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Registered charity · London

British Heart Foundation

  • 11 trustees
  • Income £411m (2025)
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Official record Charity Commission · updated 13th September 2026 · Sources

Who leads it

Current trustees as listed by the Charity Commission, which does not publish previous trustees.

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About

What it does
The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives
Where
Scotland, Northern Ireland, Throughout England And Wales, Isle Of Man
Website
www.bhf.org.uk (opens in a new tab)
Linked company
British Heart Foundation
Registered
1963

Income and spending

  • YearIncomeSpending
  • 2025£411m£427m
  • 2024£399m£417m
  • 2023£381m£370m
Earlier years
  • 2022£352m£297m
  • 2021£225m£242m
Charitable objects

THE OBJECTS FOR WHICH THE FOUNDATION IS ESTABLISHED ARE: TO ATTACK AND DEFEAT DISEASES AND CONDITIONS OF THE HEART AND CIRCULATION AND OTHER DISEASES ILLNESS OR CONDITIONS, BY UNDERTAKING AND PROMOTING RESEARCH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT INTO THEIR CAUSE, DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION, PROMOTING THEIR DIAGNOSIS, TREATMENT AND PREVENTION, EDUCATING THE PUBLIC AND ALLEVIATING SUFFERING AND PROMOTING THE WELFARE OF PERSONS AFFLICTED AND THOSE WHO CARE FOR SUCH PERSONS.

Board analysis for researchers

Board DNA

How this board is put together, from Charity Commission trustee records and Companies House - deterministic, no AI.iBoard compositionCounted from the dated Charity Commission trustee register: the current board only, past trustees excluded.

11 trustees on the board

3.4y median 3y
average tenure
7y
longest tenure

Trustees past 6 years

8.2y
average years in governance

First-time vs portfolio trustees

First-time (10)

Portfolio (1)

9
company-linked trustees

Sector coverage iSector coverageThe charitable fields this board's trustees govern in elsewhere, by Charity Commission classification. Excludes this charity.

The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives 11Education/training 1

Commercial experience iCommercial experienceThe industries this board's members are company directors in, by Companies House SIC code. Excludes this organisation's own company.

Health and social care 10Professional services 10Other services 4

Gaps to watch

  • Narrow spread of causes across the board

Succession forecast iSuccession forecastThe number of board seats likely to open in the next twelve months - summed across the board from each dated trustee’s tenure - and the profile worth recruiting next. From the filed record, deterministic.

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Health of the organisation facts side by side - the conclusion is yours

Income v spending, filed accountsiIncome v spendingTotal gross income and expenditure from filed annual returns, Charity Commission, last 5 years.
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
incomespending£410.6m latest income · spending exceeded income in 2024 and 2025
ReservesiReserves12 x free reserves / annual expenditure, from the Part B annual return. The sector median is computed across all Part B filers in the same income band.

3.0 months of spending held in free reserves · median for charities its size: 3.5 months · was 1.2 in 2021

4545 from 4229 in 2021
EmployeesiEmployeesHeadcount as filed in Part B annual returns, per financial year. Shown exactly as filed; year-on-year figures may be filed on different bases, so a comparison is only shown when the filings are plausibly comparable.

Sources

Official record from the Charity Commission register for England and Wales. Governance Register calculates the connections.

Record details
Registered charity number
225971
Status
Registered
Governing document
MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES INCORPORATED 28/07/1961AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 24/09/1996AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 20/07/2006AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 29/01/2008NOW ARTICLES ADOPTED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION DATED 17/05/2010AS REGISTERED AT COMPANIES HOUSE ON 20/05/2010AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 23/01/2014AS AMENDED BY SPECIAL RESOLUTION(S) DATED 31 MAR 2016
Companies House
Company number 00699547 · Active
Contact on the register
0300 330 3322 · heretohelp@bhf.org.uk
Edition
Register edition compiled 13th September 2026
Labels
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