Common questions about Motor Neurone Disease Association's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Motor Neurone Disease Association a good charity? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association scores 90 out of 100 (5 stars — Exceptional) 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 Motor Neurone Disease Association a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Motor Neurone Disease Association as a registered charity (charity number 294354). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=294354&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 Motor Neurone Disease Association's charity number? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association's charity number is 294354. 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 Motor Neurone Disease Association's charity rating? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association scores 90 out of 100 on CharityCompare (5 stars — Exceptional). 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 Motor Neurone Disease Association have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Motor Neurone Disease Association. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Motor Neurone Disease Association? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 71% of Motor Neurone Disease Association'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 Motor Neurone Disease Association's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 19% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 20% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Motor Neurone Disease Association. Motor Neurone Disease Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 24 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Motor Neurone Disease Association receive? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association reported £41m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Motor Neurone Disease Association's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-09-15). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Motor Neurone Disease Association based? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association's registered contact address is in Northampton (NN3 6BJ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Northern Ireland, with a focus on disability.
How much is Motor Neurone Disease Association's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Motor Neurone Disease Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 24 employees paid more than £60,000, including 2 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Motor Neurone Disease Association's money come from? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association reported £41m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £36m (87%), investments £1.8m (4%), trading and fundraising events £1.8m (4%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £11m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Motor Neurone Disease Association? +
The register records Motor Neurone Disease Association 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 Motor Neurone Disease Association's trustees paid? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Motor Neurone Disease Association registered as a charity? +
Motor Neurone Disease Association was entered on the register on 14 May 1986. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02007023).
How does CharityCompare score Motor Neurone Disease Association? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Motor Neurone Disease Association'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 Motor Neurone Disease Association's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.