British Heart Foundation vs British Red Cross
British Heart Foundation grades higher: A- against B+.
Registered charity #225971
The UK’s largest independent funder of cardiovascular research, backed by a huge retail engine and clean, on-time reporting.
Read the full receiptRegistered charity #220949
A large, competent emergency-response charity that spent more than it raised last year and asks you to fund overhead as well as outcomes.
Read the full receiptThe numbers
Side by side, from the accounts
British Heart Foundation
British Red Cross
Mar 2025
Year ended
Dec 2024
£411m
Income
£287m
£427m
Spending
£310m
4,545
Staff
3,286
20,000
Volunteers
10,200
11
Trustees
12
None
Flags raised
1 red, 0 amber
Each column shows the latest year that charity has filed, so the periods can differ. Spend ratios appear only where both charities disclose them at that level of detail. See methodology.