THE SPINE FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1194851 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The charity aims to promote education in field of back pain to allow the health care professionals to gain competencies to manage these conditions.

Objects

3.1. FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT, THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND PRESERVATION OF HEALTH, IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY IN THE UNITED KINGDOM, INDIA, ASIA, THE MIDDLE EAST AND AFRICA BY:3.1.1. THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION BY PROMOTING THE TRAINING OF HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS IN EFFECTIVE TREATMENT OF BACK PAIN;3.1.2. THE ADVANCEMENT OF HEALTH OR THE SAVING OF LIVES BY PROMOTING TREATMENT AND UNDERSTANDING OF BACK PAIN INCLUDING USE OF NEUROMODULATION TO PROVIDE PAIN RELIEF.

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

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Epping Forest, East of England, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £75,611 for the year ended 31 December 2025, a significant reversal from the previous year's surplus. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted reserves decreased to £134,352, and the charity relies on charitable donations for its income. The trustees consider there to be no material uncertainties regarding the charity's ability to continue as a going concern.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). 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
• Engaging external speakers at charity events policy and procedures
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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, 4 were received after the due date: year ending 31/12/2024 (received 14/04/2026, 165 days after the 31/10/2025 due date); year ending 31/12/2023 (received 13/05/2025, 194 days after the 31/10/2024 due date); year ending 31/12/2022 (received 01/04/2025, 518 days after the 31/10/2023 due date); year ending 31/12/2021 (received 01/04/2025, 883 days after the 31/10/2022 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.

Trustees · trustee networks

• Dr Vivek Mehtachair
• Dr Kavita Poply
• Dr Richard Mark Langford
• Prashant Brijmohansingh Rawat
• Raghav Mehta

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

Operates in: India · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Charities like this

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

• THE PINE FOUNDATION income £72k
• STOKE MANDEVILLE SPINAL RESEARCH income £167k
• THE BRITISH PAIN SOCIETY income £224k
• THE OSTEOPATHIC FOUNDATION income £83k
• THE RICHARD PAIN TRUST LIMITED income £0
• SPINE income £29k

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