# NATIONAL BACK PAIN ASSOCIATION

## Details

- **Country:** England & Wales
- **Charity number:** 256751
- **Other names:** BACKCARE-THE CHARITY FOR HEALTHIER BACKS
- **Status:** Registered
- **Legal form:** Charitable company
- **Registered:** Sept. 27, 1968
- **Register:** https://register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk/en/charity-search/?p_p_id=uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet&p_p_lifecycle=0&p_p_state=maximized&p_p_mode=view&_uk_gov_ccew_onereg_charitydetails_web_portlet_CharityDetailsPortlet_regId=256751


## Contact

- **Address:** BackCare, 29 Bridge Street, HITCHIN, Hertfordshire
- **Postcode:** SG5 2DF
- **Phone:** 02089775474
- **Email:** info@backcare.org.uk
- **Website:** www.backcare.org.uk



## Activities

**Objects:** TO CARRY OUT AND PROMOTE RESEARCH INTO THE CAUSES, CURE AND PREVENTION OF ILLNESS, COMPLAINTS AND DISORDERS IN OR ASSOCIATED WITH THE BACK OF THE BODY AND OTHER ALLIED CONDITIONS AND TO PUBLISH AND MAKE AVAILABLE THE RESULTS OF SUCH RESEARCH.  THE RELIEF OF PERSONS WHO SUFFER SUCH CONDITIONS AND THE ADVANCEMENT OF EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC CONCERNING SUCH CONDITIONS.

**Activities:** BackCare (registered as the National Back Pain Association) is an independent national charity that helps people manage and prevent back pain by providing information, promoting self help, encouraging debate and funding research into better back care.

**Area of benefit:** NOT DEFINED




## Classification

- **How:** Makes Grants To Organisations, Provides Services, Provides Advocacy/advice/information, Sponsors Or Undertakes Research
- **What:** Education/training, The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
- **Who:** Children/young People, Elderly/old People, People With Disabilities, The General Public/mankind



## Areas of operation

- Northern Ireland
- Scotland
- Throughout England And Wales



## Finances

| Period end | Income | Expenditure | Assets | Employees |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dec. 31, 2024 | £254596 | £173232 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2023 | £874135 | £196855 | £857184 | 1 |
| Dec. 31, 2022 | £176000 | £177000 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2021 | £140658 | £191353 | — | — |
| Dec. 31, 2020 | £177818 | £147821 | — | — |



## Trustees

- Bob Chatterjee — appointed March 25, 2021
- EAMONN SWANTON — appointed Dec. 1, 2013
- Frances Williams Professor — appointed March 24, 2022
- Jeremy Charles Thomas Fairbank — appointed March 9, 2026