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HEARTBEAT UK

Registered charity 1124786 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

Raises funds to provide defibrillators and have trained people available to use them at public events/ venues.

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

Latest income
£40k
Latest spending
£28k
Registered
2008
Accounts read
FY2025

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £14,387, though the trustees note this surplus is predominantly bank funds imminently ready to be spent on cardiac equipment. The charity reported a surplus of £11,681 for the year, with voluntary income remaining consistent with the previous year despite a significant drop in expenditure on cardiac equipment.

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

What the accounts disclose

Reserves policy: enough to cover daily running costs of the charity (held: £14k)
“The trustees have set a policy that all donations received should be spent on cardiac equipment or cardiac support and administration costs and normally has relatively low reserves other than enough to cover daily running costs of the charity.” — page 6
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.
Related-party transaction: Trustees reimbursed for expenses
“Some expenses are reimbursed to trustees: these include telephone calls on personal phones for charity business, postage and mileage done in their private car to collect volunteers and visit sites on charity business and subsistence.”
Per its FY2025 accounts as filed with the Charity Commission.

Accounts independently examined (not a full audit). Discloses 5 of 6 completeness components.

Trustees · trustee networks

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

Operates in: Throughout England And Wales

Income and spending

Financial year endIncomeSpending
31/07/2025£40k£28k
31/07/2024£40k£43k
31/07/2023£44k£46k
31/07/2022£32k£28k
31/07/2021£5k£7k

Common questions

Is HEARTBEAT UK financially healthy?

Per its FY2025 accounts: The accounts state that unrestricted reserves increased to £14,387, though the trustees note this surplus is predominantly bank funds imminently ready to be spent on cardiac equipment. The charity reported a surplus of £11,681 for the year, with voluntary income remaining consistent with the previous year despite a significant drop in expenditure on cardiac equipment. Its FY2025 accounts were independently examined.