2024-25 Annual Report and Accounts highlights outstanding achievements

Our 2024-25 Annual Report and Accounts underlines our outstanding achievements and bold new vision to secure a world in which everyone has a healthier heart for longer.

Over the past 12 months we have funded over £100m of groundbreaking research through more than 200 new research projects across 47 organisations.  

This year we’ve seen BHF-funded research lead to quick and safe monitoring for children with a potentially deadly heart condition, explored how AI can reduce underdiagnosis of common heart failure in Black patients, and found evidence that remote monitoring could help tackle waiting lists by preventing re-admissions to hospital.

We spent £47.2m on information and support, offering a lifeline to thousands of people with calls to our Heart Helpline increasing by 20 per cent, and 37 million views of our online health content.

Over 311,000 people were trained in CPR through our online RevivR tool; and more than 100,000 defibrillators are now registered on The Circuit, with more being placed in the communities that need them most.   

Raising vital funds to power this work has been challenging amid economic uncertainty. But we have achieved a record-breaking income of £181m thanks to our exceptional fundraisers, supporters, corporate partners, volunteers and staff.

Driving progress

Excitingly, through our new strategy, we have committed to seizing an era of immense scientific and technological opportunity – harnessing developments in artificial intelligence, genomics, and regenerative medicine to drive groundbreaking advances in prevention, treatment and care.

Dr Charmaine Griffiths, our Chief Executive said: “I’m proud to share the British Heart Foundation latest annual report which reflects the extraordinary progress we’ve made and is a reminder of the urgent challenges we still face. 
 
“Cardiovascular disease remains the world’s biggest killer. In the UK alone, someone dies from it every three minutes and that’s a stark reality we will never accept. But there is hope. This year, we invested over £100 million in pioneering science that will save lives. Every day, this research brings us closer to a future where fewer lives are lost and more hearts are healed.
 
“None of this would be possible without our incredible BHF community of researchers, volunteers, colleagues, fundraisers, and partners. Thank you to every supporter powering our mission. You are helping us save lives, one heartbeat at a time.”

We look forward over the next 12 months to saving more lives, discovering more groundbreaking treatments and cures and to supporting everyone with heart disease to live longer, healthier lives. 

Read on to discover how much has been achieved on an unprecedented scale in 2024-25. 

Read our Annual Report