Common questions about Cystic Fibrosis Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Cystic Fibrosis Trust a good charity? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust scores 74 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 78% 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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Cystic Fibrosis Trust as a registered charity (charity number 1079049). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1079049&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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust's charity number? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust's charity number is 1079049. 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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust's charity rating? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust scores 74 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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Cystic Fibrosis Trust. 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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 78% of Cystic Fibrosis Trust'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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 22% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 25% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Cystic Fibrosis Trust. Cystic Fibrosis Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust receive? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust reported £12m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Cystic Fibrosis Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-09-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Cystic Fibrosis Trust based? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust's registered contact address is in London (EC3A 5EB). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on disability.
How much is Cystic Fibrosis Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Cystic Fibrosis Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust's money come from? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust reported £12m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £10m (84%), trading and fundraising events £1.3m (10%), investments £655k (5%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Cystic Fibrosis Trust? +
The register records Cystic Fibrosis Trust 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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust's trustees paid? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Cystic Fibrosis Trust registered as a charity? +
Cystic Fibrosis Trust was entered on the register on 21 January 2000. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03880213).
How does CharityCompare score Cystic Fibrosis Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Cystic Fibrosis Trust'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 Cystic Fibrosis Trust'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.