BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC ASSOCIATION

Registered charity 1066994 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · Wikidata: Q15994954 · Wikipedia · also known as BOA, JOINT ACTION

Annual Congress & educational courses for members, curriculum development for all T&O trainees, provision of website for members & public. Research grants, professional practice publications. Regular communications with Government, it's agencies, allied bodies, patient groups, related international bodies etc.

Objects

THE ADVANCEMENT FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT OF THE SCIENCE, ART AND PRACTICE OF ORTHOPAEDIC SURGERY WITH THE AIM OF BRINGING RELIEF TO PATIENTS OF ALL AGES SUFFERING FROM THE EFFECTS OF INJURY OR DISORDERS OF THE MUSCULOSKELETAL SYSTEM.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: General Charitable Purposes · Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Disability · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Westminster, London, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a surplus of £224.1k for the year, supported by a total income of £3.35 million and unrestricted reserves of £3.8 million. The trustees confirm that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future with no material uncertainties regarding its financial viability.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Crowe U.K. LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Annual return filing dates (Charity Commission record)

Of its last 5 annual returns with a recorded received date, 2 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2023 (received 14/11/2024, 14 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 05/01/2024, 66 days after the 31/10/2023 due date).

Due and received dates as recorded in the Commission’s annual-return data; the data does not say whether an extension was agreed. Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Kenya’s Catholic Bishops Pledge Joint Action, Stronger Partnerships in Implementing 10-Year Strategic Plan aciafrica.org · 23/08/2026
• Built environment bodies deepen joint action on equity, diversity and inclusion with 2025-30 plan riba.org · 04/02/2026

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Joint Action, the orthopaedic research appeal of The British Orthopaedic Association (matched by registered charity number).

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~13.4 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (95% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 3.9% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Ajay Malviya · trustee of 1 other charity
• Andrew Manktelow
• Deepa Bose · trustee of 1 other charity
• Fergal Monsell
• Hiro Tanaka
• Ian McNab
• Mark Andrew Michael Stephen Leigh
• Paul Banaszkiewicz
• Paul Francis Buckley
• Professor Amar Rangan · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Dominic Meek
• Professor Leela Biant · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Peter Giannoudis
• Professor benjamin ollivere
• Rhidian Morgan-Jones
• Sebastian Dawson-Bowling
• Simon Hodkinson
• andrea sott
• vikas khanduja

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

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Side by side with its peers

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.