The Society for Back Pain Research

Analysis

The Society for Back Pain Research is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Preston. It was registered in January 1984, 42 years ago. Its declared purposes cover the advancement of health or saving of lives, which this site groups under health and saving lives. It says it makes grants to individuals, provides advocacy/advice/information and sponsors or undertakes research.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Society for Back Pain Research reported income of £16k and spending of £38k, spending 239% of what it took in. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £3,724 to £16k (+323%), an average of +43% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2022, when income rose by 298%. Over the whole period it spent 142% of the income it received.

Among 24,651 England and Wales charities whose main cause is health and saving lives and that reported income, The Society for Back Pain Research sits at the 34th percentile: it is larger than about 34% of them. Against every charity in England and Wales with reported income it ranks in the 40th percentile. Charities of a similar size with the same main cause include Association of Renal Technicians (£16k), Cataracts Are Curable - the Gambian Project (£16k) and Haroon Tariq Jahan Foundation (£16k).

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.