Common questions about Demelza Hospice Care for Children's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Demelza Hospice Care for Children a good charity? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children scores 82 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 58% 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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Demelza Hospice Care for Children as a registered charity (charity number 1039651). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1039651&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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children's charity number? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children's charity number is 1039651. 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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children's charity rating? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children scores 82 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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Demelza Hospice Care for Children. 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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 58% of Demelza Hospice Care for Children'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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 42% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 42% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Demelza Hospice Care for Children. Demelza Hospice Care for Children's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 10 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children receive? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children reported £17m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Demelza Hospice Care for Children's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-27). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Demelza Hospice Care for Children based? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children's registered contact address is in Maidstone (ME9 8DZ). It tells the regulator it operates in London, East Sussex, Kent, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Demelza Hospice Care for Children's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Demelza Hospice Care for Children's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 10 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children's money come from? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children reported £17m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £6.6m (38%), trading and fundraising events £6.2m (36%), charitable activities £4.4m (25%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £3.2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Demelza Hospice Care for Children? +
The register records Demelza Hospice Care for Children 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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children's trustees paid? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Demelza Hospice Care for Children previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Demelza Hospice Care for Children: Demelza House Childrens Hospice.
When was Demelza Hospice Care for Children registered as a charity? +
Demelza Hospice Care for Children was entered on the register on 21 July 1994. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02948500).
How does CharityCompare score Demelza Hospice Care for Children? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Demelza Hospice Care for Children'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 Demelza Hospice Care for Children'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.