What Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity does

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity is a UK-registered charity (no. 1053584) and company limited by guarantee (no. 07795583), headquartered at 1 The Courtyard, 151 Sydney Street, London. It is the linked fundraising entity for two specialist NHS heart and lung hospitals — Royal Brompton Hospital in Chelsea and Harefield Hospital in Harefield — and funds equipment, clinical research, training infrastructure, and patient amenities that fall outside core NHS commissioning. Core programmes include the Cardio-Oncology Centre of Excellence (one of only two UK centres with Gold Class status from the International Cardio-Oncology Society), rb&hArts (a permanent collection of 1,200+ pieces plus live music and craft programmes), the Heart of West London Partnership with Brentford FC, the Patients' Fund, the ITU Sunshine Terrace, the Harefield Healing Garden, and the annual Research Seed Grant Awards (£290,000+ distributed in 2025/26 across eight projects). Following the 1 September 2025 merger with Friends of Harefield Hospital, the combined entity operates from a single governance structure with two hospital-based Charity Hubs.

The charity operates on a donation-funded economic model rather than a commercial revenue model. Income streams comprise individual donations (one-time and recurring via Stripe, PayPal, and GoCardless direct debit), corporate partnerships (Business Club membership tiers at £240/year Silver and £1,200/year Gold; bespoke partnerships with corporates including Daiwa Capital Markets, Brentford FC, Jarvis Build, Medtronic, and Johnson & Johnson Medtech), challenge and community events (London Marathon places at £100 registration with a £2,500 sponsorship target, London Bridges Walk, Shakin' Stevens Charity Golf Day, Royal Parks Half Marathon), legacy/bequest giving, and trust and foundation grants. JustGiving is integrated for individual fundraiser pages, and the charity maintains PCI-DSS-compliant payment processing. Commercial-style pricing tiers exist only for the Business Club programme and discrete challenge-event entry fees; charitable donations themselves are voluntary.

The organisation runs with a small staff of 11–50 employees supplemented by volunteer networks, trustees (recently expanded to include Gira Davda, Matthew Kennedy, and Charlie Carrington-Brown), clinical ambassadors, and lifetime patrons. Distribution is multi-channel: dedicated charity hubs inside both hospitals, justgiving-style online fundraising pages, an active social presence across Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X, and LinkedIn, the biannual News Beat print newsletter, and earned media. Multi-year research and consortium partnerships (notably the £900,000 Marie Curie–Leeds Hospitals Charity research collaboration announced June 2025) anchor an increasingly programmatic funding posture that extends well beyond one-off equipment grants.

Name

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity

Legal name

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity

Website

https://rbhcharity.org

Company type

Private

Founded year

1841

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity is a London-based UK registered charity that raises funds to support advanced treatment, research, equipment, and patient amenities at two specialist NHS heart and lung hospitals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Charity and Hospital Fundraising

NAICS

Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations (813)

akta.pro primary industry

Hospitals, Clinics & Charitable Healthcare Providers (BPAGACAB)

akta.pro secondary industry

Palliative Care, Hospice & Serious Illness Support (BPAGACAK)

Keywords

• Hospital charity fundraising
• Heart and lung research funding
• Healthcare philanthropy
• Medical equipment grants
• Patient welfare programmes

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Others, Technology or R&D

Revenue model

1. Individual Donations: One-time and recurring donations from individuals supporting heart and lung healthcare
2. Corporate Partnerships: Sponsorship and partnership agreements with businesses including corporate membership programs (Business Club Silver/Gold tiers) and project-specific sponsorships
3. Events and Challenges: Registration fees and fundraising from challenge events including London Marathon, London Bridges Walk, Golf Days, and community runs
4. Legacy Giving: Bequests and legacy gifts left in wills by supporters
5. Trust and Foundation Grants: Funding applications to charitable trusts and foundations for specific projects

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels9 records

Core offering

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity is a registered charity (No. 1053584) that raises and distributes funds to support Royal Brompton Hospital and Harefield Hospital, the UK's largest specialist heart and lung centres. The charity funds pioneering medical equipment, clinical research, patient amenities, arts and wellbeing programmes, and staff training beyond NHS budgets. It also delivers challenge events, corporate partnership programmes, and trust and foundation grants.

Product overview

Royal Brompton & Harefield Hospitals Charity operates as a charitable foundation supporting two world-class heart and lung hospitals. The organisation offers a portfolio of patient care projects (Cardio-Oncology Centre of Excellence, Patients' Fund, ITU Sunshine Terrace, Harefield Healing Garden), arts and wellbeing programmes (rb&hArts), research funding (Research Seed Grant Awards), and community partnerships (Heart of West London Partnership). Additionally, the charity provides fundraising participation options including challenge events (London Marathon, London Bridges Walk, Shakin' Stevens Golf Day), corporate partnerships, and business club memberships. The core offering centres on funding equipment, research and amenities beyond NHS scope to make the hospitals extraordinary.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• rb&hArts: Award-winning arts programme offering art, music and craft sessions to support patient recovery and wellbeing at Royal Brompton and Harefield hospitals.
• Harefield Healing Garden
• Patients' Fund

Products and services

• Cardio-Oncology Centre of Excellence UK's first Cardio-Oncology Centre of Excellence focused on protecting heart health during cancer treatment. One of only two UK centres with Gold Class status from the International Cardio-Oncology Society. Developing AI tools for faster diagnosis and building the UK's first cardio-oncology biobank.
• rb&hArts Award-winning arts programme offering art, music and craft sessions including Visual Arts, Vocal Beats for children, Singing for Breathing for COPD/asthma patients, Live Music performances, and Crafternoons workshops. Features a permanent collection of over 1,200 pieces.
• Heart of West London Partnership Coalition partnership with Brentford FC, Cardiac Risk in the Young, and Resuscitation Council UK to tackle heart disease through awareness, research funding, faster diagnosis, CPR training, and community health promotion. £200,000 fundraising target with pound-for-pound match from Brentford FC.
• Patients' Fund Fund providing small but meaningful improvements for hospital patients including chair beds for relatives, TVs, iPads for children, portable fans, night-time noise reduction programmes, and art supplies. Entirely funded by donations.
• ITU Sunshine Terrace Outdoor sun therapy space at Harefield Hospital enabling intensive care patients on ventilators and ECMO to spend time outdoors. Designed by RHS Chelsea Flower Show gold medallist James Smith, with plans to triple capacity with additional medical gas points.
• Harefield Healing Garden Calm, accessible green space for patients, families and staff to pause, rest and recover. Features sensory planting areas, level paths for wheelchairs and hospital beds, and volunteer-maintained gardens. Won NHS Forest Therapeutic/Wellbeing Activities Award.
• Research Seed Grant Awards Annual research funding programme providing early-stage grants to clinical teams and scientists. 2025/26 awards exceeded £290,000 across eight projects covering heart transplant rejection detection, coronary plaque research, cellular mapping, imaging techniques, cystic fibrosis treatment, and pregnancy-related cardiovascular conditions.
• RBH Business Club Membership Network of local businesses supporting heart and lung healthcare with Silver (£240/year) and Gold (£1,200/year) membership tiers offering window stickers, website recognition, magazine features, event discounts, and trademark licensing.
• Corporate Partnership Programme Strategic partnership programme enabling companies to support heart and lung patients through volunteering, fundraising activities, CSR/ESG goal alignment, event sponsorship, and direct engagement with clinicians and patients.
• London Marathon 2027 Charity Places Charity places for the London Marathon requiring £100 registration and £2,500 minimum sponsorship. Includes running vest, fundraising pack, and one-to-one support.
• Shakin' Stevens Charity Golf Day 2026 Annual golf event at Denham Golf Club featuring 18-hole team competition, on-course challenges, three-course dinner, raffle and entertainment. Four-ball team entry £700.
• London Bridges Walk 2026 Annual walking challenge across London's bridges with 5km, 10km and wheelchair-accessible routes. Registration fees £10-£20 with commemorative t-shirt and medal.
• In Rhythm Concert Annual fundraising concert supporting the arts programme at Royal Brompton & Harefield hospitals. Features specialist hospital musicians, patients, and guest performances at St Luke's Church, Chelsea.
• Impella Simulator Training Specialised cardiac support device training using simulators developed at Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals. Funded by Johnson & Johnson Medtech – Heart Recovery (£50,718), supporting over 70 training sessions across UK and Europe.

Quantifiable outcome

• £290,000+ awarded to eight research projects in 2025/26
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration4 records

AI capability3 records

Partnerships

Nine partnerships are on record, tiered major, core, flagship and minor.

• Jarvis BuildmajorGTM or Marketing Partner · 17 September 2025Construction specialists who gifted complete renovation of Harefield Hospital nursery through gift in kind. Collaboration transformed previously unusable rooms into stimulating play spaces.
• Friends of Harefield HospitalcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 September 2025Merger effective 1 September 2025 combining volunteer-led charity (since 1963) with Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals Charity. The Friends funded projects including £42,000 training manikin for STaR Centre in 2018.
• Marie CuriecoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025UK's leading end-of-life charity launching £900,000 research funding partnership. £200,000 joint fund (with RBH Charity) for research focusing on improving end-of-life experiences for heart/lung disease patients in hospital.
• Leeds Hospitals CharitycoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 June 2025Joint research partnership for palliative and end-of-life care. £300,000 joint fund (with Marie Curie) for Leeds Teaching Hospitals research.
• MedtroniccoreTechnology or Integration · 1 June 2025World-leading medical technology company partnering to deliver ECMObile mobile simulation centre at Royal Brompton Hospital, offering rare behind-the-scenes look at ECMO life support technology.
• Heart of West London Partnership (Brentford FC, Brentford FC Community Sports Trust, Cardiac Risk in the Young, Resuscitation Council UK)flagshipStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2024Coalition of charities and organisations passionate about heart health, aiming to change the game for heart disease. Includes cardiac screenings, CPR training, and research funding. Brentford FC matches every pound raised up to £200,000 target. Partnership won Business Charity Award Consortium Award.
• King's Road PartnershipcoreGTM or Marketing PartnerHeadline partner for RBH Business Club. Celebrates King's Road heritage, uniting communities to sustain British creativity, style, and vibrancy.
• Daiwa Capital Markets EuropemajorGTM or Marketing PartnerCorporate partner whose mission aligns with enabling longer, better lives. Partnership has funded vital healthcare innovations and strengthened community through shared fundraising efforts.
• NuGenminorGTM or Marketing PartnerSponsor for Shakin' Stevens Charity Golf Day 2026.

Scale indicators15 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• British Heart Foundation: The UK's largest heart disease charity and the dominant national fundraiser for cardiac research and patient support. Directly competes with RBH Charity for heart-disease-related individual donors, corporate partnerships, and legacy gifts in the UK market.
• Macmillan Cancer Support: One of the UK's largest health charities, supporting people affected by cancer. Adjacent to RBH Charity's cardio-oncology work and a major competitor in the UK health-charity fundraising market for individual donors, corporate partners and challenge event participants.
• Cancer Research UK: The world's largest independent cancer-research charity. Competes for research grants, major donors and corporate partnerships across the UK, and overlaps with RBH Charity's cardio-oncology research positioning through its broader oncology portfolio.

Direct peers

• Asthma + Lung UK: The UK's leading respiratory charity, funding research and support for lung conditions including asthma and COPD. Directly competes with RBH Charity for lung-disease donor mindshare and research-grant positioning, particularly given RBH's cystic fibrosis and severe asthma work.
• Guy's & St Thomas' Foundation: Major London hospital-affiliated charity supporting Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust. Closely comparable operating model: linked charity raising funds for NHS hospital equipment, research and patient amenities in a London geography.
• Barts Charity: Charity supporting Barts Health NHS Trust hospitals in London. Comparable hospital-linked charity model focused on funding equipment, research and patient experience projects beyond NHS scope, competing in the same London corporate and individual donor market.
• Royal Marsden Cancer Charity: Charity supporting the Royal Marsden, a UK specialist cancer hospital. Closely comparable specialist-NHS-hospital charity model with similar fundraising channels (events, corporate partnerships, legacies, trust grants) and a strong research-funding focus.
• Great Ormond Street Hospital Charity: One of the UK's largest and best-known hospital charities, supporting a single specialist NHS hospital. Comparable model of funding research, equipment and patient amenities beyond NHS scope, with mature corporate partnership and challenge event programmes.
• Leeds Hospitals Charity: Charity supporting Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust. Already a joint research-funding partner with RBH Charity (Marie Curie partnership), operating the same hospital-charity model for research grants, equipment and patient amenities at a regional NHS trust.
• Marie Curie: UK's leading end-of-life charity and an active joint research partner of RBH Charity. Operates overlapping grantmaking, fundraising event, and corporate partnership models, with a fundraising base that overlaps in the older-donor and legacy-giving segments.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/RBHCharity
• YouTubeyoutube.com/@royalbromptonharefieldhosp9176
• Facebookfacebook.com/rbhcharity
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/royal-brompton-&-harefield-hospitals-charity
• Instagraminstagram.com/rbhcharity

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

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