Common questions about East Anglia's Children's Hospices's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is East Anglia's Children's Hospices a good charity? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices scores 81 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 55% 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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists East Anglia's Children's Hospices as a registered charity (charity number 1069284). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1069284&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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices's charity number? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices's charity number is 1069284. 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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices's charity rating? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices scores 81 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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for East Anglia's Children's Hospices. 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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 55% of East Anglia's Children's Hospices'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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 45% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 45% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at East Anglia's Children's Hospices. East Anglia's Children's Hospices's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices receive? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices reported £22m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are East Anglia's Children's Hospices's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is East Anglia's Children's Hospices based? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices's registered contact address is in Cambridge (CB24 6AB). It tells the regulator it operates in Cambridgeshire, Essex, Norfolk, Suffolk, with a focus on hospices.
How much is East Anglia's Children's Hospices's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. East Anglia's Children's Hospices's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices's money come from? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices reported £22m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £9.5m (43%), trading and fundraising events £8.9m (40%), charitable activities £3.2m (14%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £3.1m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to East Anglia's Children's Hospices? +
The register records East Anglia's Children's Hospices 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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices's trustees paid? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was East Anglia's Children's Hospices registered as a charity? +
East Anglia's Children's Hospices was entered on the register on 24 April 1998. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03550187).
How does CharityCompare score East Anglia's Children's Hospices? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in East Anglia's Children's Hospices'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 East Anglia's Children's Hospices'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.