Common questions about Berkshire Healthcare Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Berkshire Healthcare Charity a good charity? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 90% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Berkshire Healthcare Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1049733). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1049733&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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity's charity number? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity's charity number is 1049733. 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity's charity rating? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity scores 70 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Berkshire Healthcare 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 90% of Berkshire Healthcare Charity's total spending went to charitable activities. 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 10% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 36% of expenditure (2025); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Berkshire Healthcare Charity. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
How much income does Berkshire Healthcare Charity receive? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity reported £641k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Berkshire Healthcare Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Berkshire Healthcare Charity based? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity's registered contact address is in Reading (RG12 2UT). It tells the regulator it operates in Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, with a focus on disability.
Where does Berkshire Healthcare Charity's money come from? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity reported £641k total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £592k (92%), investments £48k (7%), other income £1,000 (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £55k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Berkshire Healthcare Charity? +
The register records Berkshire Healthcare 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity's trustees paid? +
Berkshire Healthcare 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 Berkshire Healthcare Charity previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Berkshire Healthcare Charity: Berkshire Health Charitable Fund and Other Related Charities.
When was Berkshire Healthcare Charity registered as a charity? +
Berkshire Healthcare Charity was entered on the register on 9 October 1995.
How does CharityCompare score Berkshire Healthcare Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Berkshire Healthcare 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 Berkshire Healthcare 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.