Common questions about Martin House's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Martin House a good charity? +
Martin House scores 84 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 61% 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 Martin House a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Martin House as a registered charity (charity number 517919). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=517919&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 Martin House's charity number? +
Martin House's charity number is 517919. 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 Martin House's charity rating? +
Martin House scores 84 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 Martin House have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Martin House. 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 Martin House? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 61% of Martin House'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 Martin House's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 37% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 37% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Martin House. Martin House's annual return for the year ending 30 April 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Martin House receive? +
Martin House reported £17m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Martin House's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-22). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Martin House based? +
Martin House's registered contact address is in Leeds (LS23 6TX). It tells the regulator it operates in Bradford City, Calderdale, Kirklees, Leeds City, City of Wakefield, North Yorkshire, with a focus on disability.
How much is Martin House's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Martin House's annual return for the year ending 30 April 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Martin House's money come from? +
Martin House reported £17m total income for the year ending 30 April 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £10m (61%), trading and fundraising events £3.7m (22%), charitable activities £2.6m (15%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.8m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Martin House? +
The register records Martin House 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 Martin House's trustees paid? +
Martin House's annual return for the year ending 30 April 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Martin House registered as a charity? +
Martin House was entered on the register on 28 April 1987. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02016332).
How does CharityCompare score Martin House? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Martin House'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 Martin House'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.