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)

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.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by BDO LLP.

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

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).

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

• 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
• 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

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Known funders

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY.

• BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY income £5.4m
• THE JGW PATTERSON FOUNDATION income £807k
• ORTHOPAEDIC RESEARCH UK income £1.4m
• NATIONAL AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS SOCIETY income £1.1m
• THE CHARTERHOUSE RHEUMATISM CHARITY income £125k
• THE ORTHOPAEDIC INSTITUTE LIMITED income £319k