The UK's top healthcare charities,all in one place.

Research breakthroughs, children's wards, first responders, and the hearts they keep beating. Legacy makes it simple to support the UK's leading healthcare charities together. One monthly direct debit, unlimited causes, full control.

A scientist in a lab coat using a pipette to transfer liquid into small tubes at a research bench

A young child sitting calmly on a medical bed while caring adults attend to them in a bright clinical room

A yellow London Ambulance Service NHS vehicle on a city street

A doctor in a white coat carefully examining a patient with a stethoscope during a clinic appointment

A doctor's gloved hand using a stethoscope to listen to a child's heartbeat during a check-up

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Our favourite four UK healthcare charities, each working on a different part of staying alive and well: research, paediatric care, first response, and heart health.

Cancer Research UK
Registered Charity: 1089464
What they do
Funding scientists, doctors and nurses working to prevent, diagnose and treat cancer.
Where they focus
Lab research, clinical trials, prevention campaigns, and translating discoveries into NHS treatments.
Why it matters
The largest independent funder of cancer research in the world, and a backer of breakthroughs behind half of today's standard treatments.
Why we like them
It's the long game done well. Cancer Research UK funds the slow basic science most donors never see, and then helps it land in the hospital ward years later. We like backing patient money.
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Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity
Registered Charity: 1160024
What they do
Funding the work of Great Ormond Street Hospital beyond what the NHS provides: research, equipment, family support and rebuilds.
Where they focus
Paediatric research, specialist equipment, family accommodation, and play and music therapy.
Why it matters
One of the world's leading children's hospitals, treating the rarest and most complex childhood illnesses.
Why we like them
The funded extras matter more than people realise: a parent's bed next to their child, a clown doctor on a Tuesday morning, a piece of equipment that didn't exist five years ago. Small details, life-changing.
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St John Ambulance
Registered Charity: 1077265
What they do
Training volunteers to deliver first aid and frontline medical support at events and in communities across England.
Where they focus
First aid training, event medical cover, NHS support during peaks, and youth programmes for under-25s.
Why it matters
Volunteer-led healthcare that bridges the gap between a member of the public and a paramedic, on the streets and at the scene.
Why we like them
Anyone walking past a St John volunteer can stop for help, no questions, no waiting list. It's the kind of soft infrastructure that holds a community together, and almost nobody else does it.
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British Heart Foundation
Registered Charity: 225971
What they do
Funding research into heart and circulatory diseases, the cause of one in four UK deaths.
Where they focus
Cardiovascular research, CPR and defibrillator training, public awareness, and frontline support for patients.
Why it matters
Heart disease still kills more people in the UK than cancer. BHF is the biggest independent funder pushing that number down.
Why we like them
Decades of investment that quietly rewrote what survivable heart disease looks like in this country. And the public defibrillator programme means a stranger somewhere is alive today because BHF was patient.
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