Common questions about Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust a good charity? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust scores 90 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 82% 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1118947). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1118947&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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's charity number? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's charity number is 1118947. 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's charity rating? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust scores 90 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Alexander Devine Children's Cancer 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 82% of Alexander Devine Children's Cancer 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 18% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 19% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust. Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust receive? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust reported £2.8m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-09). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust based? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's registered contact address is in Slough (SL6 3LU). It tells the regulator it operates in West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, Buckinghamshire, with a focus on cancer.
How much is Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's money come from? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust reported £2.8m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.4m (85%), investments £224k (8%), trading and fundraising events £183k (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2,088.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust? +
The register records Alexander Devine Children's Cancer 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's trustees paid? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits. Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust registered as a charity? +
Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust was entered on the register on 25 April 2007. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05757493).
How does CharityCompare score Alexander Devine Children's Cancer Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Alexander Devine Children's Cancer 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 Alexander Devine Children's Cancer 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.