Trusts and Foundations

We are incredibly grateful to all of our Trust and Foundation supporters who help us by providing unrestricted and restricted funding to provide medical advice, practical support about living with axial SpA, emotional well-being support, and welfare and benefits advice to everyone with axial SpA who needs us.

For a full list of funders of our work at NASS, read our latest annual accounts and report here.

We would like to say a special thank you to the following Trusts and Foundations for their kind support by granting NASS unrestricted funds. This funding is essential. It gives us the flexibility to direct funding to where it’s needed most, and adapt our work when needed.

  • Douglas Heath Eves Charitable Trust
  • John Coates Charitable Trust
  • Lord Leverhulme’s Charitable Trust
  • Margaret Jeannie Hindley Trust
  • Marsh Christian Trust
  • Souter Charitable Trust
  • Sir Jules Thorn Charitable Trust
  • The Baker Charitable Trust
  • The Bernadette Charitable Trust
  • The Edward Gostling Foundation
  • The February Foundation
  • The Forrester Family Trust
  • The G C Gibson Charitable Trust
  • The Hamilton Wallace Trust
  • The Hospital Saturday Fund
  • The Mary Homfray Charitable Trust
  • The Simon Gibson Charitable Trust
  • The Thousandth Man-Richard Burns Charitable Trust
  • The Weinstock Fund

We’d also like to say a huge thank you to the following Trusts and Foundations for funding our online regional self-management programme and NASS Voices events:

  • The Norman Family Charitable Trust
  • The Ganzoni Charitable Trust
  • The David Gibbons Foundation
  • Northern Pharmacies Limited Trust Fund
  • The Edward Cadbury Charitable Trust
  • The James Tudor Foundation
  • The James Weir Foundation
  • The Alice Ellen Cooper Dean Charitable Foundation
  • The Eveson Charitable Trust
  • Ursula Keyes Trust
  • The Hugh Fraser Foundation
  • The Walter Guinness Charitable Trust
  • The William Webster Charitable Trust
  • The Michael Cornish Charitable Trust
  • The Purey Cust Trust CIO
  • The Shanly Foundation
  • The Garfield Weston Foundation
  • Stoke-on-Trent and North Staffordshire CCGs Long Term Condition Support Fund
  • Miss M E Swinton Paterson’s Charitable Trust
  • Lottery Awards for All
  • Innovate UK

What Trusts and Foundations can expect when partnering with us

We value and support every Trust and Foundation we work with.

To us, a partnership is more than financial support. It’s about having the same values, mission and principles. It’s about shared learning, respect and support.

If you’re a Trust or Foundation working with us, you can expect the following:

We’ll report back on the impact of your donation

We monitor and evaluate all our projects and programmes. This way you’ll know how your funding is making a difference.

We’ll invite you to exclusive events

At these events you’ll learn more about our work and hear from the people we support.

Get in touch

If you are part of a Trust or Foundation that would like work with NASS to support people with axial SpA, please email fundraising@nass.co.uk or call 020 8741 1515 and press option 2.

Contact the fundraising team

Other ways to fundraise

  • 220k

    Adults in the UK

    1 in 200 of the adult population in the UK have axial SpA (AS). That's twice as many as multiple sclerosis and Parkinson's disease.

  • 26

    Average age

    Axial SpA (AS) is a condition that affects young people. Symptoms start late teens to early twenties, with the average age of onset being 26.

  • 8.5

    Years to diagnosis

    The current average delay to diagnosis from when symptoms start is 8.5 years, by which irreversible damage to the spine may have occurred.

  • 59%

    Mental health

    59% of people with axial SpA (AS) report experiencing mental health problems compared to 25% of those with musculoskeletal conditions overall.