PAIN RELIEF FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1156227 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as PRF, PAIN RESEARCH INSTITUTE

SEEKING TO FIND THE CAUSES OF HUMAN CHRONIC AND OTHER PAINSEEKING TO UNDERSTAND THE MECHANISMS OF HUMAN CHRONIC AND OTHER PAINCONDUCTING RESEARCH INTO HUMAN CHRONIC AND OTHER PAINPROVIDING GRANTS FOR RESEARCH INTO HUMAN CHRONIC AND OTHER PAINSEEKING TO FIND IMPROVED METHODS OF TREATING HUMAN CHRONIC PAINEDUCATING HEALTH PROFESSIONALS AT ALL LEVELS INTO THE TREATMENT OF HUMAN CHRONIC PAIN

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a net income of £113,734 for the year ended 5 April 2026, reversing a deficit in the previous year. The trustees maintain unrestricted reserves and investments of £2,789,503, which they consider adequate to meet operational needs and research commitments over the next three years.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BTMR Limited. Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — The Pain Relief Foundation (matched by registered charity number).

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 05/04/2023)

Reported reserves equal ~69.2 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 7.0 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.5% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 2.9%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (02/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (13/01/2015) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• DAVID CAINchair · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr CHRIS WELLS
• Dr MANOHAR SHARMA
• Dr TIMOTHY PAUL NASH
• Geraldine Thompson
• JUDITH MARY DALEY
• PETER FELL · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR MICHELLE BRIGGS
• Professor Francis McGlone
• Professor Paul Richard Eldridge · trustee of 3 other charities

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Known funders

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Funders of similar charities

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE NICHOLLS SPINAL INJURY FOUNDATION.

• THE NICHOLLS SPINAL INJURY FOUNDATION income £262k
• THE JGW PATTERSON FOUNDATION income £807k
• STOCKPORT NHS FOUNDATION TRUST GENERAL FUND income £930k
• EDUCATION FOR HEALTH income £1.5m
• PTEN RESEARCH FOUNDATION income £716k
• NATIONAL AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS SOCIETY income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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