NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG FOUNDATION

Registered charity 1048073 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as NATIONAL HEART AND LUNG INSTITUTE FOUNDATION

The Charity aims to reduce pain, suffering and premature death caused by heart, lung and cardiovascular disease and disorders. The Charity's beneficiary is National Heart and Lung Institute, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College London, delivering world leading improvements in clinical care, education and research activities. Special areas of interest include COPD and heart failure.

Objects

The objects of the Charity are for the protection and preservation of health and the relief of sickness of persons suffering from diseases and disorders of the heart and lungs and the advancement of education (including by promoting or assisting in the promotion of research and investigation) in the causes and treatment of such diseases and disorders, by the provision of grants, facilities, equipment and premises and such other assistance as the Trustees shall determine.

Area of benefit: NOT DEFINED - IN PRACTICE LONDON

The charity’s charitable objects and area of benefit, quoted from its governing document as held on the Charity Commission register.

Causes: Education/training · The Advancement Of Health Or Saving Of Lives · website · Get email alerts

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a surplus of £1,309,477 for the year ended 31 July 2025, driven by net investment gains of £748,354 against total income of £700,601. The charity holds unrestricted reserves of £6,042,224 and maintains a strong investment portfolio valued at £19,747,444. The trustees confirm that resources are adequate to continue in operational existence with no material uncertainties.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Knox Cropper LLP. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Policies the charity declares

In its annual return the charity told the Commission that it has the policies listed below. This is self-declared: it is not verified by the Commission or by this site, and it is not evidence of how a policy works in practice.

• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investing charity funds policy and procedures
• Investment
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — NATIONAL HEART & LUNG FOUNDATION (matched by registered charity number).

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/07/2025)

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 12.3% of total income — above the median for charities its size (4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Richard Harry Reidchair · trustee of 1 other charity
• Alexander Ludovic Lindsay · trustee of 1 other charity
• Baroness Sally Morgan · trustee of 2 other charities
• Dr MICHAEL HARDING · trustee of 1 other charity
• Jonathan Piers Worsley Coleman
• Magdalene Sarah Brereton · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR KIM MICHAEL REGINALD FOX · trustee of 1 other charity
• PROFESSOR SIR MALCOLM GREEN · trustee of 1 other charity
• Professor Charles James Knight · trustee of 1 other charity

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

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

Income and spending

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Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with Asthma and Lung UK.

• Asthma and Lung UK income £16.1m
• THE LIVERPOOL HEART AND CHEST HOSPITAL CHARITY income £635k
• ROYAL BROMPTON AND HAREFIELD HOSPITALS CHARITY income £10.3m
• EUROPEAN LUNG FOUNDATION income £498k
• LONDON HEARTS income £5.4m
• HEART RESEARCH UK income £3.4m

Side by side with its peers

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