Common questions about Leeds Hospitals Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Leeds Hospitals Charity a good charity? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity scores 74 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 66% 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Leeds Hospitals Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1170369). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1170369&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 Leeds Hospitals Charity's charity number? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity's charity number is 1170369. 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity's charity rating? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity scores 74 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Leeds Hospitals 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 66% of Leeds Hospitals 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 34% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 38% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Leeds Hospitals Charity. Leeds Hospitals Charity's annual return for the year ending 30 March 2025 reports 7 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity receive? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity reported £7.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Leeds Hospitals Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Leeds Hospitals Charity based? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on health.
How much is Leeds Hospitals Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Leeds Hospitals Charity's annual return for the year ending 30 March 2025 reports 7 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity's money come from? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity reported £7.2m total income for the year ending 30 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £4.4m (61%), trading and fundraising events £1.9m (27%), investments £905k (13%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.4m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Leeds Hospitals Charity? +
The register records Leeds Hospitals 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 Leeds Hospitals Charity's trustees paid? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity's annual return for the year ending 30 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Leeds Hospitals Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Leeds Hospitals Charity: Leeds Hospital Charitable Foundation; Leeds Cares.
When was Leeds Hospitals Charity registered as a charity? +
Leeds Hospitals Charity was entered on the register on 24 November 2016. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 10492128).
How does CharityCompare score Leeds Hospitals Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Leeds Hospitals 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 Leeds Hospitals 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.