Common questions about The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity a good charity? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity scores 85 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 73% 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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity as a registered charity (charity number 1095197). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1095197&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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's charity number? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's charity number is 1095197. 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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's charity rating? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity scores 85 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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. 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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 73% of The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity'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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity'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 26% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity. The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity receive? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity reported £34m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-22). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity based? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's registered contact address is in London (SW3 6JJ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on cancer.
How much is The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 14 employees paid more than £60,000, including 4 employees paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £140,001–£150,000 (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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's money come from? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity reported £34m total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £29m (86%), investments £4.4m (13%), trading and fundraising events £374k (1%). Legacies (gifts in wills) contributed £7.7m.
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity? +
The register records The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity 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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's trustees paid? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
What was The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity previously called? +
The register lists this previous name for The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity: Royal Marsden Cancer Campaign.
When was The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity registered as a charity? +
The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity was entered on the register on 31 December 2002. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04615761).
How does CharityCompare score The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity'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 Royal Marsden Cancer Charity'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.