Our partners

Circle Health Group

We are delighted that Circle Health Group are our Surgery Support Partner, with a partnership running throughout 2026.

Circle Health Group are an award-winning healthcare provider operating the UK’s largest network of independent hospitals. Supporting over 2 million patients each year, Circle Health Group provides hospital services to patients who fund their own treatment, those who are supported by private medical insurance and NHS-funded patients as the group works in partnership with the NHS. Specialising in orthopaedic surgery, with over 750 orthopaedic consultants practicing at its facilities, Circle Health Group is well placed to support Arthritis UK.

Peter James, Chief Medical Officer at Circle Health Group said: 

"Circle Health Group prides itself on delivering an outstanding quality of care to patients with arthritis. At each of our 54 hospitals across the UK, we guarantee patients fast access to appointments, led by expert orthopaedic consultants, providing the diagnosis they need to make informed decisions about their health. Where necessary we support with specialist treatment and surgical intervention providing patients with excellent outcomes."

Circle Health Group’s collaboration funding will help to run our Arthritis Connect online community, providing peer-to-peer support for people living with arthritis, as well as improving access to valuable information and advice to help people manage their condition. 

To learn more about Circle Health Group, visit www.circlehealthgroup.co.uk

Novartis

As a long-term corporate partner, Novartis passionately work with Arthritis UK on collaborative projects to make an impact for people living with arthritis. Most recently they have been supporting us to raise awareness of two types of inflammatory arthritis.  With their funding, we were able to produce films to raise awareness and understanding of these conditions, ensuring that people from our arthritis community were involved and placed at the heart of these materials*. ​

*while the video production costs were funded by Novartis, they had no input into the content or production, ensuring that our work was entirely independent and led by our charitable priorities, voicing the needs of people with arthritis.

AKW​

We partnered with AKW to run a focus group to help them gain insights into what matters most to people with arthritis when it comes to adaptations in the home. Specifically, we looked at AKW’s kitchen units and bathrooms.  ​
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Arthritis UK support this effort by bringing together twelve people from our Involvement Network who live with arthritis and feel significantly impacted by their condition.  The participants provided valuable insights into their needs in the home and shared their honest opinions while reviewing the various product designs. This led to the writing up of a report that offers AKW’s designers invaluable guidance on how to adapt their designs going forward.​
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Through collaborating with companies in this way, we can champion the needs of people with arthritis when it comes to improving the design of products or services, helping them to live a better quality of life.    ​

To find out more about the professional services we offer, visit Partner with us

The Knitting Network

The Knitting Network has once again selected Versus Arthritis to be their charity of the month, this year in August. Throughout August 2025, customers can round up their order to the nearest pound and donate the difference to Versus Arthritis. The Knitting Network generously agreed to match fund all donations. We’re extremely grateful to the Knitting Network for their continued support, since 2021 they’ve raised over £6,000.

Contact us

To find out more about how you can create a corporate partnership with us, please get in touch - corporatepartners@arthritis-uk.org.