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The Royal Surgical Aid Society

42 /100

Clarity score

Poor

Charity accounts, evidence & financial rating

42/100 Clarity Score · 2 stars · Charity Commission filings · How we score

Register checked 4 October 2026 · latest accounts 2025

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Is The Royal Surgical Aid Society a good charity?

The Royal Surgical Aid Society scores 42/100 (2 stars, Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, calculated from its UK regulator filings. Its latest accounts year is 2025 (£278k total income, cause-spend split not disclosed). This reflects financial transparency and stewardship on paper — not the real-world impact of its programmes. See the full breakdown.

Income

£278k

Accounts 2025-12-31

Spending

£1.3m

Accounts 2025-12-31

Charitable activities

Not disclosed

No separate spending figure

Accounts filing

On time

Charity Commission

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What does The Royal Surgical Aid Society do?

Dementia Carers Count is the working name for The Royal Surgical Aid Society. We provide space for family carers of people with dementia to inspire them to learn, connect and receive practical support to feel empowered in their caring role. We invest in research to understand family carers? experiences, needs and desired outcomes, and campaign to improve the support they receive.

Activities reported by the charity on the official register · extract . This is separate from the accounts data used for its rating.

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How much does The Royal Surgical Aid Society raise and spend?

Accounts period 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31 · Source: Charity Commission filings

The Royal Surgical Aid Society revenue and expenses for 2025
Category Amount % of spend
Total income £278k —
Total expenditure £1.3m —
Charitable activities Not disclosed —

What changed in The Royal Surgical Aid Society’s latest accounts?

Reported totals for 2025 compared with 2024. Changes can reflect the accounting period, restricted grants or restructuring as well as the charity’s work.

Income change
−29.4%
£394k → £278k
Spending change
−4.1%
£1.4m → £1.3m
Charitable activities share
Not disclosed
Both years need a disclosed spending split.

These are annual figures. The Clarity Score may use averages across several disclosed years. Source: official accounts.

Where does the money go?

Latest accounts (2025) · £1.3m spent. Not disclosed in this filing — the Charity Commission return omits the charitable-activities split.

From the annual return

What does The Royal Surgical Aid Society pay its staff, and where does its money come from?

Answers The Royal Surgical Aid Society gave in its annual return to the Charity Commission for the year ending 31 December 2025, plus its register entry. These are the charity's own disclosures, not part of the Clarity Score.

How much are The Royal Surgical Aid Society's highest-paid staff paid?

The Royal Surgical Aid Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (1 employee).

The Royal Surgical Aid Society employees paid over £60,000, by salary band
Salary bandEmployees
£80,001–£90,000 1
£70,001–£80,000 1
£60,001–£70,000 2

The register reports headcounts in salary bands, not names. The chief executive's pay is normally disclosed in the remuneration note of the trustees' annual report.

Can I claim Gift Aid, and are the trustees paid?

The register records The Royal Surgical Aid Society 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. Work out your Gift Aid

The Royal Surgical Aid Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

Registration details

Registered as a charity
Company number
00515174 (Companies House)
Also known as
Agecare - Royal Surgical Aid Society; Rsas Agecare; Dementia Carers Count
Where it says it operates
Throughout England

Source: Charity Commission register and annual return data, Open Government Licence v3.0. A blank answer in the return is shown as not reported, never as “no”.

How have The Royal Surgical Aid Society's finances changed over five years?

Income fell 55% from £618k in 2021 to £278k in 2025; spending was £1.3m in 2025.

£0 £500k £1.0m £1.5m £2.0m 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025 Income 2021: £618k Spending 2021: £1.3m Cause spend 2021: £1.3m Income 2022: £347k Spending 2022: £1.7m Income 2023: £433k Spending 2023: £1.9m Income 2024: £394k Spending 2024: £1.4m Income 2025: £278k Spending 2025: £1.3m
  • Income
  • Spending
  • Cause spend
The Royal Surgical Aid Society income and spending by accounts year
Year Income Spending Charitable activities
2025 £278k £1.3m Not disclosed
2024 £394k £1.4m Not disclosed
2023 £433k £1.9m Not disclosed
2022 £347k £1.7m Not disclosed
2021 £618k £1.3m £1.3m

Cause spend is plotted only when the filing discloses a split · Source: Charity Commission filings

Financial context

How do its finances compare with similar charities?

Compare The Royal Surgical Aid Society with 65 other health charities in our detailed dataset: the same regulator, £100k–£500k income band and accounts ending in 2025. Each period covers 50–54 weeks. These are reference points, not targets or a ranking of impact.

Swipe across the table to see the peer median and coverage.

Latest annual figures, accounts ending 2025-12-31. Peer medians exclude this charity; the median is the middle value.
MeasureThis charityPeer medianPeer coverage
Annual income £278k £347k 65 of 65
Annual spending £1.3m £448k 65 of 65
Charitable activities share Not available Too few disclosures 0 of 65

The annual spending share can differ from the multi-year average shown elsewhere. Missing disclosures are excluded, never counted as zero. We show a median only with at least ten peer disclosures. Different year-end months, restricted funding and delivery models can still limit comparisons.

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How does The Royal Surgical Aid Society compare?

The share of each group scoring at or below The Royal Surgical Aid Society, including tied scores. A group matched on cause, income band and accounts year appears when at least ten records qualify. Broader groups below may mix reporting periods and operating models. Groups include this charity; percentiles measure our financial rating, not impact.

Same cause, income band and accounts year (2025) 26thpercentile

Scores at or above 26% of 68 charities with the same primary cause, income band and latest accounts year · 42/100 vs 51 peer average.

Income band (£100k–£500k) 22ndpercentile

Scores at or above 22% of 1,002 charities in its income band · 42/100 vs 52 peer average.

Health charities 6thpercentile

Scores at or above 6% of 526 charities in this cause · 42/100 vs 72 peer average.

How does The Royal Surgical Aid Society compare, and where else can you look?

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Where The Royal Surgical Aid Society sits

The causes this charity is classified under, and other charities working nearby.

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Evidence and interpretation

What the evidence says about The Royal Surgical Aid Society

In 2025, reported income was £278,007 and expenditure was £1,310,797. Expenditure exceeded income by £1,032,790. This annual balance is not the charity’s available cash or unrestricted reserves.

More financial context

Income fell 29.4% compared with 2024. Read the accounts notes for restricted grants, legacies and one-off receipts before treating the movement as a trend.

A separate charitable-activities spending figure is not available for this year in our dataset. We cannot calculate an annual programme-spending share from these fields.

Calculated from our dated accounts dataset, refreshed 2026-09-06. This is not an audit or a manual review of every filing. Original register and accounts · How calculations work.

Find the right support

Who it supports and how to access its work

Reported beneficiaries: Children/young People; Elderly/old People; Other Charities Or Voluntary Bodies; The General Public/mankind.

How it works: Provides Human Resources; Provides Buildings/facilities/open Space; Provides Services; Provides Advocacy/advice/information; Sponsors Or Undertakes Research.

Use the official contact details to check eligibility, referrals, waiting lists and current service coverage. Broad register classifications and a contact address do not confirm that a particular service is available to you.

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Classifications supplied to the register; extract 2026-10-04. Register contact and activity details · Website listed for this charity

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Results and impact evidence

We have not added a source-checked programme outcome for this charity. That is a gap in this profile, not evidence that the charity has no impact. Its annual report may contain results that have not been assessed here.

Reported grants to institutions: £0 (2021-12-31). This is spending reported in the annual return, not a measure of beneficiary outcomes or an open grant opportunity. It may already be included in charitable expenditure. Check the source accounts.

What these results can tell you

Counts of services delivered describe activity. They do not by themselves establish lasting change, what would have happened without the programme, or cost-effectiveness. Results with different definitions, populations or years should not be ranked against each other.

How to judge charity impact evidence

Linked funds and trusts

These 1 linked records sit under parent registration 216613. They are not separate charity registrations in our directory. Source extract 2026-10-04.

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What is The Royal Surgical Aid Society's Beacon report?

Detailed accountability and finance metrics from UK regulator filings — structured for transparency in our four-beacon report.

Accountability & Transparency

Baseline trust from filing discipline, board oversight, and declared governance policies.

93/100

Accountability & Transparency metrics for The Royal Surgical Aid Society
Metric Score Value
Filing history (5 years)

No recorded lateness in available history = 15 pts · one late filing = 5 pts · two or more or unknown status = 0 pts. Missing data is not proof of late filing.

 100% 15/15 pts
Trustee oversight

Three or more trustees on the register = 15 pts, scaled down for fewer (governance red flag below three).

 100% 10 trustees · 15/15 pts
Declared policies

Safeguarding (4) · conflict of interest (3) · volunteer management (3) — from Charity Commission annual return.

 70% 7/10 pts

Financial Health

Stability and solvency — reserves, revenue trend, and debt from Charity Commission accounts.

0/100

Financial Health metrics for The Royal Surgical Aid Society
Metric Score Value
Reserves (months of expenditure)

3–24 months = full marks, tapering on both sides · 0 months or 4+ years = 0 pts. Reserves are not necessarily cash; needs vary by operating model.

 0% Not stated · 0/15 pts
Income stability / growth

+20% or more over the window = 10 pts · flat = 5 pts · −20% or worse = 0 pts, scaled between.

 0% 0/10 pts · 3-year average
Liabilities to assets

0% liabilities-to-assets = 5 pts, scaling down to 0 pts at 60%+ debt.

 0% Not stated · 0/5 pts

Financial Efficiency

How efficiently funds reach the cause — program spend and fundraising cost ratios.

0/100

Financial Efficiency metrics for The Royal Surgical Aid Society
Metric Score Value
Program expense ratio

90%+ on charitable activities = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 50% or below.

 0% Not stated · 0/10 pts
Fundraising efficiency

≤10p to raise £1 = full marks, scaling down to 0 pts at 40p or above (fundraising cost ÷ income).

 0% Not stated · 0/10 pts

Community Support

Grassroots backing from Charity Commission workforce data — volunteers vs paid staff.

50/100

Community Support metrics for The Royal Surgical Aid Society
Metric Score Value
Volunteer-to-staff ratio

Volunteers at 2x staff or more = full marks · no volunteers = 0 pts, scaled between.

 50% 11 volunteers · 5/10 pts

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What trust indicators does The Royal Surgical Aid Society have?

Pulled from the Charity Commission register — filing behaviour, board size, and workforce where reported.

  • Accounts filed on time

    up to date · last filing

  • Trustee board size (3–12)

    10 trustees on the Charity Commission register

Fundraising Regulator

Not listed as member

Separate from our financial scores. Registration records a commitment to the Code of Fundraising Practice; it does not certify every fundraising activity.

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Official register

Reg 216613

Full trustee list, accounts, and regulatory history on the Charity Commission.

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Trustees & officers

  • David James Goodridge since 2017
  • Catherine Anne A'Bear since 2019
  • Julie Anne Flower since 2019
  • Gaynor Hillier since 2021
  • Dean Cassar since 2022
  • Dr Vellingiri Raja Badrakalimuthu since 2022
  • Liz Jones since 2022
  • Drake Peabody since 2026
  • Ellen Miller since 2026
  • Emma Green since 2026

How reliable is The Royal Surgical Aid Society's data?

Source
Charity Commission (England & Wales)
Accounts year
2025
Filing date
Data refreshed

Medium confidence — some data missing or late

Scores reflect the accounts in our dated data extract. The live register may contain newer filings. Clarity Score measures how clearly the charity accounts for money in those filings — not programme impact.

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Financial source extract: 2026-09-06. Organisation identifier: 216613. Method version: 1.1. View method changes.

Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Sources: Charity Commission for England and Wales, Office of the Scottish Charity Regulator and Charity Commission for Northern Ireland. Open Government Licence v3.0 .

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How we score charities +

The Clarity Score is a 100-point rating from UK regulator filings (Charity Commission for England and Wales, OSCR and CCNI). Four pillars — Accountability & Transparency (40), Financial Health (30), Financial Efficiency (20), and Community Support (10) — each scored on a continuous scale, not pass/fail cutoffs. A statutory inquiry sets the score to 0 automatically.

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Accountability & Transparency

Scored from filings

40 points — filing history (15), trustee oversight (15, scaling up to a board of three or more), declared policies (10).

Financial Health

Scored from filings

30 points — reserves (15, full marks 3–24 months, tapering on both sides), income stability (10), liabilities to assets (5, scaling down as debt rises).

Financial Efficiency

Scored from filings

20 points — program expense ratio and fundraising cost, each on a graduated scale (not a single cutoff). Kept at 20% of the total: financial-ratio scoring alone is not a reliable effectiveness signal (see "why not just an overhead ratio?" below).

Community Support

Scored from filings

10 points — volunteer-to-staff ratio from Charity Commission workforce data, scaling continuously up to a 2:1 ratio.

Overall score

Sum of all pillar points. Display stars use the same bands as the labels: 90–100 → 5★ Exceptional; 75–89 → 4★ Good; 60–74 → 3★ Needs improvement; 1–59 → 2★ Poor; 0 → not rated.

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Frequently asked questions

Common questions about The Royal Surgical Aid Society's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.

Is The Royal Surgical Aid Society a good charity? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society scores 42 out of 100 (2 stars — Poor) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Its recent filings do not disclose a charitable-activities spend split 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 Surgical Aid Society a legitimate charity? +

The register data used for this profile lists The Royal Surgical Aid Society as a registered charity (charity number 216613). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=216613&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 Surgical Aid Society's charity number? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society's charity number is 216613. 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 Surgical Aid Society's charity rating? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society scores 42 out of 100 on CharityCompare (2 stars — Poor). 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 Surgical Aid Society have reviews and complaints? +

CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Royal Surgical Aid Society. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (none flagged on this profile). 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 Surgical Aid Society? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society does not disclose a charitable-activities spend split in its recent UK regulator filings, so there is no official figure for how much of a donation reaches the cause. CharityCompare reports this as "not disclosed" rather than assuming a number.

What are The Royal Surgical Aid Society's overheads? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society's recent UK regulator filings do not disclose a fundraising or governance cost split, so no official overhead percentage is available. The Royal Surgical Aid Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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 Surgical Aid Society receive? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society reported £278k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: declining.

Are The Royal Surgical Aid Society's accounts up to date? +

Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-06-12). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.

Where is The Royal Surgical Aid Society based? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society's registered contact address is in London (SE1 3GN). It tells the regulator it operates in England, with a focus on health.

How much is The Royal Surgical Aid Society's chief executive paid? +

The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Royal Surgical Aid Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports 4 employees paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £80,001–£90,000 (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.

Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Royal Surgical Aid Society? +

The register records The Royal Surgical Aid Society 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 Surgical Aid Society's trustees paid? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society's annual return for the year ending 31 December 2025 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.

When was The Royal Surgical Aid Society registered as a charity? +

The Royal Surgical Aid Society was entered on the register on 13 July 1964. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 00515174).

How does CharityCompare score The Royal Surgical Aid Society? +

We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Royal Surgical Aid 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 Royal Surgical Aid Society'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.