Common questions about The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited a good charity? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited scores 49 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 91% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are missing. 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 Newtown Cultural Project Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Newtown Cultural Project Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1042218). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1042218&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 Newtown Cultural Project Limited's charity number? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's charity number is 1042218. 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 Newtown Cultural Project Limited's charity rating? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited scores 49 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 The Newtown Cultural Project Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How do I complain about The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +
Raise it with The Newtown Cultural Project Limited first, using the complaints contact on its own website (the-drum.org.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 The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 91% of The Newtown Cultural Project 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 Newtown Cultural Project Limited's overheads? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's recent UK regulator filings do not disclose a fundraising or governance cost split, so no official overhead percentage is available. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
How much does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited spend to raise £1 of donations? +
There is no figure for The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's 2015 accounts: the register has no donations split for this 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 The Newtown Cultural Project Limited receive? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited reported £1.5m total income in its 2015 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: missing. CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Newtown Cultural Project Limited based? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's registered contact address is in Birmingham (B6 4UU). It tells the regulator it operates in Birmingham City, with a focus on arts & culture.
Where does The Newtown Cultural Project Limited's money come from? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited reported £1.5m total income for the year ending 31 March 2015. The largest sources were donations and legacies £1.1m (76%), charitable activities £213k (14%), trading and fundraising events £148k (10%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +
The register records The Newtown Cultural Project 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.
When was The Newtown Cultural Project Limited registered as a charity? +
The Newtown Cultural Project Limited was entered on the register on 21 November 1994. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02959127).
How does CharityCompare score The Newtown Cultural Project Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Newtown Cultural Project 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 Newtown Cultural Project Limited's most recent accounts cover 2015. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.