Barts Charity

Name

Barts Charity

Legal name

Barts Charity

Website

https://bartscharity.org.uk

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Healthcare Charity Philanthropy

NAICS

Grantmaking Foundations (813211), Voluntary Health Organizations (813212), Other Grantmaking and Giving Services (813219)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300), Services-Health Services (8000)

akta.pro primary industry

Public Charities & Grantmaking Intermediaries (BPAGAKAE)

akta.pro secondary industries

Grantmaking & Philanthropic Funds (Institutional Donors) (BPADAOAB), Philanthropic & Charitable Trust Services (FSAAANAI)

Keywords

• Healthcare philanthropy
• Medical research grants
• NHS charity funding
• Hospital fundraising
• Community health giving

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Others, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Personnel

Revenue model

1. Donations: One-time and recurring donations from individual supporters via website, phone, post, and JustGiving platform. Monthly giving programmes enable sustainable funding.
2. Legacies and Bequests: Gifts left in supporters' Wills, described as life-affirming gifts that ensure long-term sustainability. The charity received £1.3m from wills in year to April 2025.
3. Fundraising Events: Registration fees and sponsorship from events including Hike for Health, Shoreditch Half, Royal Parks Half Marathon, Brighton Marathon, cycle events, and challenge events.
4. Philanthropy: Major gifts from individual philanthropists, corporate supporters, and institutional funders including trusts and foundations. Includes named partnerships with significant funding commitments.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels6 records

Marketing channels7 records

Core offering

Barts Charity is a healthcare charity that funds ground-breaking medical research, transformational healthcare projects, NHS staff support, and patient experience improvements for Barts Health NHS Trust hospitals and partner research institutes in East London. It raises donations, legacies, and philanthropic gifts, then distributes them as grants across multiple funding schemes ranging from small seed grants (£75k) to large transformational investments (up to £600k), including named facilities and programmes such as the Breast Cancer Centre, Robotic Surgery Programme, and Clinical Research Facility.

Product overview

Barts Charity is a healthcare charity operating as a single unified offering (not a platform-plus-modules architecture) that funds research and healthcare projects across East London. Its grant programmes include Research Project Grants (£75k-£600k), Research Seed Grants (up to £75k), Healthcare Professional Clinical Research Training Fellowships, Advancing Healthcare Small and Large Grants, Everyday Impact Scheme grants, Targeted Transformational Funding, and Special Purpose Funds. Major healthcare investments include the £16.6m Breast Cancer Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital, a £7.6m Robotic Surgery Programme with Da Vinci and Ion robots, and the Vein to Vein Blood Transfusion Project. Research initiatives comprise the Doctoral Training Programme, REAL Health Programme, and Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing. Staff support services include the Psychological Support Service and Barts Hearts recognition platform. The Barts 900 Campaign aims to raise £30 million for two world-class medical centres. All funding flows through partnerships with Barts Health NHS Trust, Queen Mary University of London, and City St George's, University of London.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Barts 900 Campaign: A major fundraising campaign launched in 2023 to celebrate the 900th anniversary of St Bartholomew's Hospital, aiming to raise over £30 million for two new world-class medical centres.
• London's Lifeline: Trauma
• Vein to Vein
• Barts Bake
• My Thank You
• Everyday Impact
• Barts Hearts
• Psychological Support Service for Staff

Products and services

• Research Project Grants Grants ranging from £75,000 to £600,000 supporting innovative, health-related research that could improve lives in East London with internationally significant outputs. Open to researchers at partner institutions.
• Research Seed Grants Seed funding up to £75,000 for health-related research that could improve East London lives, supporting applications to other funders or pump-priming new academic-clinical collaborations.
• Healthcare Professional Clinical Research Training Fellowships Fellowships supporting healthcare professionals to undertake PhD training in health-related research, covering salary, PhD fees, and research costs for up to three years.
• Advancing Healthcare Small Grants Grants from £5,000 to £75,000 enabling NHS staff to pilot new ideas, technologies, and ways of working within Barts Health NHS Trust to advance healthcare delivery.
• Advancing Healthcare Large Grants Grants over £75,000 and up to £500,000 for larger healthcare advancement projects within Barts Health NHS Trust.
• Everyday Impact Scheme Grants from £2,000 to £50,000 funding straightforward, easy-to-implement changes that have significant impact on patient care, experience, and wellbeing across Barts Health hospitals.
• Targeted Transformational Funding Significant growth funding for transformational change and extraordinary impact, integrating research and patient care with longer-term support for bespoke projects.
• Special Purpose Funds (SPFs) Funds donated for restricted or specific purposes managed by Barts Charity, with an online expense claim scheme enabling Barts Health NHS Trust staff to access funding for eligible expenses.
• Breast Cancer Centre £16.6m state-of-the-art healthcare facility at St Bartholomew's Hospital bringing specialist breast surgeries and therapies together, featuring three surgical theatres for 1,800 surgeries annually.
• Robotic Surgery Programme £7.6m investment expanding robotic surgery capabilities with Da Vinci and Ion robotic systems, enabling over 600 additional minimally invasive surgeries annually with faster recovery times.
• Vein to Vein Blood Transfusion Project Project streamlining and modernising blood transfusion processes across Barts Health NHS Trust, saving 4.9 minutes per blood transfusion.
• Doctoral Training Programme Partnership with Queen Mary University of London developing the next generation of biomedical researchers focused on improving East London health.
• REAL Health Programme Research programme addressing child, respiratory, and cardiovascular health in East London.
• Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing Centre improving health, wellbeing, and care of older adults in North East London and beyond, featuring the ACHA (Academic Centre for Healthy Ageing) initiative.
• Psychological Support Service for Staff Dedicated psychologist access across all five Barts Health hospitals, providing mental health and wellbeing support to NHS staff.
• Barts Hearts Staff Recognition Platform Online platform enabling NHS staff to send hearts and appreciation messages to colleagues, with approximately one-third of staff using the platform weekly.
• My Thank You Platform Digital platform allowing patients and families to send personal thank you messages to NHS staff, volunteers, and teams at Barts Health hospitals.
• Barts Bake Fundraising Initiative A fundraising initiative encouraging supporters to host bake sales to raise money for the charity.
• Barts 900 Campaign £30 million fundraising campaign to coincide with St Bartholomew's Hospital's 900th anniversary, funding two new world-class medical centres in East London.
• London's Lifeline: Trauma Campaign Campaign developing next-generation life-saving trauma care, boosting London's capacity to protect against injury and set new global standards for trauma treatment.
• Clinical Research Facility New facility at The Royal London Hospital enabling East Londoners to participate in early phase clinical trials, funded by £1 million from Wolfson Foundation and £1 million from Charles Wolfson Charitable Trust.

Quantifiable outcome

• £149m awarded in last five years to fund research and healthcare projects
• +6 more outcomes

Named customers9 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration5 records

Partnerships

Six partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• Barts Health NHS TrustcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerPrimary NHS partner - Barts Charity is the dedicated charity for Barts Health NHS Trust, supporting five hospitals: St Bartholomew's, Whipps Cross, Newham, The Royal London, and Mile End. Partnership drives life-changing improvements to health in East London through direct funding of healthcare projects and staff support.
• Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerKey research partner, regularly ranked as one of the best medical and dental schools in the UK. Partnership enables world-leading medical research funding across multiple institutes including Blizard Institute, Barts Cancer Institute, Institute of Dentistry, William Harvey Research Institute, and Wolfson Institute of Preventive Medicine.
• School of Health & Medical Sciences, City St George's, University of LondoncoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerResearch partner providing health and psychology education and applied research. Supports healthcare professionals and researchers in improving East London health outcomes.
• NHS Charities TogetherminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerNational partnership supporting NHS charities across the UK. Barts Charity is a member of this collective working to improve NHS services.
• National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerGovernment body providing research funding support for healthcare research projects, working alongside Barts Charity on clinical trials.
• Octopus LegacyminorStrategic or Co-development PartnerPartnership for free Will-writing service for supporters, encouraging legacy giving to Barts Charity.

Scale indicators32 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Direct peers

• Guy's & St Thomas' Charity: London-based NHS charity dedicated to Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust, funding health innovation, research, and patient care in South London. Most directly comparable peer: same operating model (dedicated NHS hospital charity), similar grant programme structure, and parallel London geography.
• Royal Free Charity: Charity supporting the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust, funding research, equipment, patient experience, and staff wellbeing across North London hospitals. Direct peer: single-NHS-trust model, comparable grant programmes, overlapping London catchment.
• King's College Hospital Charity: Charity dedicated to King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust in South East London, funding research, innovation, and patient care improvements. Direct peer operating the same NHS-anchored grantmaking model in London.
• Imperial Health Charity: Charity supporting Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust hospitals in West London, funding research, arts, patient experience, and staff wellbeing. Direct peer: dedicated NHS-trust charity with parallel grantmaking and capital project focus.

Broad incumbents

• NHS Charities Together: National umbrella organisation representing and supporting NHS charities across the UK, of which Barts Charity is a member. Broader incumbent operating at sector level rather than individual trust level; provides collective advocacy, fundraising, and shared services.
• Wellcome Trust: UK-based global charitable foundation funding health research at vastly larger scale (£30bn+ endowment). Broad incumbent in health research funding; shares the model of deploying charitable capital into biomedical and translational research, though at a much larger scale and broader geographic remit.
• The Health Foundation: UK independent charity focused on improving health and health care through research, policy analysis, and grants. Broad incumbent in health-focused grantmaking; shares the model of using charitable assets to fund health improvement, with stronger policy and analytics orientation.
• British Heart Foundation: UK national charity funding cardiovascular research, with which Barts Charity actively co-funds heart research at Barts Heart Centre. Broad incumbent with overlapping cardiovascular research funding focus; larger national scale and broader donor base.
• Cancer Research UK: UK national charity funding cancer research, including research at Queen Mary University of London that Barts Charity also supports. Broad incumbent with overlapping oncology research funding mission; significantly larger scale and national reach.
• Macmillan Cancer Support: UK charity providing cancer support, funding some NHS cancer services and patient experience programmes. Broader incumbent in the cancer/healthcare charity space; complementary rather than directly competitive, but indicative of the larger UK healthcare charity ecosystem.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses1 record

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/Barts_Charity
• YouTubeyoutube.com/channel/UCDQLBJEousK3CqkkAOoyazw
• Facebookfacebook.com/bartscharity
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/bartscharity
• Instagraminstagram.com/barts.charity

Compliance3 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

Frequently asked questions about Barts Charity