Common questions about Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity a good charity? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity scores 56 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 74% 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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1137409). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1137409&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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's charity number? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's charity number is 1137409. 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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's charity rating? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity scores 56 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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (3 red flags on this profile: late accounts filing; high fundraising costs; sharp income decline). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 74% of Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity'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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 26% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 38% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity. Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity receive? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity reported £1.3m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-07-01). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity based? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's registered contact address is in Hemel Hempstead (HP6 6AA). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 3 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's money come from? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity reported £1.3m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £993k (76%), investments £310k (24%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity? +
The register records Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity 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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's trustees paid? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity registered as a charity? +
Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity was entered on the register on 11 August 2010. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 07340518).
How does CharityCompare score Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity'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 Roald Dahl's Marvellous Children's Charity'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.