Arthritis UK

Registered charity 207711 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as ARC, ARTHRITIS RESEARCH CAMPAIGN, ARTHRITIS RESEARCH UK, THE ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM COUNCIL FOR RESEARCH IN GREAT BRITAIN AND THE COMMONWEALTH (FORMERLY THE EMPIRE RHEUMATISM COUNCIL), VERSUS ARTHRITIS · also registered in Scotland as SC041156 (OSCR)

The charity funds scientific and medical research into all types of arthritis and musculoskeletal conditions. It is working to take the pain away from sufferers with all forms of arthritis and helping people to remain active. This will be achieved through funding high-quality research, providing services, information and campaigning.The charity's vision is a future free of arthritis.

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

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a deficit of £10.9m for the year ended 31 March 2025, reducing its total reserves to £128.0m from £135.2m the previous year. Per the trustees' report, the charity is drawing on reserves to cover shortfalls while investing in research, with a strategic goal to achieve a balanced budget by 2027/28. The trustees confirmed there is no material uncertainty 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 audited by BDO LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

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

• Versus Arthritis launches UK’s first condition-specific coronavirus chatbot civilsociety.co.uk · 17/04/2020

Corporate structure

• Registered company of the charity Companies House 00490500

What the charity says about itself (2024/2025)

From its own voluntary annual review / impact report — the charity’s account of its work, distinct from the statutory accounts analysed above.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Arthritis UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Dr Benjamin Ellis — Senior Clinical Policy Advisor (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• The Knitting Network — “The Knitting Network generously agreed to match fund all donations. We’re extremely grateful to the Knitting Network for their continued sup…” (source page)

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

• COLBERT, Graham — director, appointed 30/11/2023on trustee list
• TAYLOR, Jane Marion Davina, Dr — director, appointed 14/12/2022on trustee list
• TOMPKINS, Catherine Janet — director, appointed 14/12/2022on trustee list
• ROSE, Lilian Elizabeth Milton — director, appointed 14/12/2022on trustee list
• WILLIAMS, Joanne — director, appointed 14/12/2022on trustee list
• ROBERTS, Caitriona Dieudonnee — director, appointed 14/12/2022on trustee list
• VANDENBERGHE, Paul Albert — director, appointed 14/12/2022on trustee list
• RODGERS, Jonathan — director, appointed 09/06/2021on trustee list
• ISAACS, John — director, appointed 09/06/2021on trustee list
• MCINNES, Iain Blair, Professor — director, appointed 09/06/2021on trustee list
• NOINVILLE, Vincent Jean-Marc — director, appointed 03/12/2019on trustee list
• HALL, Sue — secretary, appointed 31/03/2026

Official officers record.

Property (HM Land Registry)

11 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (7 freehold). All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~36.5 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.6 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 19.7% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 3.8%) (benchmarks).

Register events

• Received assets from another charity (01/08/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
• Received assets from another charity (16/03/2023) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

• CAITRIONA ROBERTS
• CATHERINE TOMPKINS · trustee of 1 other charity
• Dr JANE DAVINA TAYLOR
• Graham Colbert · trustee of 1 other charity
• Iain McInnes
• JOANNE WILLIAMS
• John Isaacs
• Jonathan Rodgers
• LILIAN ROSE
• Paul Vandenberghe
• Simon Charles Hobbs
• Vincent Jean-Marc Noinville

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

Operates in: Guernsey · Isle Of Man · Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

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

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with ARTHRITIS ACTION.

• ARTHRITIS ACTION income £651k
• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY income £5.4m
• Juvenile Arthritis Research income £103k
• THE JGW PATTERSON FOUNDATION income £807k
• ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• NATIONAL AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS SOCIETY income £1.1m

Side by side with its peers

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