LONDON HEARTS

Registered charity 1180901 · accounts filings on the Charity Commission register

The relief of sickness and preservation of health for the public benefit among people residing in the UK and the London area in particular, but not exclusively, by providing a network of defibrillators throughout the area, provision of CPR training and enhancing public awareness around Cardiac health and associated conditions.

Objects

THE RELIEF OF SICKNESS AND THE PRESERVATION OF HEALTH FOR THE PUBLIC BENEFIT AMONGST PEOPLE RESIDING IN ENGLAND AND THE LONDON AREA IN PARTICULAR, BUT NOT EXCLUSIVELY, BY THE PROVISION OF DEFIBRILLATORS THROUGHOUT THE AREA, PROVISION OF CPR TRAINING AND HELPING TO FUND CARDIOVASCULAR MEDICAL RESEARCH THROUGH FUND RAISING EFFORTS

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 · Grant history (this charity is a funder) · website · Get email alerts

Registered contact address: Cardiff, Wales (from the postcode on the register)

Financial health, per its FY2025 accounts

The accounts state that the charity reported a small net expenditure of £29,333 for the year, attributed to the conclusion of a Department of Health and Social Care funded initiative. Despite this deficit, the trustees confirm that unrestricted reserves remain strong at £1,023,457, which is above their stated policy target of three months' operating costs. The auditors confirmed that the use of the going concern basis of accounting is appropriate with no material uncertainties identified.

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

What the accounts disclose

Accounts audited by DHB Accountants Limited. 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.

• 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
• Paying staff
• Risk management
• Safeguarding policy and procedures
• Serious incident reporting policy and procedures
• Social media policy and procedures
• Trustee conflicts of interest policy and procedures
• Trustee expenses policy and procedures
• Volunteer management

From the charity’s annual return (Part A, self-declared)

Answers and figures the charity gave in Part A of its annual return to the Charity Commission. They are self-declared: not verified by the Commission or by this site. Only positive answers and figures are listed; items not listed are simply not shown.

Source: this charity’s annual returns on the Charity Commission register.

In the news

Recent coverage mentioning this charity by name (automated match; headlines belong to their publishers).

• Sphere scoops BookToker Tierney Page’s London Hearts series in a global Hachette deal thebookseller.com · 11/03/2025
• London Hearts and Mindray BeneHeart C1A AED selected for new £1 Million AED Scheme mindray.com · 26/01/2024
• London Hearts leads the way with defibrillator initiative for UK communities charitytoday.co.uk · 14/12/2023
• LFP Archives: How fish and chips restaurants stole London hearts lfpress.com · 26/02/2022

Public fundraising profile: JustGiving — London Hearts Charity (matched by registered charity number).

Funders the charity credits

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

• Vital Energi — “Vital Energi Funds Lifesaving Defibrillators for Live Borders Mobile Library Vans” (source page)

Property (HM Land Registry)

3 registered titles in England and Wales held by the charity’s company or corporate body (2 freehold); recorded price paid £914k. All charity-held property. Contains HM Land Registry data © Crown copyright, OGL v3.0.

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

Structured financials (annual return, FY ending 30/04/2025)

Reported reserves equal ~2.3 months of spending — below the median for charities its size (median 4.7 months; benchmarks).

Per its annual return, largest income source: Charitable activities (64% 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: 1.3% of total income — below the median for charities its size (5.3%) (benchmarks).

Trustees · trustee networks

• Peter Richard Neilchair
• JAMES PAUL HUCKETT
• Leah DeMaid
• TIMOTHY HARRISON

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

Operates in: Throughout England

Income and spending

Common questions

Known funders

Grants to this charity found in funders’ own accounts filings.

Grants marked “Unverified read” were flagged by automated checks as possibly misread from the funder’s filed accounts. They are listed, but left out of the totals, counts and funder relationships this site computes.

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 HEART OF THE CITY OF LONDON LIMITED.

• HEART OF THE CITY OF LONDON LIMITED income £924k
• HEARTS AND HELPERS income £55k
• Somerville Heart Foundation income £119k
• HEARTBEAT UK income £40k
• HEART CHURCH income £1.4m
• COMMUNITY HEART (LONDON) income £160k

Side by side with its peers

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