Common questions about Royal Trinity Hospice's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Royal Trinity Hospice a good charity? +
Royal Trinity Hospice scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 66% 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 Royal Trinity Hospice a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Royal Trinity Hospice as a registered charity (charity number 1013945). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1013945&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 Trinity Hospice's charity number? +
Royal Trinity Hospice's charity number is 1013945. 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 Trinity Hospice's charity rating? +
Royal Trinity Hospice 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 Royal Trinity Hospice have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Royal Trinity Hospice. 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 Royal Trinity Hospice? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 66% of Royal Trinity Hospice'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 Trinity Hospice's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 34% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 34% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Royal Trinity Hospice. Royal Trinity Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Trinity Hospice receive? +
Royal Trinity Hospice reported £18m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are Royal Trinity Hospice's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-11-14). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Royal Trinity Hospice based? +
Royal Trinity Hospice's registered contact address is in London (SW4 0RN). It tells the regulator it operates in City of Westminster, Hammersmith and Fulham, Kensington and Chelsea, Lambeth, Merton, Richmond Upon Thames, with a focus on hospices.
How much is Royal Trinity Hospice's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Royal Trinity Hospice's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 23 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £120,001–£130,000 (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 Trinity Hospice's money come from? +
Royal Trinity Hospice reported £18m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were trading and fundraising events £7.4m (42%), charitable activities £5.2m (29%), donations and legacies £4.9m (27%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £1.2m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Royal Trinity Hospice? +
The register records Royal Trinity Hospice 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 Trinity Hospice's trustees paid? +
Royal Trinity Hospice'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 Trinity Hospice previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for Royal Trinity Hospice: Trinity Hospice; Trinity Hospice, Clapham.
When was Royal Trinity Hospice registered as a charity? +
Royal Trinity Hospice was entered on the register on 28 August 1992. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 02673845).
How does CharityCompare score Royal Trinity Hospice? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Royal Trinity Hospice'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 Trinity Hospice'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.