BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC FOOT & ANKLE SOCIETY

Registered charity 326114 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BOFAS, THE BRITISH ORTHOPAEDIC FOOT SURGERY SOCIETY LIMITED

Supporting research, making grants

Objects

The Charity's objects are restricted specifically to promote the development of foot and ankle surgery and to advance education, study and research in foot and ankle surgery for the benefit of the public.

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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Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total charity funds decreased modestly from £262,774 to £257,308 due to a shortened 10-month reporting period and the costs of running two congress meetings. The trustees confirm that the charity is prepared on a going concern basis with no material uncertainties regarding its ability to continue operations.

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.

• 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
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/08/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.8 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Other (100% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 0.0% of total income — below the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Anna Chapman
• Callum Ian Mcmillan Clark
• David Townshend
• Hiro Kazu Tanaka
• Jitendra Mangwani
• Joel Humphrey
• Karan Malhotra
• Robert Clayton
• Sarah Elizabeth Johnson-Lynn
• Stephen Hepple
• Stephen Paul Bendall

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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