Common questions about The British Diabetic Association's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The British Diabetic Association a good charity? +
The British Diabetic Association scores 68 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 74% 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 British Diabetic Association a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The British Diabetic Association as a registered charity (charity number 215199). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=215199&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 British Diabetic Association's charity number? +
The British Diabetic Association's charity number is 215199. 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 British Diabetic Association's charity rating? +
The British Diabetic Association scores 68 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 British Diabetic Association have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The British Diabetic Association. 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 British Diabetic Association? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 74% of The British Diabetic 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 The British Diabetic Association's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 26% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 27% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The British Diabetic Association. The British Diabetic Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 58 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 The British Diabetic Association receive? +
The British Diabetic Association reported £38m total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The British Diabetic Association's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The British Diabetic Association based? +
The British Diabetic Association's registered contact address is in London (E1 1FH). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on health.
How much is The British Diabetic Association's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The British Diabetic Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 58 employees paid more than £60,000, including 7 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £130,001–£140,000 (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 The British Diabetic Association's money come from? +
The British Diabetic Association reported £38m total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were donations and legacies £28m (73%), charitable activities £6.1m (16%), trading and fundraising events £3.9m (10%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £14m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The British Diabetic Association? +
The register records The British Diabetic 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 The British Diabetic Association's trustees paid? +
The British Diabetic Association's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The British Diabetic Association registered as a charity? +
The British Diabetic Association was entered on the register on 7 June 1967. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00339181).
How does CharityCompare score The British Diabetic Association? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The British Diabetic 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 The British Diabetic Association's most recent accounts cover 2024. Scores and figures refresh whenever we re-ingest the register, so the page reflects our latest data pull rather than a one-off review.