Common questions about The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service a good charity? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service scores 77 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 100% 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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service as a registered charity (charity number 1087210). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1087210&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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's charity number? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's charity number is 1087210. 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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's charity rating? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service scores 77 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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service. 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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 100% of The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service'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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service'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 2% of expenditure (2023–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service. The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service receive? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service reported £4.2m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: growing.
Are The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: late (last filing 2025-10-16). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service based? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's registered contact address is in Salisbury (SP11 9AQ). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, Cyprus, Scotland, Northern Ireland, with a focus on armed forces.
How much is The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000. The highest reported pay band is £90,001–£100,000 (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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's money come from? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service reported £4.8m total income for the year ending 31 March 2026. The largest sources were donations and legacies £2.6m (55%), charitable activities £2.1m (44%), investments £40k (1%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service? +
The register records The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service 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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's trustees paid? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2026 reports that no trustee received remuneration or other benefits from the charity.
When was The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service registered as a charity? +
The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service was entered on the register on 28 June 2001. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 04185635).
How does CharityCompare score The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service'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 St. John and Red Cross Defence Medical Welfare Service'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.