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Registered charity (CIO) · London

National Axial Spondyloarthritis Society

  • 12 trustees
  • Income £1.1m (2024)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 20th September 2026 · Sources

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives, Disability
Where
Throughout England And Wales, Northern Ireland, Scotland
Website
www.nass.co.uk (opens in a new tab)
Registered
2019

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2024£1.1m£1.1m
  • 2023£1.0m£1.2m
  • 2022£1.0m£1.5m
Earlier years
  • 2021£1.2m£1.1m
  • 2020£829k£1.2m

Income trend, 2020 to 2024.

Income source mix, 2022: Government grants under 1%. From the charity's annual return.

Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS OF THE CIO ARE THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION AND PROTECTION OF GOOD HEALTH AMONG PEOPLE IN THE UNITED KINGDOM LIVING WITH THE MEDICAL CONDITION AXIAL SPONDYLOARTHRITIS WHICH INCLUDES ANKYLOSING SPONDYLITIS (TOGETHER KNOWN AS THE ‘CONDITION’) IN PARTICULAR BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY BY: A) PROVIDING INFORMATION TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC ABOUT THE CONDITION AND PROVIDING SUPPORT AND ADVICE TO PEOPLE LIVING WITH THE CONDITION, THEIR FAMILIES, CARERS, SERVICE –PROVIDERS AND EMPLOYERS; B) ADVOCATING TO ENSURE THAT EVERY PERSON HAS TIMELY AND EFFECTIVE DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND CARE OF THE CONDITION; C) FUNDING AND DISSEMINATING RESEARCH AND ANALYSIS TO ADVANCE SCIENTIFIC UNDERSTANDING OF THE CONDITION AND ITS EFFECTIVE TREATMENT.

Grants received

14 grants · £220,667 total

360Giving data, published by funders. Coverage only includes funders who publish their grants to 360Giving, so these figures are a floor, not a complete picture.

Top funders

  • Garfield Weston Foundation · £90,000 (3 grants)
  • The National Lottery Community Fund · £80,331 (5 grants)
  • Peter Harrison Foundation · £20,000
  • Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy · £18,086
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport · £9,750

Most recent

  • The National Lottery Community Fund £19,3992026-02-24
  • Peter Harrison Foundation £20,0002025-04-15
  • Garfield Weston Foundation £60,0002025-02-05
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,3402024-10-10
  • The National Lottery Community Fund £18,3902024-05-13
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.

12 trustees on the board

4y median 4y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

7.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (2)

2
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

Disability 12The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 12General Charitable Purposes 2

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Arts and leisure 2Business services 2Education 2

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.

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Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
incomespending£1.1m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2023 and 2024
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.6 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.9 months · was 4.5 in 2020

12 from 14 in 2020
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
1183175
Status
Registered
Governing document
CIO - ASSOCIATION Registered 29 Apr 2019
Contact on the register
02087411515 · admin@nass.co.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 20th September 2026
Labels
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