Common questions about Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children a good charity? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children scores 46 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 23% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) and its accounts are late. 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children as a registered charity (charity number 1170125). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1170125&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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's charity number? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's charity number is 1170125. 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's charity rating? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children scores 46 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (2 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 23% of Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children'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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 77% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 77% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children. Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children receive? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children reported £15m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-30). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children based? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's registered contact address is in Walsall (WS11 7GF). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's money come from? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children reported £15m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £13m (83%), donations and legacies £2.5m (16%), investments £40k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £141k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children? +
The register records Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children 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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's trustees paid? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children registered as a charity? +
Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children was entered on the register on 10 November 2016.
How does CharityCompare score Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children'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 Newlife the Charity for Disabled Children'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.