Royal Star & Garter

Analysis

Royal Star & Garter is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Buckinghamshire. It was registered in September 1962, 64 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, disability, accommodation/housing and armed forces/emergency service efficiency, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it provides services and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending December 2024, Royal Star & Garter reported income of £26.0m and spending of £26.8m, spending 103% of its income. Across the 5 years on record, from December 2020 to December 2024, income grew from £19.2m to £26.0m (+35%), an average of +7.8% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to December 2021, when income rose by 16%. Over the whole period it spent 111% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Royal Star & Garter sits at the 99th percentile: it is one of the largest 1% in its cause. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 100th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include London's Air Ambulance Limited (£26.0m), Al-Ayn Social Care Foundation (£26.0m) and Clic Sargent Cancer Care for Children (£25.9m).

In its latest detailed accounts, income came from charitable activities 61%, donations and legacies 19% and investments 9.0%. Gifts in wills alone brought in £4.1m. Charitable activities took 94% of spending and raising funds 5.9%. Reserves of £151.1m would cover about 67 months of spending at that rate. It employed 349 people.

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.