Common questions about Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent a good charity? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 73% 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent as a registered charity (charity number 293968). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=293968&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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's charity number? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's charity number is 293968. 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's charity rating? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent scores 79 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent. 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 73% of Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent'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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 27% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 29% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent. Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent receive? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent reported £19m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-22). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent based? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's registered contact address is in Canterbury (CT2 8JA). It tells the regulator it operates in Kent, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 12 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's money come from? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent reported £19m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £8m (42%), charitable activities £5.2m (27%), donations and legacies £4.9m (26%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £3.5m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent? +
The register records Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent 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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's trustees paid? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent registered as a charity? +
Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent was entered on the register on 28 August 1986. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02000560).
How does CharityCompare score Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent'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 Pilgrims Hospices in East Kent'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.