Common questions about Frimley Health Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Frimley Health Charity a good charity? +
Frimley Health Charity scores 55 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 63% 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 Frimley Health Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Frimley Health Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1049600). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1049600&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 Frimley Health Charity's charity number? +
Frimley Health Charity's charity number is 1049600. 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 Frimley Health Charity's charity rating? +
Frimley Health Charity scores 55 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Frimley Health Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Frimley Health Charity. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight; high fundraising costs; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Frimley Health Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 63% of Frimley Health Charity'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 Frimley Health Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 36% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 56% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Frimley Health Charity. Frimley Health Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 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 Frimley Health Charity receive? +
Frimley Health Charity reported £1.9m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.
Are Frimley Health Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Frimley Health Charity based? +
Frimley Health Charity's registered contact address is in Guildford (GU16 7UJ). It tells the regulator it operates in Bracknell Forest, West Berkshire, Reading, Slough, Windsor and Maidenhead, Wokingham, with a focus on health.
How much is Frimley Health Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Frimley Health Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 2 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 Frimley Health Charity's money come from? +
Frimley Health Charity reported £1.9m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £974k (51%), donations and legacies £659k (34%), other income £483k (25%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £176k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Frimley Health Charity? +
The register records Frimley Health Charity 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 Frimley Health Charity's trustees paid? +
Frimley Health Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Frimley Health Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Frimley Health Charity: Frimley Park Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Charitable Fund; Frimley Park Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Fund; Frimley Park Hospital Charity.
When was Frimley Health Charity registered as a charity? +
Frimley Health Charity was entered on the register on 4 October 1995.
How does CharityCompare score Frimley Health Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Frimley Health Charity'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 Frimley Health Charity'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.