Common questions about Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a good charity? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland scores 80 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 69% 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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland as a registered charity (charity number 205395). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=205395&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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's charity number? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's charity number is 205395. 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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's charity rating? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. 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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 69% of Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 31% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 32% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland receive? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reported £7.9m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-09). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland based? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's registered contact address is in London (SE1 8QD). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on disability.
How much is Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's money come from? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland reported £7.9m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £7.1m (90%), investments £554k (7%), trading and fundraising events £194k (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £2.6m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? +
The register records Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland 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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's trustees paid? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland registered as a charity? +
Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland was entered on the register on 16 May 1962. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00705357).
How does CharityCompare score Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'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 Muscular Dystrophy Group of Great Britain and Northern Ireland'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.