Pain UK

Pain UK has four central objectives

1. To improve the efficiency and effectiveness of UK pain charities, thus helping them to improve quality of life for people in pain.
2. To secure general acceptance that pain is an issue in its own right, just as significant as the disease or injury that may be causing it.
3. To provide a signposting service for people in pain where help is available.
4. To highlight the need for support where it is needed.

Pain UK is an umbrella group that provides support to individual charities rather than individual people. If you are an individual in need of help, please contact one of our member charities direct. You can find them through our website in the "Members" section.

To achieve our objectives, we offer training and support to the member charities, many of which are run by ‘expert patients’ and may not have access to advice on issues like lobbying, fundraising, profile raising and reaching out to young people.

As the national umbrella body for UK pain charities we are able to provide a single point of contact for anyone wishing to understand what it is like to be a person in pain.