Common questions about The Brooke Hospital for Animals's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Brooke Hospital for Animals a good charity? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals scores 79 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 68% 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 Brooke Hospital for Animals a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Brooke Hospital for Animals as a registered charity (charity number 1085760). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1085760&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 Brooke Hospital for Animals's charity number? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals's charity number is 1085760. 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 Brooke Hospital for Animals's charity rating? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals 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 The Brooke Hospital for Animals have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Brooke Hospital for Animals. 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 Brooke Hospital for Animals? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 68% of The Brooke Hospital for Animals'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 Brooke Hospital for Animals's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 32% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 32% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Brooke Hospital for Animals. The Brooke Hospital for Animals's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 21 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 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 The Brooke Hospital for Animals receive? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals reported £25m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The Brooke Hospital for Animals's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-01-08). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Brooke Hospital for Animals based? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals's registered contact address is in London (WC2A 3LH). It tells the regulator it operates in Egypt, Ethiopia, Guatemala, India, Kenya, Nepal, with a focus on animals.
How much is The Brooke Hospital for Animals's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Brooke Hospital for Animals's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 21 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 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 The Brooke Hospital for Animals's money come from? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals reported £25m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £24m (99%), investments £187k (1%), other income £67k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £14m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Brooke Hospital for Animals? +
The register records The Brooke Hospital for Animals 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 Brooke Hospital for Animals's trustees paid? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals'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 Brooke Hospital for Animals registered as a charity? +
The Brooke Hospital for Animals was entered on the register on 23 March 2001. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04119581).
How does CharityCompare score The Brooke Hospital for Animals? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Brooke Hospital for Animals'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 Brooke Hospital for Animals'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.