1 |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | £0 | £5.4m | No donations |
| 2024 | £0 | £5.7m | No donations |
| 2023 | £0 | £4.3m | No donations |
| 2022 | £0 | £2.3m | No donations |
| 2021 | £0 | £1.6m | 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.
Reported totals for 2025 compared with 2024. Changes can reflect the accounting period, restricted grants or restructuring as well as the charity’s work.
These are annual figures. The Clarity Score may use averages across several disclosed years. Source: official accounts.
Latest accounts (2025) · £5.4m spent
From the annual return
Answers Charity Assets Trust gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission for the year ending 15 October 2025, plus its register entry. These are the charity's own disclosures, not part of the Clarity Score.
Charity Assets Trust reported £17m total income for the year ending 15 October 2025. The largest sources were investments £17m (100%).
Cash at year end: £26m · unrestricted funds: £546m · restricted funds: £0. Restricted funds can only be spent on purposes set by the donor.
The register does not record Charity Assets Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Charity Assets Trust's annual return for the year ending 15 October 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
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”.
Income rose 656% from £2.3m in 2021 to £17m in 2025; spending was £5.4m in 2025.
| Year | Income | Spending | Charitable activities |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | £17m | £5.4m | £0 |
| 2024 | £17m | £5.7m | £0 |
| 2023 | £9.2m | £4.3m | £0 |
| 2022 | £3.1m | £2.3m | £0 |
| 2021 | £2.3m | £1.6m | £0 |
Cause spend is plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission filings
Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report.
Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies.
57/100
| 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. | 100% | 15/15 pts |
| Trustee oversight Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three). | 33% | 1 trustee · 5/15 pts |
| Declared policies Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return. | 30% | 3/10 pts |
Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts.
50/100
| 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. | 100% | 10/10 pts · 3-year average |
| Liabilities to assets 0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt. | 100% | 2% · 5/5 pts |
How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios.
5/100
| 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). | 10% | 37p per £1 income · 1/10 pts (3-year average, disclosed years) |
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 |
The share of each group scoring at or below Charity Assets Trust, 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.
Scores at or above 0% of 21 charities with the same primary cause, income band and latest accounts year · 39/100 vs 73 peer average.
Scores at or above 1% of 930 charities in its income band · 39/100 vs 76 peer average.
Scores at or above 3% of 201 charities in this cause · 39/100 vs 71 peer average.
The causes this charity is classified under, and other charities working nearby.
Top-rated peers by CharityCompare score
Evidence and interpretation
In 2025, reported income was £17,257,000 and expenditure was £5,419,000. Income exceeded expenditure by £11,838,000. This annual balance is not the charity’s available cash or unrestricted reserves.
Income fell 1.2% compared with 2024. 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
Reported beneficiaries: Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies.
How it works: Provides Services.
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Explore source-checked support routesClassifications supplied to the register; extract 2026-10-23. Register contact and activity details · Website listed for this charity
Look beyond the score
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 (2025-10-15). 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.
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.
Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported.
Accounts filed on time
up to date · last filing
Trustee board size (3–12)
1 trustees on the Charity Commission register
Workforce on register
0 employees · 0 volunteers
Fundraising Regulator
Status not yet checked
Separate from our financial scores. Registration records a commitment to the Code of Fundraising Practice; it does not certify every fundraising activity.
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Reg 1146166
Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission.
View on Charity Commission →Medium confidence — some data missing or late
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Financial source extract: 2026-09-06. Organisation identifier: 5026638. 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 .
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Common questions about Charity Assets Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Charity Assets Trust scores 39 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 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.
The register data used for this profile lists Charity Assets Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1146166). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1146166&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.
Charity Assets Trust's charity number is 1146166. 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.
Charity Assets Trust scores 39 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.
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Charity Assets Trust. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight; high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
Raise it with Charity Assets Trust first, using the complaints contact on its own website (ruffer.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.
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 0% of Charity Assets 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.
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 100% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 100% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Charity Assets Trust. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
Charity Assets Trust reported no income from donations or legacies in its 2025 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.
Charity Assets Trust reported £17m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-02-18). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Charity Assets Trust's registered contact address is in London (SW1E 5JL). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on community.
Charity Assets Trust reported £17m total income for the year ending 15 October 2025. The largest sources were investments £17m (100%).
The register does not record Charity Assets Trust as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Charity Assets Trust's annual return for the year ending 15 October 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
Charity Assets Trust was entered on the register on 29 February 2012.
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Charity Assets 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.
This profile was last updated on 6 September 2026 from the latest UK regulator data available to CharityCompare, and Charity Assets 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.