Common questions about National Grocers Benevolent Fund's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is National Grocers Benevolent Fund a good charity? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund scores 76 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 40% 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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists National Grocers Benevolent Fund as a registered charity (charity number 1095897). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1095897&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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund's charity number? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund's charity number is 1095897. 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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund's charity rating? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund scores 76 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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for National Grocers Benevolent Fund. 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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 40% of National Grocers Benevolent Fund'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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 60% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 61% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at National Grocers Benevolent Fund. National Grocers Benevolent Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund receive? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund reported £27m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are National Grocers Benevolent Fund's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-25). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is National Grocers Benevolent Fund based? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund's registered contact address is in Guildford (GU47 9DN). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is National Grocers Benevolent Fund's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. National Grocers Benevolent Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 9 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund's money come from? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund reported £27m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £20m (72%), donations and legacies £7.3m (27%), investments £407k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to National Grocers Benevolent Fund? +
The register records National Grocers Benevolent Fund 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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund's trustees paid? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was National Grocers Benevolent Fund previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for National Grocers Benevolent Fund: Caravan.
When was National Grocers Benevolent Fund registered as a charity? +
National Grocers Benevolent Fund was entered on the register on 10 February 2003. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04620683).
How does CharityCompare score National Grocers Benevolent Fund? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in National Grocers Benevolent Fund'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 National Grocers Benevolent Fund'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.