UPBEAT

Registered charity 1087415 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also known as UPBEAT-HEART SUPPORT IN WEST SUFFOLK

Upbeat is an independent charity set up by ex-cardiac patients. We provide support for people who have had heart attacks, or other heart related problems, and their carers. A range of specialist exercise sessions are held weekly under the supervision of qualified cardiac instructors and a cardiac nurse. Social and educational events are also provided.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AMONG PEOPLE WHO HAVE OR HAVE HAD CORONARY HEART DISEASE AND RELATED ILLNESSES, WITHIN THE AREA GENERALLY KNOWN AS WEST SUFFOLK.

Area of benefit: WEST SUFFOLK

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

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

Financial health, per its FY2026 accounts

The accounts state that the charity is self-funding and relies on its own fund-raising activities, private donations, and occasional grants. The trustees report that activities have stabilized, though membership is aging and there is a shortage of volunteers. The charity maintains a policy to hold a reserve of six months' expenditure.

Automated summary of the FY2026 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

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.

• Bullying and harassment policy and procedures
• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Financial reserves policy and procedures
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Safeguarding vulnerable beneficiaries
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — Upbeat Heart Support (matched by registered charity number).

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

Trustees · trustee networks

• David Leonard Axtonchair
• Darren Welham
• Felicity Stemp
• HILARY ANN NEEVES
• ILVA ANNE MAXEY
• Michelle Dorothy Welham
• NICHOLAS ERNEST BAYLIE
• Richard Morris
• Rosemary Rayson
• VALERIE CHRISTINE AXTON
• William George Kettyle

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

Operates in: Cambridgeshire · Essex · Norfolk · Suffolk

Income and spending

Common questions

Government & lottery funding

Grants to this charity published as open data by government and lottery funders (360Giving).