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Annual Report & Accounts 2024/25

Imperial Health Charity is the dedicated charity for Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, supporting five London hospitals — Charing Cross, Hammersmith, Queen Charlotte's & Chelsea, St Mary's and the Western Eye. Their 2024/25 annual report covers grants, arts, volunteering and fundraising activity, including £5.3m in grants awarded, 35,043 volunteer hours and £6.9m raised — well above target.

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Grants programme, arts engagement, volunteering, research fellowships, patient hardship grants, Compassionate Communities programme, Innovate at Imperial innovation grants, special purpose funds

Key Metrics

Key Metric 1 £6.9m raised in 2024/25 (exceeding £4.9m target); £5.3m awarded in grants
Key Metric 2 1,097 volunteers contributed 35,043 hours and 184,681 patient interactions across five hospitals
Key Metric 3 773 participatory arts workshops held; 7,495 patient and staff engagements in arts activities; 2,500+ artworks in museum-accredited collection

Key Outcomes

  • Sleep apnoea home-testing service (AcuPebble) cut patient waiting times by up to 80% after receiving Innovate at Imperial grant — went on to win national HSJ award
  • 91% of past Innovate at Imperial grantees reported projects benefited patients; 82% said funding encouraged cross-department collaboration
  • 97% of NHS staff say Imperial Health Charity makes their hospital a better place to work; 94% agreed artwork on display improved their working environment

Geography

London

Impact Snapshot
Key Metric 1
Total income £18,180,000 and total expenditure £18,560,000 (year ended 31 December 2024, charity no. 1084958 England/Wales and SC039654 Scotland); in 2024 spent £3.8m on...
Key Metric 2
700+ members supported through in-person visits and support calls in 2025; 697 support grants allocated in 2025 for essential items including specialist clothing, cooling...
Key Metric 3
Largest global investment in EB research to date: multi-million-pound drug repurposing trial provisionally agreed with LifeArc partner at Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foundation...
£34,000 raised in 2025 winter appeal supporting families like Darcie's with specialist items, emotional support and research; 697 support grants delivered in 2025; first Members Connect event in Northern Ireland; EB Priorities Setting Partnership study completed providing global research roadmap
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22,507 households helped through RBL casework and specialist support services across 66 countries
Key Metric 2
22,600 grants given to those in need, totalling £11.8 million
Key Metric 3
733 beneficiaries represented at tribunals, resulting in £24.5 million in War Pensions awards
1,548 new families living with dementia supported by RBL Admiral Nurses service
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3,600 blind veterans received support across the UK; 447 new blind veterans started receiving support in 2024/25
Key Metric 2
1,598 referrals to rehabilitation services completed; 313 veterans received assistive technology training
Key Metric 3
997 volunteers donated 26,824 hours of support; befriending service awarded Quality in Befriending Excellence — one of only 11 organisations in the UK to...
1,831 National Creative Wellbeing Project packs issued to help veterans reconnect with creativity and independence
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Key Metric 1
349,000+ people completed the Know Your Risk tool to assess their risk of type 2 diabetes in 2024
Key Metric 2
£4 million invested in 17 new research projects; total active grants portfolio worth over £45 million
Key Metric 3
32% of people completing NHS England's Path to Remission programme — which Diabetes UK campaigned for — put their type 2 diabetes into remission
Type 1 Diabetes Grand Challenge invested over £23 million in 19 projects across 161 experts from 47 institutions in 8 countries since 2022