Common questions about Children's Cancer North's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Children's Cancer North a good charity? +
Children's Cancer North scores 60 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) 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 late. 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 Children's Cancer North a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Children's Cancer North as a registered charity (charity number 1189748). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1189748&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 Children's Cancer North's charity number? +
Children's Cancer North's charity number is 1189748. 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 Children's Cancer North's charity rating? +
Children's Cancer North scores 60 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 Children's Cancer North have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Children's Cancer North. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; 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 Children's Cancer North? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 54% of Children's Cancer North'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 Children's Cancer North'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 (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Children's Cancer North. The register does not show individual salaries; senior pay is disclosed in the trustees' annual report and accounts.
How much income does Children's Cancer North receive? +
Children's Cancer North reported £947k total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Children's Cancer North's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-27). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Children's Cancer North based? +
Children's Cancer North's registered contact address is in Newcastle (NE1 7RU). It tells the regulator it operates in Cumbria, Darlington, Durham, Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, with a focus on cancer.
Where does Children's Cancer North's money come from? +
Children's Cancer North reported £947k total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £475k (50%), donations and legacies £403k (43%), investments £69k (7%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £60k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Children's Cancer North? +
The register records Children's Cancer North 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 Children's Cancer North's trustees paid? +
Children's Cancer North's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Children's Cancer North previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Children's Cancer North: North of England Children's Cancer Fund.
When was Children's Cancer North registered as a charity? +
Children's Cancer North was entered on the register on 2 June 2020.
How does CharityCompare score Children's Cancer North? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Children's Cancer North'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 Children's Cancer North's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.