Common questions about Derian House Childrens Hospice's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Derian House Childrens Hospice a good charity? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice scores 70 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 73% 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 Derian House Childrens Hospice a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Derian House Childrens Hospice as a registered charity (charity number 1005165). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1005165&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 Derian House Childrens Hospice's charity number? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice's charity number is 1005165. 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 Derian House Childrens Hospice's charity rating? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice scores 70 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 Derian House Childrens Hospice have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Derian House Childrens Hospice. 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 Derian House Childrens Hospice? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 73% of Derian House Childrens Hospice'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 Derian House Childrens Hospice's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 27% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 27% of expenditure (2022–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Derian House Childrens Hospice. Derian House Childrens Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Derian House Childrens Hospice receive? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice reported £7.7m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Derian House Childrens Hospice's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-22). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Derian House Childrens Hospice based? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice's registered contact address is in Preston (PR7 1DH). It tells the regulator it operates in Bolton, Oldham, Rochdale, Salford City, Wigan, Sefton, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Derian House Childrens Hospice's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Derian House Childrens Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 5 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Derian House Childrens Hospice's money come from? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice reported £7.7m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £5.8m (75%), trading and fundraising events £1.5m (20%), investments £296k (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.9m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Derian House Childrens Hospice? +
The register records Derian House Childrens Hospice 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 Derian House Childrens Hospice's trustees paid? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Derian House Childrens Hospice registered as a charity? +
Derian House Childrens Hospice was entered on the register on 23 October 1991. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02650110).
How does CharityCompare score Derian House Childrens Hospice? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Derian House Childrens Hospice'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 Derian House Childrens Hospice'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.