THE HEART RESEARCH INSTITUTE (UK)

Registered charity 1116918 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register · also registered in Scotland as SC042984 (OSCR)

The Charity raises donations to sponsor scientific research into the causes, prevention and cure of cardio-vascular and heart disease, the number one killer throughout the world. Charitable donations are used to further support and expand the level of innovative medical research that would not otherwise be funded by Government grants and other sources.

Objects

3.1 FOR THE BENEFIT OF THE PUBLIC, TO FURTHER KNOWLEDGE IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE (AND IN PARTICULAR HUMAN MEDICINE) BY SEEKING TO DISCOVER THE MAJOR ORIGINS OF DISEASE, ESPECIALLY CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE;3.2 TO PROMOTE MEDICAL RESEARCH TO IMPROVE METHODS OF PREVENTING, DIAGNOSING AND TREATING DISEASE IN HUMAN BEINGS; AND3.3 TO ADVANCE THE EDUCATION OF THE PUBLIC IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE (AND IN PARTICULAR CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICINE), INCLUDING (BUT NOT LIMITED TO) THE DISSEMINATION OF USEFUL INFORMATION CONCERNING THE WORK OF THE INSTITUTE.

Area of benefit: WORLDWIDE

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

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Financial health, per its FY2024 accounts

The accounts state that the charity generated a net incoming resource of £410,543 for the year ended 31 December 2024, resulting in total unrestricted and designated fund balances of £3,479,478. The trustees and auditors confirm the charity is a going concern with sufficient resources to meet liabilities as they fall due for at least 12 months. The charity maintains reserves above its stated policy target of 12 months' running costs.

Automated summary of the FY2024 accounts; the evidenced findings below carry the verbatim passages.

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by Azets Audit Services. Discloses 5 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.

• Complaints handling
• Complaints policy and procedures
• Conflicting interests
• Internal charity financial controls policy and procedures
• Internal risk management policy and procedures
• Investment
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 31/12/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~76.1 months of spending — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 5.2 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, cost of raising funds: 13.4% of total income — in the top quarter for charities its size (median 4.9%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• ANTONY WILLIAM POLLITTchair
• Adrian Phillips
• ELENA LOUISE PINTADO
• Stephen Bruce Moodey

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

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