Common questions about Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity a good charity? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 60% 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1160024). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1160024&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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's charity number? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's charity number is 1160024. 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's charity rating? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity scores 79 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 60% of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 40% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 43% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity. Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 38 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity receive? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity reported £140m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity based? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's registered contact address is in London (WC1N 1LE). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on health.
How much is Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 38 employees paid more than £60,000, including 6 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's money come from? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity reported £140m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £115m (82%), trading and fundraising events £12m (9%), investments £11m (8%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £30m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity? +
The register records Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's trustees paid? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity registered as a charity? +
Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity was entered on the register on 19 January 2015. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 09338724).
How does CharityCompare score Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's 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 Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's 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.