Our fee structure

Any organisation that carries out charitable fundraising in England, Wales or Northern Ireland can apply to register with the Fundraising Regulator. 

Charity registration fees

Charity registration fees are scaled on the basis of fundraising expenditure. If your charity spends over £100,000 on fundraising each year, we will invite your organisation to make a voluntary contribution to support the cost of fundraising regulation through the annual fundraising levy. Registration is also open to charities which spend less than £100,000 a year on their fundraising.

In September 2024 and 2025 the levy and registration fees will increase. You can find full details of the upcoming changes here.

Fee scale 2024

Defining fundraising expenditure

Some charities may spend more or less on fundraising than the previous year. We conduct assessments of an organisation’s accounts as most recently filed with the Charity Commission in England and Wales or Northern Ireland. This means we can accurately calculate the amount they should pay in registration fees.

We define fundraising expenditure as the costs incurred by a charity when individuals or third parties make contributions to it for its charitable purposes, and any other costs related to charitable fundraising. This includes the costs of:

• staging events, including performance fees and licence fees
• seeking donations, grants and legacies
• operating membership schemes and social lotteries
• advertising, marketing and direct mail materials including publicity costs (not associated with educational material) designed wholly or mainly to further the charity’s purposes; and
• contracting agents to raise funds on behalf of a charity.

We also include:

• a relevant proportion of organisational overheads and support costs for governance, IT, finance, accommodation and HR
• the cost of all staff a charity employs to carry out fundraising activity - these staff can be engaged in public or private fundraising.

We exclude fundraising expenditure on trading activities, paying fees for investment advice or portfolio management.

Fundraising turnover

Non charities that carry out charitable fundraising are charged on the basis of fundraising turnover.

Fee scale