Common questions about Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity a good charity? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity scores 59 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) 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 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1053584). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1053584&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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's charity number? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's charity number is 1053584. 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's charity rating? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity scores 59 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity. 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 40% of Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 44% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 44% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity. Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity receive? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity reported £10m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2026-01-29). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity based? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's registered contact address is in London (SW3 6NT). It tells the regulator it operates in Hillingdon, Kensington and Chelsea, with a focus on health.
How much is Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's money come from? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity reported £10m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were investments £6.5m (63%), donations and legacies £3.8m (37%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity? +
The register records Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's trustees paid? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity: Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospital Charitable Fund; Royal Brompton Hospital Charitable Fund.
When was Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity registered as a charity? +
Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity was entered on the register on 8 March 1996.
How does CharityCompare score Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals 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 Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals 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.