Registered charity · Derbyshire
Discs
- 4 trustees
- Income £0 (2025)
Official record Charity Commission · updated 27th September 2026 · Sources
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Who leads it
Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.
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About
- What it does
- The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
- Where
- Throughout England And Wales
- Registered
- 1993
Income and spending
- YearIncomeSpending
- 2025£0£0
- 2024£0£0
- 2023£0£0
Earlier years
- 2022£0£372
- 2021£0£372
Income trend, 2021 to 2025.
Charitable objects
1.THE RELIEF OF PERSONS SUFFERING FROM SPINAL CONDITIONS 2.THE PROVISION OF RECREATIONAL FACILITIES WITH THE OBJECT OF IMPROVING THE CONDITIONS OF LIFE OF SUCH PERSONS 3.TO PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT MEDICAL RESEARCH INTO SPINAL CONDITIONS AND THE EXTRACTION COLLATION AND DISSEMINATION FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC OF INFORMATION FROM DATA ARISING WHICH IS REASONABLY EXPECTED TO FACILITATE THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE DIAGNOSIS TREATMENT AND MANAGEMENT OF SUCH CONDITIONS WITHIN THE UNITED KINGDOM BUT IN PARTICULAR (WITHOUT LIMITATION) TO PROMOTE AND CARRY OUT RESEARCH AS AFORESAID AT OR IN ASSOCIATION WITH THE SPINAL DISORDERS UNIT AT THE CROMWELL HOSPITAL AND THE ROYAL POSTGRADUATE MEDICAL SCHOOL OF HAMMERSMITH HOSPITAL 4.TO MAKE GRANTS FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH AND THE EXTRACTION COLLATION AND DISSEMINATION OF INFORMATION FROM DATA ARISING FROM SUCH RESEARCH.
Board analysis
Board DNA
How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.
4 trustees on the board
- Professor Christine LYN Chorlton BSc PhD Chair since 2014
- John Stephen Partington since 2012
- John Kevin O'Dowd since 2016
- Stephen Barham Carter BSC FCA
Trustees past 6 years
- Professor Christine LYN Chorlton BSc PhD Chair since 2014
- John Stephen Partington since 2012
- John Kevin O'Dowd since 2016
First-time vs portfolio trustees
First-time (4)
- Professor Christine LYN Chorlton BSc PhD Chair since 2014
- John Stephen Partington since 2012
- John Kevin O'Dowd since 2016
- Stephen Barham Carter BSC FCA
Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.
Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.
Gaps to watch
- Several long-serving trustees could step down together
- Narrow spread of causes across the board
Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.
Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours
Sources
Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.
Record details
- Registered charity number
- 1024471
- Status
- Registered
- Governing document
- TRUST DEED MADE 26TH JULY 1993.
- Contact on the register
- 07857 267842 · C.LEMAITRE@SHEFFIELD.AC.UK
- Edition
- Register edition compiled 27th September 2026
- Labels
- Official record from the register · Calculated derived by Governance Register. Anything added by an organisation or person is labelled as provided by them.
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