THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HEART FAILURE

Registered charity 1075720 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as BSH

The aims of the BSH are to improve the care and outcome of patients with heart failure, and to promote research, education and scientific exchange relating to heart failure.The society's membership comprises cardiologists, GPs, nurses, surgeons, scientists, pharmacists, physiotherapists and other healthcare professionals involved with the diagnosis, management or science of heart failure.

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 group reported a net deficit of £245,462 for the year ended 31 May 2025, resulting in a decrease in total net assets to £568,353. Per the trustees' report, unrestricted free reserves stood at £479,330, which is above the stated policy target of £450,000. The trustees confirmed that the charity holds sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due and continue operations for at least twelve months.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by UHY Ross Brooke. Discloses 4 of 6 completeness components.

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — British Society for Heart Failure (matched by registered charity number).

Leadership, per the charity’s website

• Anna Clodfelter — CEO (source)
• Mary Coulson — Finance Director (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.

Funders the charity credits

Named as funders/supporters on the charity’s own website (the charity’s claim, distinct from accounts-verified grants).

• Abbott — “As a charity, we depend upon sponsorship contributions from our supporters and partners. These contributions are vital to helping us achieve…” (source page)

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/05/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~4.4 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.8 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (72% of income) — components as reported reconcile to the return’s total income; not from the accounts narrative.

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 2.2% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.2%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Lisa Andersonchair
• Brian Patrick Halliday
• Carys Barton
• Dr Carol Whelan
• Eebin Khoo
• Geraint Huw Jenkins
• Hannah Catherine De la Salle
• Patricia Martina Campbell
• Rebecca Louise Hyland

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

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

Income and spending

Common questions

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.

Charities like this

Semantically similar by activities and financial character, from our analysed corpus. Compare with THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMATOLOGY.

• THE BRITISH SOCIETY FOR HAEMATOLOGY income £3.3m
• BRITISH HEART RHYTHM SOCIETY (BHRS) income £251k
• BRITISH HEART FOUNDATION income £410.6m
• BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR IMAGING / BRITISH SOCIETY OF CARDIOVASCULAR COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHY ( BSCI / BSCCT) income £185k
• THE BRITISH GERIATRICS SOCIETY income £1.8m
• BOURNEMOUTH HEART CLUB income £405k

Side by side with its peers

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