THE JOHN CHARNLEY TRUST

Registered charity 326395 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The principal activities of the Charity are those of funding research in the field of joint replacement, research fellowships, and lectures, conferences and seminars to further the technique of Low Friction Arthoplasty.

Objects

THE PROMOTION OF RESEARCH, EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR, OR INTO THE RELIEF OF PAIN, SUFFERING AND DISABILITY ARISING OUT OF OR ASSOCIATED WITH JOINTS OF THE HUMAN SKELETON AND IN PARTICULAR IN THE FIELD OF LOW FRICTION ARTHROPLASTY OF THE HIP AND RELATED AREAS OF SURGERY.

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.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: South Ribble, North West, England (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity holds unrestricted reserves of £1,590,825, which exceeds its stated policy target of maintaining investments to generate an annual income of £27,000. The charity reports a healthy cash balance and confirms there are no material uncertainties regarding its 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 A I Cherry Limited. Discloses 5 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.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

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Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

Trustees · trustee networks

• MARTYN LONSDALE PORTERchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• ALISTAIR CHARLES ROSS
• Debbie Anne Shaw
• Dr Henry Wynn Jones MBChB FRCS · trustee of 1 other charity
• JOHN PATTISON HODGKINSON
• Professor Adam Charles Watts MBBS BSc
• Richard Parkinson FRCSEdOrth
• Tristram Charnley · trustee of 1 other charity

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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Side by side with its peers

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