Common questions about Breast Cancer Now's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Breast Cancer Now a good charity? +
Breast Cancer Now scores 78 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 54% 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 Breast Cancer Now a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Breast Cancer Now as a registered charity (charity number 1160558). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1160558&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 Breast Cancer Now's charity number? +
Breast Cancer Now's charity number is 1160558. 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 Breast Cancer Now's charity rating? +
Breast Cancer Now scores 78 out of 100 on CharityCompare (4 stars — Good). 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 Breast Cancer Now have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Breast Cancer Now. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: high fundraising costs). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Breast Cancer Now? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 54% of Breast Cancer Now'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 Breast Cancer Now's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 46% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 47% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Breast Cancer Now. Breast Cancer Now's annual return for the year ending 31 July 2025 reports 37 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Breast Cancer Now receive? +
Breast Cancer Now reported £59m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Breast Cancer Now'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 Breast Cancer Now based? +
Breast Cancer Now's registered contact address is in London (E1 8QS). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, United States, with a focus on cancer.
How much is Breast Cancer Now's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Breast Cancer Now's annual return for the year ending 31 July 2025 reports 37 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Breast Cancer Now's money come from? +
Breast Cancer Now reported £59m total income for the year ending 31 July 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £39m (65%), trading and fundraising events £11m (19%), charitable activities £8m (13%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £5m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Breast Cancer Now? +
The register records Breast Cancer Now 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 Breast Cancer Now's trustees paid? +
Breast Cancer Now's annual return for the year ending 31 July 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Breast Cancer Now previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Breast Cancer Now: Project Beacon; Breast Cancer Campaign and Breakthrough Breast Cancer; Breast Cancer Care and Breast Canter Now; Breast Cancer Care and Breast Care Now; Breast Cancer Care and Breast Cancer Now.
When was Breast Cancer Now registered as a charity? +
Breast Cancer Now was entered on the register on 18 February 2015. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09347608).
How does CharityCompare score Breast Cancer Now? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Breast Cancer Now'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 Breast Cancer Now'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.