The Children's Orthopaedic and Trauma Fund

Analysis

The Children's Orthopaedic and Trauma Fund is a registered charity in England and Wales, based in Merseyside. It was registered in July 1990, 36 years ago. Its declared purposes cover education/training, the advancement of health or saving of lives and disability, which this site groups under health and saving lives. Legally it is a charitable trust. It says it makes grants to individuals, makes grants to organisations and provides other finance.

In the financial year ending March 2025, The Children's Orthopaedic and Trauma Fund reported income of £16k and spending of £11k, leaving 34% of income unspent that year. Across the 5 years on record, from March 2021 to March 2025, income grew from £5,527 to £16k (+191%), an average of +31% a year. The sharpest change came in the year to March 2023, when income rose by 129%. Over the whole period it spent 90% 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 Children's Orthopaedic and Trauma Fund 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 The Pinchbeck Charitable Trust (£16k), South West Regional Anaesthesia Group (£16k) and The Bradford and Airedale Eye Sight Trust (£16k).