Common questions about Douglas Macmillan Hospice's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Douglas Macmillan Hospice a good charity? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice scores 88 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 76% 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Douglas Macmillan Hospice as a registered charity (charity number 1071613). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1071613&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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice's charity number? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice's charity number is 1071613. 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice's charity rating? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice scores 88 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Douglas Macmillan Hospice. 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 76% of Douglas Macmillan 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 24% 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice. Douglas Macmillan Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (2 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Douglas Macmillan Hospice receive? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice reported £22m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Douglas Macmillan Hospice's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Douglas Macmillan Hospice based? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice's registered contact address is in Stoke-on-Trent (ST3 3NZ). It tells the regulator it operates in Staffordshire, Stoke-on-trent City, with a focus on cancer.
How much is Douglas Macmillan Hospice's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Douglas Macmillan Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 7 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (2 employees). 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice's money come from? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice reported £22m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £9.3m (43%), donations and legacies £7.5m (34%), charitable activities £4.4m (20%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £4.4m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Douglas Macmillan Hospice? +
The register records Douglas Macmillan 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice's trustees paid? +
Douglas Macmillan 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 Douglas Macmillan Hospice registered as a charity? +
Douglas Macmillan Hospice was entered on the register on 18 September 1998. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03615904).
How does CharityCompare score Douglas Macmillan Hospice? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Douglas Macmillan 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 Douglas Macmillan 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.