Welcome to Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust, please help us in our 'Joint Support'

As many as 7.5 million people suffer in the UK in this way.

Many suffer later in life but some are as young as three and as things stand, these children may never know a life free from pain.

Arthritis is so well known that it is almost forgotten and attracts little state funding compared with other devastating diseases.

Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust seeks to help by providing equipment to the County's Community and NHS hospitals where it is unavailable any other way.

This equipment comprises:

• Expensive 'state-of-the-art' surgical tools,
• Physiotherapeutic and orthopaedic nursing aids,
• Occupational & rehabilitation therapies including hydrotherapy
• Exercise equipment for children

Most of our funding comes from people who have benefitted from this and would wish others to do so as well

GAT also provides funding for research into arthritis that is based in and around Gloucestershire but the results of which will benefit the whole country.

We are very grateful to the many people who support us in so many ways and to those who provide major funding through donations and legacies.

GAT was among the first charities to adopt the new "Good Fundraising Code", launched in February 2009. You will see the bright yellow graphic icon (pictured right) appearing on our website and literature as it is produced.
This code has four principles:

• To treat donors and supporters of all kinds with honesty and respect.
• To be transparent when asked about cost ratios, costs of fundraising and related issues.
• To abide by all legal regulations governing fundraising and aim for best practice.
• To have a complaints procedure for supporters to access when they do have a complaint about any fundraising.

Please contact us for more information:

Gloucestershire Arthritis Trust,
2 College Lawn,
Cheltenham, GL53 7AG

Email: info@glosarthritistrust.org    Telephone: 01242 221005    or    08454 223187