Common questions about Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity a good charity? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity scores 50 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 63% 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1058704). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1058704&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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's charity number? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's charity number is 1058704. 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's charity rating? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity scores 50 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight; high fundraising costs; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 63% of Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 37% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 40% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
How much income does Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity receive? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity reported £1.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity based? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's registered contact address is in Luton (LU4 0DZ). It tells the regulator it operates in Central Bedfordshire, Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Hertfordshire, Luton, Milton Keynes, with a focus on health.
Where does Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's money come from? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity reported £1.2m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £990k (80%), trading and fundraising events £190k (15%), investments £43k (3%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £380k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity? +
The register records Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity's trustees paid? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity: The Luton and Dunstable Hospital Charitable Fund.
When was Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity registered as a charity? +
Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity was entered on the register on 16 October 1996.
How does CharityCompare score Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS 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 Bedfordshire Hospitals NHS 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.