The Osteopathic Centre for Children is a charity that was set up by Patricia Ferrall and Stuart Korth in January 1991, with a Saturday morning clinic at the Royal Homeopathic Hospital, Queens Square, London WC1, around the corner from the Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children, where the OCC rented a room. The original clinic was staffed by volunteer osteopaths.

The charity has four main aims:

1. To provide treatment for all babies and children, regardless of the family's ability to pay
2. To train post-graduate osteopaths in paediatrics
3. To raise public awareness of benefits of paediatric osteopathy for children
4. To research into effectiveness of paediatric osteopathy

Within nine months, the clinic at the Royal Homeopathic Hospital was too small as demand had grown, so the clinic moved to rented rooms in Cavendish Square, London W1, with additional volunteer osteopaths. Initially the clinic ran for two days a week, but within a year, had increased to five days a week because so many children were being booked in for treatment.

Eventually the OCC moved out of its rented accommodation in Cavendish Square when the 109 Harley Street premises were bought with a donation from the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund. The new clinic opened there in October 1998.

Four years later, the Harley Street building was sold, and with the proceeds it was possible to open new premises both in central London (Clerkenwell) and Manchester (in the urban regeneration area of Ancoats), in October 2003.

The charity was set up to make paediatric osteopathy available to all children, regardless of their family's financial circumstances as private practice makes it too expensive for many families, especially those needing long-term treatment.

The OCC receives no statuary funding, and all funds are raised through charitable donations, including those made by parents who bring their children to the clinics. At present, the charity is providing around 30,000 treatments a year in its clinics in London and Manchester, while also providing a paediatric osteopathy service to the neonatal intensive care unit at Barnet General Hospital, in London.