Common questions about Leonard Cheshire Disability's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Leonard Cheshire Disability a good charity? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability scores 67 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 99% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Leonard Cheshire Disability a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Leonard Cheshire Disability as a registered charity (charity number 218186). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=218186&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 Leonard Cheshire Disability's charity number? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability's charity number is 218186. 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 Leonard Cheshire Disability's charity rating? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability scores 67 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 Leonard Cheshire Disability have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Leonard Cheshire Disability. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: regulator published report; late accounts filing; poor filing history). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Leonard Cheshire Disability? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of Leonard Cheshire Disability'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 Leonard Cheshire Disability's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 1% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Leonard Cheshire Disability. Leonard Cheshire Disability's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 47 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Leonard Cheshire Disability receive? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability reported £141m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Leonard Cheshire Disability's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-10). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Leonard Cheshire Disability based? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability's registered contact address is in London (SE1 9SG). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Kenya, with a focus on disability.
How much is Leonard Cheshire Disability's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Leonard Cheshire Disability's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 47 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 Leonard Cheshire Disability's money come from? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability reported £141m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £132m (94%), other income £4.4m (3%), donations and legacies £3.4m (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.6m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Leonard Cheshire Disability? +
The register records Leonard Cheshire Disability 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 Leonard Cheshire Disability's trustees paid? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Leonard Cheshire Disability previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Leonard Cheshire Disability: The Leonard Cheshire Foundation.
When was Leonard Cheshire Disability registered as a charity? +
Leonard Cheshire Disability was entered on the register on 10 July 1985. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00552847).
How does CharityCompare score Leonard Cheshire Disability? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Leonard Cheshire Disability'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 Leonard Cheshire Disability'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.