Common questions about The Victoria Foundation's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Victoria Foundation a good charity? +
The Victoria Foundation scores 77 out of 100 (4 stars — Good) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 93% of its spending goes to charitable activities (2-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 Victoria Foundation a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Victoria Foundation as a registered charity (charity number 292841). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=292841&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 Victoria Foundation's charity number? +
The Victoria Foundation's charity number is 292841. 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 Victoria Foundation's charity rating? +
The Victoria Foundation 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 Victoria Foundation have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Victoria Foundation. 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 Victoria Foundation? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 93% of The Victoria Foundation's total spending went to charitable activities (2-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 Victoria Foundation'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 Victoria Foundation. The Victoria Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Victoria Foundation receive? +
The Victoria Foundation reported £53m total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: check comparability.
Are The Victoria Foundation's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2026-07-27). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Victoria Foundation based? +
The Victoria Foundation's registered contact address is in London (TW10 6DG). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on health.
How much is The Victoria Foundation's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Victoria Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £110,001–£120,000 (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 Victoria Foundation's money come from? +
The Victoria Foundation reported £53m total income for the year ending 30 September 2025. The largest sources were charitable activities £44m (83%), other income £9m (17%), investments £125k (0%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Victoria Foundation? +
The register records The Victoria Foundation 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 Victoria Foundation's trustees paid? +
The Victoria Foundation's annual return for the year ending 30 September 2025 reports that one or more trustees received payments or other benefits (payments for acting as a trustee). Charity law allows this only in limited circumstances; the trustees' annual report should explain it.
What was The Victoria Foundation previously called? +
The register lists these previous names for The Victoria Foundation: The New Victoria Hospital; The New Victoria Medical Foundation.
When was The Victoria Foundation registered as a charity? +
The Victoria Foundation was entered on the register on 13 November 1985. It is also a company registered at Companies House (company number 01946612).
How does CharityCompare score The Victoria Foundation? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Victoria Foundation'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 Victoria Foundation'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.