THE CHARTERHOUSE RHEUMATISM CHARITY

Registered charity 212498 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The aim of the Charity is to fund research in the areas of disability and rehabilitation of rheumatic sufferers and related disabilities.

Objects

1. TO RELIEVE IN CASES OF NEED PERSONS SUFFERING FROM RHEUMATISM WHO ARE SICK, CONVALESCENT, DISABLED, HANDICAPPLED OR INFIRDM BY PROVIDING OR PAYING FOR ITEMS, SERVICES OR FACILITIES WHICH ARE CALCULATED TO ALLEVIATE THE SUFFERING OR ASSIST THE RECOVERY OF SUCH PERSONS IN SUCH CASES BUT ARE NOT READILY AVAILBLE TO THEME FROM OTHER SOURCES. 2. TO RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES OF RHEUMATISM AND THE TREATMENT THEREOF AND THE PUBLICATION OF THE USEFUL RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.

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.

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Latest income
£125k
Latest spending
£126k
Registered
1962
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the Charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,000,926, which the Trustee considers sufficient to fund day-to-day working capital and over 30 years of annual grants. The Charity reports a net increase in funds of £114,934 driven by investment gains, with no staff costs incurred as administrative services are provided by the Corporate Trustee.

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

What the accounts disclose

Related-party transaction: Grants totalling £100,000 were payable to the University of Leeds.
“During the year grants totalling £100,000 (2024: £100,000) were payable to the University of Leeds which supports the Charterhouse Professor of Rehabilitation Medicine who is head of Rehabilitation Medicine at the University of Leeds, the Corporate Trustee” — page 22
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited. Discloses 3 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.

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.

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2025

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2024

  • Trustee benefits, answered Yes to: any trustee benefit; payments to trustees for services to the charity
  • Grant-making is its main activity

Self-declared on the annual return for the financial year ending 31/07/2023

  • Grant-making is its main activity

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, 1 was received after the due date: year ending 31/07/2021 (received 01/07/2022, 31 days after the 31/05/2022 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

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£125k£126k
31/07/2024£126k£125k
31/07/2023£123k£124k
31/07/2022£123k£123k
31/07/2021£115k£120k

Common questions

Is THE CHARTERHOUSE RHEUMATISM CHARITY financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that the Charity holds unrestricted reserves of £4,000,926, which the Trustee considers sufficient to fund day-to-day working capital and over 30 years of annual grants. The Charity reports a net increase in funds of £114,934 driven by investment gains, with no staff costs incurred as administrative services are provided by the Corporate Trustee. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by Armstrong Watson Audit Limited.

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Charities like this

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

Side by side with its peers

CharityIncomeTop pay bandStaff >£60kReserves vs policyFundraising costGoing concern
THE CHARTERHOUSE RHEUMATISM CHARITY£125k—0unclear—no doubt
BRITISH SOCIETY FOR RHEUMATOLOGY FY2025£5.4m—0above0.0%no doubt
CRH CHARITABLE TRUST FY2026£395k—0unclear—no doubt
THE CHARTERHOUSE CHARITABLE TRUST FY2025£58k—0above—no doubt
THE KENNEDY TRUST FOR RHEUMATOLOGY RESEARCH FY2025£11.3m——above—no doubt
HAYWOOD RHEUMATISM RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOUNDATION FY2026£169k—0unclear—no doubt

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