Common questions about The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's rating, finances, and Charity Commission status.
Is The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds a good charity? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds scores 61 out of 100 (3 stars — Needs improvement) on CharityCompare's Clarity Score, our independent read of its UK regulator filings. Around 75% 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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds a legitimate charity? +
The register data used for this profile lists The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds as a registered charity (charity number 1056452). Verify it on the official register: https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/charity-details/?regId=1056452&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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's charity number? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's charity number is 1056452. 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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's charity rating? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds scores 61 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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds have reviews and complaints? +
CharityCompare does not host public user reviews for The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds. Instead you get a filing-based Clarity Score, cause spend, reserves and red flags such as late accounts (one red flag on this profile: insufficient trustee oversight). 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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, 75% of The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds'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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's overheads? +
Across the recent disclosed accounts used for this score, fundraising costs were about 22% of total expenditure and fundraising plus separately reported governance figures amount to about 25% of expenditure (2024–2025, disclosed years); these categories can overlap, so this is not a distinct total of all administration costs at The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds. The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds receive? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds reported £805k total income in its 2025 accounts, based on UK regulator filings. Five-year trend: stable.
Are The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's accounts up to date? +
Filing status: up to date (last filing 2025-10-07). CharityCompare flags late or missing accounts separately from the financial score.
Where is The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds based? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's registered contact address is in London (N19 5NF). It tells the regulator it operates in England and Wales, with a focus on health.
How much is The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's chief executive paid? +
The Charity Commission register does not name individual salaries. The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's annual return for the year ending 31 March 2025 reports 1 employee paid more than £60,000, including 1 employee paid more than £100,000. The highest reported pay band is £100,001–£110,000 (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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's money come from? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds reported £805k total income for the year ending 31 March 2025. The largest sources were donations and legacies £523k (65%), charitable activities £226k (28%), investments £50k (6%).
Can I claim Gift Aid on a donation to The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds? +
The register records The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds 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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds's trustees paid? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds'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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds registered as a charity? +
The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds was entered on the register on 27 June 1996.
How does CharityCompare score The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds? +
We calculate a Clarity Score of 0–100 from four pillars in The Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds'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 Whittington Hospital NHS Trust Charitable Funds'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.