About

BIRD’s vision to promote and support Bath as a centre of excellence in arthritis research and patient support.

Please click here to read our short overview leaflet and here to read our year at a glance leaflet.

Our mission is to:

improve outcomes and treatments for patients through promoting collaboration between clinicians and research scientists;
support research and educational activities in bone and joint diseases with a focus on Bath; and,
relieve sickness and to promote and advance medical knowledge with particular reference to rheumatic diseases and to undertake research in relation thereto.

We are:

committed to working with others in support of achieving its charitable objectives, with patient and public involvement and engagement embedded in the charitable activities;
ambitious for the future of arthritis research and education in Bath;
duty bound to act with integrity, be well governed and responsibly run; and,
accountable to its beneficiaries and other stakeholders for its actions.

With a primary focus on Bath, BIRD’s aims are to:

ensure its work and activities are informed by active patient, family and carer engagement;
be the driving force behind high quality arthritis research by awarding pump-prime funding to build research activity;
be the deliverer of choice of high quality continuing education and public information events relating to arthritis;
be the local charity raising awareness of the impact of arthritis; and,
to support the continuing provision and development of high quality rheumatology services based on research and education.