Common questions about The Babraham Institute's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Babraham Institute a good charity? +
The Babraham Institute scores 73 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 72% 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 The Babraham Institute a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Babraham Institute as a registered charity (charity number 1053902). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1053902&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 The Babraham Institute's charity number? +
The Babraham Institute's charity number is 1053902. 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 The Babraham Institute's charity rating? +
The Babraham Institute scores 73 out of 100 on CharityCompare (3 stars — Needs improvement). 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 The Babraham Institute have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Babraham Institute. 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 The Babraham Institute? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 72% of The Babraham Institute'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 The Babraham Institute's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 27% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 28% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Babraham Institute. The Babraham Institute's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 48 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (3 employees). Individual salaries, including the chief executive's, are disclosed in the trustees' annual report rather than on the register.
How much income does The Babraham Institute receive? +
The Babraham Institute reported £48m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Babraham Institute's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-12-20). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Babraham Institute based? +
The Babraham Institute's registered contact address is in Cambridge (CB22 3AT). It tells the regulator it operates in Cambridgeshire, with a focus on health.
How much is The Babraham Institute's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Babraham Institute's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 48 employees paid more than £60,000, including 9 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £150,001–£200,000 (3 employees). 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 The Babraham Institute's money come from? +
The Babraham Institute reported £48m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £29m (61%), trading and fundraising events £18m (38%), investments £756k (2%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Babraham Institute? +
The register does not record The Babraham Institute as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The Babraham Institute's trustees paid? +
The Babraham Institute's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The Babraham Institute registered as a charity? +
The Babraham Institute was entered on the register on 20 March 1996. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 03011737).
How does CharityCompare score The Babraham Institute? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Babraham Institute'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 The Babraham Institute'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.