We are the national independent charity caring for the NHS and we’re here for everyone who loves the NHS. Together with a network of over 240 NHS charities across the UK, we provide the extra support needed to care for NHS staff, patients and communities.
Donations to NHS Charities Together help take pressure off an overstretched NHS, helping the NHS go further for everyone. We support incredible NHS staff and emergency volunteers so that they can continue with their vital life-saving work. We also fund projects that prevent ill health and improve services for patients. Our national reach through a network of NHS charities covering the UK means that we can ensure funds go quickly where they are needed most.
As a membership organisation we also lead nationwide fundraising and advocacy campaigns, specialist advice and guidance, conferences and training or NHS charities – because we know that together we can help the NHS be the best it can be.
We believe our collective mission is more important than ever as the NHS faces the most challenging time in its history. And we have been overwhelmed by the heartfelt support from across the nation to get behind the NHS during this critical time.
A big thank you to our amazing supporters – your help is making a huge difference to NHS staff, volunteers and patients, and is more important than ever.
Donations to NHS Charities Together help take pressure off an overstretched NHS, helping the NHS go further for everyone. We support incredible NHS staff and emergency volunteers so that they can continue with their vital life-saving work. We also fund projects that prevent ill health and improve services for patients. Our national reach through a network of NHS charities covering the UK means that we can ensure funds go quickly where they are needed most.
As a membership organisation we also lead nationwide fundraising and advocacy campaigns, specialist advice and guidance, conferences and training or NHS charities – because we know that together we can help the NHS be the best it can be.
We believe our collective mission is more important than ever as the NHS faces the most challenging time in its history. And we have been overwhelmed by the heartfelt support from across the nation to get behind the NHS during this critical time.
A big thank you to our amazing supporters – your help is making a huge difference to NHS staff, volunteers and patients, and is more important than ever.
WHAT DO NHS CHARITIES DO?
People have been donating money to health services since well before the NHS was created. The 240 member charities of NHS Charities Together are based in hospital, ambulance trusts, mental health trusts, community health trusts and health boards across the UK and they give over £1 million every day to the NHS so that people can stay well for longer and get better faster.
Most of them focus on helping our health services to do more. From supporting research and development, to brightening up hospital environments, to donating state-of-the-art technologies and equipment, the charities raise funds and mobilise volunteers, touching lives and making a huge difference to millions of people when they are at their most vulnerable.
During the Covid-19 pandemic this focus has shifted to supporting immediate practical and emotional needs of staff and patients and helping to take pressure off an overstretched health service.
The aim of NHS Charities Together and the wider NHS charity network is to provide extra care and support for NHS staff and patients, enabling health services to do more, beyond the core services that would ordinarily be funded by government. This helps improve the wellbeing of patients and saves lives. With current relentless pressures on the NHS the extra support provided by NHS charities is more important than ever.
STATISTICS
241 Members
Supporting NHS services throughout the UK
£150million raised
Via the NHS Charities Together Covid-19 Appeal
Over £1million spent every day
By NHS charities throughout the UK
