Asthma UK

What Asthma UK does

Asthma + Lung UK is a UK-registered charity (formerly operating as Asthma UK, founded 1927) that supports people living with lung conditions including asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, and pneumonia. The organization was formed through the merger of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation and is now registered across England and Wales (326730), Scotland (SC038415), and the Isle of Man (1177). Its core service portfolio comprises a national phone and email helpline, a comprehensive online condition information portal, inhaler-technique video guides, in-person, online, and singing support groups for breathlessness management, a healthcare-professionals hub with training and a respiratory champions program, a research information portal, downloadable leaflets, a blog, and benefits and financial-help guidance. PIF TICK certification underpins the credibility of its health information output.

The underlying technology platform is a content- and community-oriented web stack rather than a software product: a public website serving as a condition resource hub, helpline telephony and email infrastructure, video hosting for inhaler-technique demonstrations, and an online shop selling leaflets and booklets. The organization also maintains dedicated research-grant-making and patient-involvement-in-research functions, and conducts policy campaigning including petitions for dedicated respiratory plans and air-pollution measures.

Asthma + Lung UK's revenue model is donation-driven and diversified across individual donations and regular giving, legacies and wills, events participation (including the TCS London Marathon), corporate partnerships, and shop sales of educational leaflets and booklets. Services to beneficiaries are provided free of charge. Customer segments span people with asthma, COPD, and other lung conditions (primary), parents and carers, and healthcare professionals. The organization is headquartered at The White Chapel Building, 10 Whitechapel High Street, London, E1 8QS, and operates within the United Kingdom. Sarah Woolnough serves as Chief Executive Officer.

Name

Asthma UK

Legal name

Asthma and Lung UK

Website

https://asthma.org.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

1927

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Asthma + Lung UK is a UK-registered charity, formed from the merger of Asthma UK and the British Lung Foundation, that supports people with asthma, COPD, bronchiectasis, and pneumonia through a national helpline, condition information resources, support groups, and research funding.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Respiratory Health Charity Services

NAICS

Other Similar Organizations (except Business, Professional, Labor, and Political Organizations) (813990), Other Individual and Family Services (624190)

SIC

Services-Misc Health & Allied Services, Nec (8090), Services-Membership Organizations (8600)

akta.pro primary industry

Asthma & Allergy-Related Pulmonary Care (HLAKANAD)

akta.pro secondary industries

Asthma & Airway Disease Specialty Care (HLAKAAAC), COPD & Chronic Bronchitis Management (HLAKANAE)

Keywords

• Respiratory health support
• Lung condition information
• Charity healthcare services
• Medical research funding
• Patient helpline services

Headquarters

HQ city

London

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Donations and Fundraising: Individual donations, regular giving, and fundraising activities from supporters
2. Legacies and Wills: Gifts left in supporters' wills to support the charity's mission
3. Events Participation: Revenue from participants joining events such as TCS London Marathon, treks, cycling challenges, and skydiving events
4. Corporate Partnerships: Engaging companies as corporate partners through fundraising activities, events and volunteering opportunities
5. Shop Sales: Sale of leaflets, booklets and resources about lung conditions through the online shop

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Asthma UK is a registered charity that supports people living with asthma and lung conditions by providing health information, advice services, and funding medical research. Operating in the United Kingdom since 1927, the organisation has merged with the British Lung Foundation to operate as Asthma + Lung UK, combining support services, helplines, public health information, and research grants aimed at improving outcomes for those affected by respiratory disease.

Product overview

Asthma + Lung UK operates as a charity organization offering a unified portfolio of support services for people with lung conditions. The core offerings include a helpline service (phone/email support), condition information resources covering asthma, bronchiectasis, COPD, and pneumonia, inhaler technique video guides, support groups (online, in-person, and singing), a healthcare professionals hub with training resources, research information portal, downloadable leaflets and booklets, a blog with advice articles, and financial/bBenefits guidance. These services work together to provide comprehensive support from diagnosis through ongoing management of lung conditions.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Asthma + Lung UK helpline advice service

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators1 record

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Regional players

• American Lung Association: Major US lung-health non-profit funding research, advocacy, and patient education on asthma, COPD and related conditions; the most direct international analogue to Asthma + Lung UK's combined-condition charter.
• National Asthma Council Australia: Australian asthma-focused organisation providing clinical resources, information, and education to patients and healthcare professionals; directly comparable condition focus but operating in a different geography.

Direct peers

• Alzheimer's Society: UK dementia charity offering helpline, information resources, local support services, and research funding; highly comparable operating model and beneficiary engagement approach.
• Diabetes UK: UK charity supporting people with diabetes through helpline, online resources, local support groups, and research funding; operates a near-identical multi-channel chronic-condition support model.
• British Liver Trust: UK charity dedicated to liver conditions, providing helpline, patient information, support networks, and research funding; comparable as a smaller-scale single-organ disease charity operating similar services to Asthma + Lung UK.
• Mind (mental health charity): UK mental health charity providing helpline, information resources, local associations, and campaigning; directly comparable multi-channel support and advocacy model for a chronic-condition population.

Broad incumbents

• Cancer Research UK: The UK's foremost research-funding health charity with extensive retail, event, and legacy income streams; comparable as a UK non-profit combining research grants with public-facing information and campaigning.
• Macmillan Cancer Support: Major UK cancer charity providing information, support line, financial guidance, and research funding; directly comparable scale, multi-channel beneficiary model, and donation-driven revenue structure.
• British Heart Foundation: One of the UK's largest health charities, funding cardiovascular research and providing patient support; comparable as a UK-wide disease-specific non-profit with helpline, supporter community, retail, and research funding functions parallel to Asthma + Lung UK.

Emerging players

• Sickle Cell Society: Smaller UK non-profit supporting people with sickle cell disease through information, advocacy, and community networks; comparable as a specialist chronic-condition support charity with narrower disease focus.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/asthmauk
• Facebookfacebook.com/asthmauk
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/asthma-uk

Compliance1 record

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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Investments

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