Common questions about Marie Curie's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Marie Curie a good charity? +
Marie Curie scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 71% 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 Marie Curie a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Marie Curie as a registered charity (charity number 207994). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=207994&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 Marie Curie's charity number? +
Marie Curie's charity number is 207994. 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 Marie Curie's charity rating? +
Marie Curie scores 80 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 Marie Curie have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Marie Curie. 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 Marie Curie? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 71% of Marie Curie'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 Marie Curie's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 29% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 29% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Marie Curie. Marie Curie's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 138 employees paid more than £60,000, including 16 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (3 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does Marie Curie receive? +
Marie Curie reported £181m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Marie Curie's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-11). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Marie Curie based? +
Marie Curie's registered contact address is in London (SW11 7BW). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on cancer.
How much is Marie Curie's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Marie Curie's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 138 employees paid more than £60,000, including 16 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (3 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 Marie Curie's money come from? +
Marie Curie reported £181m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £110m (61%), charitable activities £52m (29%), trading and fundraising events £18m (10%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £48m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Marie Curie? +
The register records Marie Curie 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 Marie Curie's trustees paid? +
Marie Curie's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Marie Curie previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Marie Curie: Marie Curie Cancer Care; The Marie Curie Memorial Foundation.
When was Marie Curie registered as a charity? +
Marie Curie was entered on the register on 22 September 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00507597).
How does CharityCompare score Marie Curie? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Marie Curie'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 Marie Curie'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.