Common questions about The International Menopause Society's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The International Menopause Society a good charity? +
The International Menopause Society scores 64 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% of its spending goes to charitable activities (latest year) and its accounts are late. 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 International Menopause Society a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The International Menopause Society as a registered charity (charity number 1156435). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1156435&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 International Menopause Society's charity number? +
The International Menopause Society's charity number is 1156435. 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 International Menopause Society's charity rating? +
The International Menopause Society scores 64 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 International Menopause Society have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The International Menopause Society. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: late accounts filing). 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 International Menopause Society? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The International Menopause Society's total spending went to charitable activities. 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 International Menopause Society's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 0% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 25% of expenditure (2022–2024, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The International Menopause Society. The International Menopause Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 International Menopause Society receive? +
The International Menopause Society reported £669k total income in its 2024 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The International Menopause Society's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-31). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The International Menopause Society based? +
The International Menopause Society's registered contact address is in Torquay (TQ9 5SX). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Albania, Argentina, Australia, Austria, The Bahamas, with a focus on health.
How much is The International Menopause Society's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The International Menopause Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 International Menopause Society's money come from? +
The International Menopause Society reported £669k total income for the year ending 31 December 2024. The largest sources were charitable activities £381k (57%), donations and legacies £289k (43%), investments £106 (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The International Menopause Society? +
The register does not record The International Menopause Society as registered with HMRC for Gift Aid. Ask the charity before assuming a donation can be Gift Aided.
Are The International Menopause Society's trustees paid? +
The International Menopause Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2024 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for providing services). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
When was The International Menopause Society registered as a charity? +
The International Menopause Society was entered on the register on 28 March 2014.
How does CharityCompare score The International Menopause Society? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The International Menopause Society'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 International Menopause Society'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.