Action Heart provides a cardiac rehabilitation service that helps people who have suffered from a heart attack, undergone cardiac surgery, or have a cardiac related condition. Coronary Heart Disease is now seen to be the UK's biggest killer and Action Heart is dedicated to the primary and secondary prevention of this condition.
It is a world leading medical research institute carrying out vital research into various diseases and illnesses including Sudden Infant Death Syndrom (SIDS or cot death), Intra-Uterine Growth Retardation (IUGR), pre-eclampsia, burns injuries incl. children's burns, skin repair, tendon and ligament injury, fistula, bowel disorders, heart disease, stroke and other vascular disorders.
Balloons4Hearts is a campaign by the Norfolk Heart Trust to raise £1m to provide vital equipment for heart surgery in Norwich so that patients do not have to make the long trip to Papworth in Cambridgeshire.
BAPS Swaminarayan Sanstha is an international UN-affiliated charity organising in the UK:<p> · Education seminars and youth activities to guide, assist, support and positively inspire children and young adults <p> · In-house health awareness programmes to promote a healthy lifestyle <p> · Conventions promoting family values, anti-addiction, social cohesion, and interfaith harmony <p>
The Trust is set up in memory of Ben Williams who died aged 14. It aims to promote awareness and research into heart muscle disorders in children and to support those affected and their families. It also supports youth cricket projects with a particular emphasis on wicketkeeping.
Every year in the UK, 125,000 people have an unnecessary heart attack or stroke in which high blood pressure is a key factor. The Blood Pressure Association exists to fight the causes of high blood pressure to prevent strokes and heart disease in the UK.
Blue Skies Hospitals Fund supports the best healthcare and the best medical research, on the UK’s premier tourist coast. Our aim is to banish the gloom of illness, allowing everyone to enjoy the blue skies of good health and the Fylde Coast. For the area’s 330,000 residents, and the 12 million or so holidaymakers who visit each year, Blue Skies Hospitals Fund reaches out with help that brightens those lives. The charity underpins the work of Blackpool, Fylde and Wyre Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, home to top quality patient services and medical research projects, and the employer of thousands of highly skilled doctors, nurses, healthcare professionals and support staff. The sole purpose of Blue Skies Hospitals Fund is to nurture the provision of quality NHS care on the Fylde Coast. The best technology, the most effective training, the latest research and the highest standards of care: in place and easy to access, should you ever need them.
Borders Health Board Endowment Funds is a charity whose aim is to enhance and improve patient care and facilities. Fundraisers can specify which ward, department or hospital within NHS Borders that should benefit from their donation.
The British Heart Foundation is the nation's heart charity. Every day they save lives, through pioneering research, providing vital information to help people reduce their own heart health risks, campaigning for change and supporting and caring for heart patients.
Hundreds of young people die unexpectedly of heart defects every year. CRY works to raise awareness of Sudden Death Syndrome (SDS) and campaigns for proactive screening of young people. It offers help and support to those who have suffered a loss, provides medical information, carries out Mobile Cardiac Screening and ECG Testing Programmes within local communities and contributes to medical research. For more information please go to www.c-r-y.org.uk
The Cardiomyopathy Association provides support, advice and information for individuals and families suffering from Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy (HCM), Dilated Cardiomyopathy (DCM), Arrhythmogenic Right Ventricular Cardiomyopathy (ARVC), and Restrictive Cardiomyopathy.
Chain of Hope provides children suffering from life-threatening heart diseases with treatment to which they do not have access and we aim to develop paediatric cardiac facilities in developing countries. Chain of Hope provides cardiac care in two ways: · By sending out medical teams to treat children in-country and by setting up training programmes for local surgeons and medical staff in-situ. · By bringing children to the UK for open and closed heart operations as an interim measure.
For over 10 years Challenge Adventure Charities has organised charity bike rides, mainly in France. The Charity has raised over 2 million pounds for mainly medical and children's charities, but also for lots of other extremely worthwhile causes.
The Charlie Ramsey Research Fund supports and sponsors research that will benefit babies and children with a Single Ventricle Heart Condition (half a heart). The Charity provides and sponsors medical equipment to assist in the research and development of surgery for Single Ventricle Heart Disease. The charity promotes and raises awareness of the importance of saving lives through organ donation, the gift of life.
Chest, Heart and Stroke Scotland aims to improve the quality of life for people in Scotland affected by chest, heart and stroke illness, through medical research, advice and information, and support in the community.
Formed in the UK in 1973, the Children's Heart Association (formerly known as The Association for Children with Heart Disorders) is a support group run by families and friends of cardiac children for families with , or who have had, children with heart disorders.
The Children's Heart Surgery Fund enhances patient facilities and support, provides the latest medical equipment and funds world renowned research dedicated to babies, children and teenagers with heart defects.
CORDA supports high quality research into the early diagnosis and prevention of heart disease and stroke through non-invasive techniques (magnetic resonance imaging and ultrasound). Currently, projects are supported at Royal Brompton Hospital and Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.
East Cheshire Hospice provides special care for adults with life-limiting illnesses from which there is no cure and also supports their families and carers. Our services are completely free and we need to raise over £5,500 every single day just to keep going.
ECHO provides support and assistance to families of children who have been born with heart conditions who are treated at the Evelina Children's Hospital in London. We help make life more bearable for families whose lives have been devastated by their child's, often life-limiting, heart condition. We offer telephone support, free newsletters, regular social events, ward visits, pre-natal support, and provide small items of medical equipment as well as furniture and equipment for parents' use whilst staying with their child at the Evelina Hospital.
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To help and support transplant patients of the Freeman Hospital, Newcastle upon Tyne both financially and by providing facilities for recreation to enable them to improve their condition. Also to educate the public of the need for organ donation.
GUCH Patients Association helps young people and adults who were born with a heart condition. It provides information and advice services and organises conferences and events to educate, raise awareness and combat isolation.
Community Responders are able to support people in the first few onutes following a heart attack or other life threatening event.
Heart Care is a local medical charity. It provides cardiac rehabilitation and after care to people who have suffered a heart attack, undergone heart surgery and surgical intervention or suffer from other coronary heart conditions. Through Heart Care's unique exercise programme patients can return to a normal, healthy, active life.
Cardiac stem cell therapy marks a breakthrough in medical research that has the potential to revolutionise the treatment of many illnesses. The use of stem cells taken from the patient and inserted back into their damaged heart has led to new hope for those who suffer with heart disease.
Heart Link, was originally formed as a support group for parents and families who have a child suffering from a heart defect. Since 1981 we have collected over £2.5 million pounds. This has been used to fund projects large and small
Heart Research is a visionary charity that leads the way funding ground breaking, innovative, medical research projects at the cutting edge of science into the prevention, treatment and cure of heart disease. There is a strong emphasis on supporting clinical and surgical projects and young researchers on their first steps into research. The charity also encourages and supports original healthy lifestyle initiatives that explore novel ways of preventing heart disease in all sectors of the community.
At H.E.A.R.T UK we’re passionate about preventing premature deaths caused by high cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Inherited high cholesterol (IHC) affects about one person in every 100 and can cause early cardiovascular disease and shorten lives. IHC can kill fit young people, without warning, in their 30s, 40s and even in their 20s!
Heartbeat is based in the Northwest and helps local people recover and rebuild their lives after suffering heart illness, heart attack, cardiac surgery or angina. All resources and funds raised are used primarily for long term cardiac rehabilitation. Heartbeat also supports education to reduce the incidence of heart disease.
HeartLine provides information and support to children with heart disorders and their families and friends. Packs of information are sent to hospitals that treat Heart Children. It can arrange one-to-one contact for particular types of heart defects, for people whose babies won't feed, for Grandparents and for those expecting a baby with a heart condition.
The charity helps fund medical equipment throughout the trust, and enhances the level of care by financing many courses and education days. It helps improve both patient and staff environments and holds many different funds reflecting the sheer size of the trust
It raises funds to help finance research into long QT syndrome and other cardiac arrhythmias which are responsible for sudden and unexplained death in babies, children and young adults who are otherwise healthy. It also ensures the publication of results of such research.
The charity's work centres on helping people who suffer from heart disease - the biggest killer in the community. It supports NHS hospitals across Yorkshire by raising money to buy the latest generation of medical equipment to aid the diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of heart patients.
Kent Community Foundation is a charitable foundation set up to encourage philanthropy for the benefit of the people of Kent. Our unique approach to philanthropy allows individuals and businesses to support their own specific local interests and causes and in doing so invest in the future of their community. Our concept is simple. We provide the means for individuals and organisations to establish their own charitable 'funds' which, alongside our own general endowment, provide benefit to local people. We offer all the pleasure of giving without any of the hassle. We champion small groups and organisations, going out of our way to find local charities, community groups and voluntary organisations that need support. We guide them through our various funds in order to help them achieve their aims, which are in the main to improve quality of life for the people of Kent. Kent Community Foundation is seven years old this year. When the Foundation was established in 2001 it would have been difficult to conceive that seven years on more than £8.5 million would have been distributed to in excess of 3000 groups and organisations benefiting literally tens of thousands of people across Kent. A huge thank you goes to all those who have given and continue to give us their support. It is because of such people and organisations that in our seventh year alone we will be able to distribute close to £2.6 million and our donors 'endowed' funds have grown to in excess of £1.3 million
Lakelands provides specialist palliative day care and support services for up to one hundred patients per week. Our aim is to enhance the quality of life for those in need and their loved ones at a time of crisis and beyond in an environment that provides tranquillity, support and care.
Leicester Hospitals Charity aims to provide the best possible facilities and environment for patients, staff and visitors as well as helping to supply state-of-the-art equipment. We rely on the kindness and generosity of the many individuals, groups and companies who donate their time and money to help us reach this aim.
MEAK provide medical and educational supplies to Kenya as well as carrying out open heart surgery in Nairobi on sick children using a team of medics recruited from Guys and St Thomas' Hospital, who all provide their services free of charge. It also runs eye camps in remote areas of Kenya
The Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital is committed to high quality research and is fortunate to have a fully established Clinical Trial Unit and a Research Laboratory on site. Our researchers are dedicated to reducing heart and lung disease and in 1998 we launched the Merseybeat Appeal to support research projects undertaken at the hospital. The Hospital uses the funds raised to maintain and develop standards of excellence in patient care. Our pioneering researchers and scientists have contributed to vital advances in cardiovascular medicine, helping to prevent heart and lung disease and improving treatments for patients of the future.
Moving the World is CEVA Logistics' charity foundation, whose employees help raise funds for nominated charities such as Macmillan Cancer Support, British Heart Foundation & Transaid.
Newcastle Healthcare Charity is an NHS dedicated charity who support local hospital services at the RVI, Newcastle General and Walkergate hospitals (general & specialist care); St Nicholas & St George's hospitals (mental health services) and Hunters Moor hospitals (neuro-rehabilitation). The charity enhances patient care, treatment and experience through a wide variety of grants; supports innovative research and development and facilitates additional training and support for NHS staff
The Newcastle upon Tyne Hospitals NHS Charity is the official charity for the Freeman Hospital. The charity enhances patient care, treatment and experience through a wide variety of grants; supports innovative research and facilitates additional training and support for NHS staff. A full list of services provided by the hospital is available on request.
The aim of NI Chest, Heart and Stroke is to promote the prevention of and alleviate the suffering resulting from chest heart and stroke related illnesses. It does this through Support & Rehabilitation, research, health promotion, lobbying, financial support and advice & information.
Following the sudden death of the much loved and respected Faversham Doctor, Rod Kesson, a fund has been set up to raise money for the Charities he supported. Charities RKBF supports includes: Friends of the Faversham Cottage Hospital Pilgrims Hospices Breakthrough Breast Cancer British Heart Foundation Barnard Scholarship
The Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Trust is the largest postgraduate specialist heart and lung centre in the UK, with an international reputation as leaders in the research, treatment and education of heart and lung disease. Money raised through the Charitable Fund sponsors pioneering research which helps to understand the causes of these diseases and develop new treatments.
SADS UK is a charity helping to Save Lives, informing the general public and health professionals of symptoms of Heart Conditions that can cause a Sudden Arrhythmic Death if not detected and treated. The charity donates heart monitoring and medical equipment to medical establishments and defibrillators in the community.
The Heart Circle supports children undergoing cardiac care at the Bristol Children's Hospital, and their families. It covers an area from Cornwall to South Wales. The charity provides support from parents who have had similar experiences, social events, a caravan for short breaks and equipment to make the children's lives easier.
Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust first opened its doors to patients in 1932 and since then has built up a fine reputation for providing high quality acute hospital care. We always aim to put into practice our motto of ‘putting patients first’.
STARS Works together with individuals, families and medical professionals to offer support and information on Syncopes and Reflex Anoxic Seizures