HEART RESEARCH UK

Registered charity 1044821 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as HEART RESEARCH, HRUK, NATIONAL HEART RESEARCH FUND · also registered in Scotland as SC053550 (OSCR)

Heart diseases claim a life every 5 minutes in the UK. We know research works and will save lives. We know that delivering community programmes across the UK will keep families together for longer. We focus on benefitting patients as soon as possible, to save more lives. We are dedicated to the prevention, treatment and cure of heart diseases. Until there are no more deaths from heart diseases.

Causes: The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Latest income

£3.4m

Latest spending

£3.9m

Registered

1995

Accounts read

FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves were £2.4m, which falls within the charity's stated policy target of a minimum of £2.0m and a maximum of £3.0m. The charity reported a net expenditure of £661,047 for the period, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £4.3m to £3.6m. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future.

Automated summary of the FY2025 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: minimum of £2.0m and a maximum of £3.0m (held: £2.4m)

“The reserves policy now states that Reserves should be a minimum of £2.0m and a maximum of £3.0m.” — page 20

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Related-party transaction: Management charge from subsidiary

“A management charge of £1,250 (2023: £1,000) was charged to HRUK Helping Hearts Limited for financial services.” — page 67

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Trading subsidiary: HRUK Helping Hearts Limited

“The Charity has one wholly owned trading subsidiary company, HRUK Helping Hearts Limited (No 1562684)” — page 22

Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts audited by BHP LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

Who’s Moving: Heart Research UK, Volunteering Matters, Carers Trust and more civilsociety.co.uk · 22/07/2019

Corporate structure

Trading subsidiary: HRUK HELPING HEARTS LIMITED Companies House 01562684
Registered company of the charity Companies House 03026813

HRUK HELPING HEARTS LIMITED — per its own Companies House accounts

Turnover: £177k
Profit before tax: £112k
Donated/gift-aided to the charity: £84k
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“The company pays all its taxable profits for the reporting period to its parent charity under the gift aid scheme. These gift aid payments are recognised as distributions to owners in equity within retained earnings.”

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Heart Research UK (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

Kate Bratt-Farrar — Chief Executive Officer (source)
Kate Langton — Director of Research (source)
Laure Rigal — Director of Projects, Data and Insights (source)
Ruth Manning — Director of Finance (source)
Tom Smith — Director of Marketing & Communications (source)
Holly Fleetwood — Director of Programmes (Health Improvement) (source)
Fran Forster — Joint Director of Income Generation (source)
Mary Campbell — Joint Director of Income Generation (source)

Listed on the charity’s own website when we last crawled it; roles may have changed. Pay-band disclosures above are anonymous statutory disclosures and are not attributed to any named individual.

Company officers (Companies House)

Current officers of the charity’s own company per the Companies House register, cross-checked against the Charity Commission trustee list by name. A director not on the trustee list is usually a timing or naming difference between the two registers — check both records before drawing conclusions.

SKIPP, Rebecca Kate, Dr — director, appointed 12/02/2026on trustee list
GOSTELOW, Andrew James — director, appointed 20/06/2024on trustee list
O'DONNELL, Mark — director, appointed 23/03/2023on trustee list
ROBINSON, Ian James — director, appointed 23/03/2023on trustee list
ANDREWS, James Scott — director, appointed 30/06/2022on trustee list
MUSONZA, Linda — director, appointed 20/10/2021on trustee list
BREEZE, James — director, appointed 26/11/2020on trustee list
BOUVET, Jean Pierre — director, appointed 08/12/2016on trustee list
FENWICK, Julie — director, appointed 29/09/2016on trustee list
MANNING, Ruth — secretary, appointed 06/11/2025

Official officers record.

Public profiles (found on the charity’s own website): facebook · instagram

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/03/2025)

Total income

£3.4m

Total spending

£3.9m

Cost of raising funds

£1.1m

Reserves (reported)

£3.6m

Employees

Reported reserves equal ~11.0 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 33.3% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2%) (benchmarks).

Register events

Received assets from another charity (11/01/2021) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.
Received assets from another charity (15/09/2020) — per the register’s event history; asset transfers typically record mergers or reorganisations.

Trustees · trustee networks

Julie Fenwickchair
Andrew Gostelow
Ian Robinson
James Breeze
James Scott Andrews
Jean Pierre Bouvet
Linda Musonza
Mark O'Donnell · trustee of 2 other charities
PETER BRAIDLEY
Rebecca Skipp

Trustee list from the Charity Commission register (current, not historical).

Operates in: Northern Ireland · Scotland · Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year end	Income	Spending
31/03/2025	£3.4m	£3.9m
31/12/2023	£4.0m	£3.3m
31/12/2022	£2.5m	£4.0m
31/12/2021	£2.7m	£3.6m
31/12/2020	£2.7m	£1.6m

Common questions

Is HEART RESEARCH UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that total unrestricted reserves were £2.4m, which falls within the charity's stated policy target of a minimum of £2.0m and a maximum of £3.0m. The charity reported a net expenditure of £661,047 for the period, resulting in a decrease in total funds from £4.3m to £3.6m. The trustees confirmed that the charity has adequate resources to continue in operational existence for the foreseeable future. Its FY2025 accounts were audited by BHP LLP.

Who funds HEART RESEARCH UK?

Funders whose own accounts filings name HEART RESEARCH UK as a grant recipient include THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED, THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST, THE ALAN EDWARD HIGGS CHARITY, MOORE KINGSTON SMITH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION.

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Funder	Year	Amount	Purpose (as stated by the funder)
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2024	£23k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2023	£15k
THE ORR MACKINTOSH FOUNDATION LIMITED	FY2025	£10k
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2022	£10k	Research
THE ALAN EDWARD HIGGS CHARITY	FY2025	£6k	2-stage therapeutic programme - 1:1 counselling then a siblings group for young carers
THE EDWARD CADBURY CHARITABLE TRUST	FY2023	£5k	Research
THE ALAN EDWARD HIGGS CHARITY	FY2024	£4k
MOORE KINGSTON SMITH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION	FY2025	£3k	Matched funding

Funders of similar charities

Funders whose accounts show grants to charities similar to this one (and no recorded grant to this charity) — a starting list for fundraisers.

Funder	Similar charities funded	Amount to them
PILKINGTON CHARITIES FUND	3	£25k
THE FRANK LITCHFIELD GENERAL CHARITABLE TRUST	3	£7k
THE ANNANDALE CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£50k
THE CATHERINE COOKSON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£27k
THE NORTON ROSE FULBRIGHT CHARITABLE FOUNDATION	2	£17k
G M MORRISON CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£13k
THE WILLIAM ALLEN YOUNG CHARITABLE TRUST	2	£13k
The Patricia Routledge Foundation	2	£13k

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with LONDON HEARTS.

LONDON HEARTS income £5.4m
CARDIOMYOPATHY UK income £1.1m
BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION income £410.6m
HEARTBEAT TRUST UK income £238k
LONDON HEART HOUSE - FOUNDATION FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION income £229k
KIDNEY RESEARCH UK income £14.5m

Side by side with its peers

Charity	Income	Top pay band	Staff >£60k	Reserves vs policy	Fundraising cost	Going concern
HEART RESEARCH UK	£3.4m	—	—	unclear	—	no doubt
LONDON HEARTS FY2025	£5.4m	—	0	above	—	no doubt
CARDIOMYOPATHY UK FY2024	£1.1m	—	—	within	—	no doubt
BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION FY2025	£410.6m	—	—	above	—	no doubt
HEARTBEAT TRUST UK FY2024	£238k	—	0	above	—	no doubt
LONDON HEART HOUSE - FOUNDATION FOR CARDIOVASCULAR RESEARCH AND EDUCATION FY2025	£229k	—	0	unclear	—	no doubt

Each row is that charity’s latest analysed filing; every value is quote-backed on its own page.