Common questions about The National Army Museum's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The National Army Museum a good charity? +
The National Army Museum scores 71 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 86% of its spending goes to charitable activities (3-yr avg) 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 National Army Museum a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The National Army Museum as a registered charity (charity number 237902). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=237902&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 National Army Museum's charity number? +
The National Army Museum's charity number is 237902. 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 National Army Museum's charity rating? +
The National Army Museum scores 71 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 National Army Museum have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The National Army Museum. 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 National Army Museum? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 86% of The National Army Museum'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 National Army Museum's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 14% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 18% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The National Army Museum. The National Army Museum's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee 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 National Army Museum receive? +
The National Army Museum reported £9.6m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The National Army Museum's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-12-23). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The National Army Museum based? +
The National Army Museum's registered contact address is in London (SW3 4HT). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is The National Army Museum's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The National Army Museum's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 8 employees paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee 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 National Army Museum's money come from? +
The National Army Museum reported £9.6m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £8.4m (87%), trading and fundraising events £1.2m (12%), other income £40k (0%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £217k.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The National Army Museum? +
The register records The National Army Museum 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 National Army Museum's trustees paid? +
The National Army Museum'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 National Army Museum registered as a charity? +
The National Army Museum was entered on the register on 10 November 1964.
How does CharityCompare score The National Army Museum? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The National Army Museum'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 National Army Museum'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.