Common questions about Stroke Association's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is Stroke Association a good charity? +
Stroke Association scores 86 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 79% 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 Stroke Association a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists Stroke Association as a registered charity (charity number 211015). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=211015&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 Stroke Association's charity number? +
Stroke Association's charity number is 211015. 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 Stroke Association's charity rating? +
Stroke Association scores 86 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 Stroke Association have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for Stroke Association. 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 Stroke Association? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 79% of Stroke Association'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 Stroke Association's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 21% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 22% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at Stroke Association. Stroke Association's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 37 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 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 Stroke Association receive? +
Stroke Association reported £44m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are Stroke Association's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-07). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is Stroke Association based? +
Stroke Association's registered contact address is in London (EC1V 2PR). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, Isle of Man, Jersey, with a focus on disability.
How much is Stroke Association's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. Stroke Association's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 37 employees paid more than £60,000, including 5 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 Stroke Association's money come from? +
Stroke Association reported £44m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £31m (71%), charitable activities £11m (25%), other income £1m (2%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £19m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to Stroke Association? +
The register records Stroke Association 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 Stroke Association's trustees paid? +
Stroke Association's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was Stroke Association previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for Stroke Association: The Stroke Association.
When was Stroke Association registered as a charity? +
Stroke Association was entered on the register on 14 January 1963. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00061274).
How does CharityCompare score Stroke Association? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in Stroke Association'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 Stroke Association'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.