Barts Charity is the dedicated charity for the five hospitals of the Barts Health NHS Trust. This year, thousands of children and older people will be in one of these hospitals on Christmas Day.
Help us give a present to every patient on a children's and older patient ward this Christmas and spread some festive joy.
Every year, we use donations to fund hundreds of projects to help patients in East London. By running in this fabulously festive event, you can support our work.
Join thousands of Santas to walk, jog or run around Victoria Park this Christmas. As well as a free Santa suit, we have lots of exciting incentives and prizes on offer...
In 2018/19 we gave £31 million to our partners at Barts Health NHS Trust and Barts and The London School of Medicine and Dentistry at Queen Mary University of London.
In our latest Annual Report, you can see the impact we're making by funding medical research, cutting-edge equipment, enhanced environments and projects that improve patient care.
We fund ground-breaking research, state-of-the-art equipment and innovative healthcare projects that change lives.
By supporting five hospitals and six medical research institutes, we bring extraordinary healthcare to the 2.5m people of East London and many more patients throughout the UK.
Building work has begun at Whipps Cross Hospital's Women's and Neonatal Unit thanks to our recent funding. Our £6.8m grant will transform the unit to benefit 50,000 local families over the next 10 years.
The experts at Barts Cancer Institute are internationally recognised for their outstanding cancer research.
Over the last two years, we've awarded them £10 million to focus on five translatable research projects which have been identified as key targets for research in the next decade.
Your support funds new healthcare research and exceptional care in your hospitals.
There are many ways you can help make healthcare extraordinary - find out how today!
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New research from the Centre for Trauma Sciences shows that their innovations in trauma care over the last decade have led to an increase in the number of patients now surviving their injuries.
This year, Laura, Joe and Haylee took on the monumental task of climbing Mount Kilimanjaro – one of the world’s tallest mountains. Their trek raised over £2,700 for St Bartholomew’s Hospital.
Join the Barts Charity team for some fabulously festive fun and you could be in the running for some brilliant prizes...
At Newham and St Bartholomew's, the palliative care team used our funding to create handprint kits that allow patients nearing the end of life to make enduring memories with their loved ones.