Royal Orthopaedic Charity

Analysis

Royal Orthopaedic Charity is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Birmingham. It was registered in November 1999, 27 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training and the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, Royal Orthopaedic Charity reported income of £157k and spending of £570k, spending 363% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income fell from £673k to £157k (-77%), an average of -30% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income dropped by 77%. Over the whole period it spent 112% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, Royal Orthopaedic Charity sits at the 69th percentile: it is larger than about 69% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 78th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Gambia School Support (£157k), Dyspraxia Foundation (£157k) and The League of Friends of the Totnes and District Hospitals (£157k).

Data notes from the register: Spending has exceeded income in each of the last three reported years, so the charity has been drawing on reserves or other funds.