Common questions about Mission Care's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Mission Care a good charity? +
Mission Care scores 71 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 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 Mission Care a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Mission Care as a registered charity (charity number 284967). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=284967&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 Mission Care's charity number? +
Mission Care's charity number is 284967. 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 Mission Care's charity rating? +
Mission Care scores 71 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 Mission Care have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Mission Care. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Mission Care? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 99% of Mission Care'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 Mission Care'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 Mission Care. Mission Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Mission Care receive? +
Mission Care reported £18m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Mission Care'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 Mission Care based? +
Mission Care's registered contact address is in London (BR7 5AB). It tells the regulator it operates in Bromley, Southwark, Kent, with a focus on international aid.
How much is Mission Care's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Mission Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £250,001–£300,000 (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 Mission Care's money come from? +
Mission Care reported £18m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £17m (98%), donations and legacies £222k (1%), trading and fundraising events £81k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £215k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Mission Care? +
The register records Mission Care 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 Mission Care's trustees paid? +
Mission Care's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Mission Care previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Mission Care: Bermondsey and Brook Lane Medical Mission; Bermondsey Medical Mission; Brook Lane Medical Mission.
When was Mission Care registered as a charity? +
Mission Care was entered on the register on 27 June 1982.
How does CharityCompare score Mission Care? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Mission Care'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 Mission Care'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.