Common questions about Barts Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Barts Charity a good charity? +
Barts Charity scores 73 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 81% 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 Barts Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Barts Charity as a registered charity (charity number 212563). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=212563&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 Barts Charity's charity number? +
Barts Charity's charity number is 212563. 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 Barts Charity's charity rating? +
Barts Charity scores 73 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 Barts Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Barts Charity. 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 Barts Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 81% of Barts Charity'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 Barts Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 19% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 20% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Barts Charity. Barts Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Barts Charity receive? +
Barts Charity reported £13m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Barts Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Barts Charity based? +
Barts Charity's registered contact address is in London (EC1A 9BU). It tells the regulator it operates in Barking and Dagenham, City of London, Hackney, Newham, Redbridge, Tower Hamlets, with a focus on health.
How much is Barts Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Barts Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £200,001–£250,000 (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 Barts Charity's money come from? +
Barts Charity reported £13m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were investments £9.7m (75%), donations and legacies £3.2m (25%), trading and fundraising events £4,000 (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.3m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Barts Charity? +
The register records Barts Charity 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 Barts Charity's trustees paid? +
Barts Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Barts Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Barts Charity: Barts and the London Charity Trustee and Related Charities; St Bartholomew's and the Royal London Charitable Foundation; Barts and the London Charity and Related Charities.
When was Barts Charity registered as a charity? +
Barts Charity was entered on the register on 20 February 1997. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07168381).
How does CharityCompare score Barts Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Barts Charity'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 Barts Charity'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.