Common questions about London Transport Museum Limited's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is London Transport Museum Limited a good charity? +
London Transport Museum Limited scores 81 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) 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 London Transport Museum Limited a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists London Transport Museum Limited as a registered charity (charity number 1123122). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1123122&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 London Transport Museum Limited's charity number? +
London Transport Museum Limited's charity number is 1123122. 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 London Transport Museum Limited's charity rating? +
London Transport Museum Limited 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 London Transport Museum Limited have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for London Transport Museum Limited. 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 London Transport Museum Limited? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 66% of London Transport Museum Limited'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 London Transport Museum Limited'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 34% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at London Transport Museum Limited. London Transport Museum Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 London Transport Museum Limited receive? +
London Transport Museum Limited reported £20m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are London Transport Museum Limited's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-19). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is London Transport Museum Limited based? +
London Transport Museum Limited's registered contact address is in London (WC2E 7BB). It tells the regulator it operates in London, with a focus on heritage.
How much is London Transport Museum Limited's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. London Transport Museum Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 London Transport Museum Limited's money come from? +
London Transport Museum Limited reported £20m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £7.9m (40%), charitable activities £6.6m (33%), donations and legacies £5.2m (26%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £91k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to London Transport Museum Limited? +
The register records London Transport Museum Limited 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 London Transport Museum Limited's trustees paid? +
London Transport Museum Limited's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was London Transport Museum Limited registered as a charity? +
London Transport Museum Limited was entered on the register on 7 March 2008. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 06495761).
How does CharityCompare score London Transport Museum Limited? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in London Transport Museum Limited'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 London Transport Museum Limited'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.