Common questions about Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust a good charity? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust scores 71 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 92% 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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust as a registered charity (charity number 328432). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=328432&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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's charity number? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's charity number is 328432. 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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's charity rating? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust scores 71 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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust. 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; very high reserves). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 92% of Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable 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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 8% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 9% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust. Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust receive? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust reported £864k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-07-24). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust based? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's registered contact address is in Newcastle (NE3 2DR). It tells the regulator it operates in Gateshead, Newcastle Upon Tyne City, North Tyneside, South Tyneside, Sunderland, Northumberland, with a focus on cancer.
How much is Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £60,001–£70,000 (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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's money come from? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust reported £864k total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £784k (91%), trading and fundraising events £70k (8%), investments £9,977 (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £358k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust? +
The register records Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable 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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's trustees paid? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust: Daft As a Brush Cancer Care Charitable Trust; Doxford Hall Charitable Trust; Pes Associates Charitable Trust.
When was Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust registered as a charity? +
Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust was entered on the register on 1 December 1989. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02333474).
How does CharityCompare score Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable Trust? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable 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 Daft As a Brush Cancer Patient Care Charitable 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.