Common questions about Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Saint John of God Hospitaller Services a good charity? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services scores 75 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 98% 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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Saint John of God Hospitaller Services as a registered charity (charity number 1108428). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1108428&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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's charity number? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's charity number is 1108428. 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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's charity rating? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services scores 75 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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Saint John of God Hospitaller Services. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). For formal complaints about a charity, contact the Charity Commission, OSCR, CCNI or the Fundraising Regulator as appropriate.
How much of my donation reaches Saint John of God Hospitaller Services? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 98% of Saint John of God Hospitaller Services'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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 1% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 2% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Saint John of God Hospitaller Services. Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services receive? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services reported £30m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-07-28). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Saint John of God Hospitaller Services based? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's register entry is at United Kingdom. It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on poverty relief.
How much is Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 13 employees paid more than £60,000, including 3 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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's money come from? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services reported £30m total income for the year ending 31 December 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £29m (99%), donations and legacies £292k (1%), investments £65k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £18k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Saint John of God Hospitaller Services? +
The register records Saint John of God Hospitaller Services 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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's trustees paid? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Saint John of God Hospitaller Services previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Saint John of God Hospitaller Services: Saint John of God Care Services.
When was Saint John of God Hospitaller Services registered as a charity? +
Saint John of God Hospitaller Services was entered on the register on 4 March 2005. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 05324279).
How does CharityCompare score Saint John of God Hospitaller Services? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Saint John of God Hospitaller Services'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 Saint John of God Hospitaller Services'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.