Working at Barts Charity

We’re a charity dedicated to supporting improvements to healthcare and transformative research with a primary focus on issues that matter to the people of East London. We do this by funding high quality, ground-breaking research, innovative patient care projects and NHS staff wellbeing initiatives that would not otherwise be funded by the NHS or other grant funders.

We work in partnership with the NHS, local research institutes and others who can help us achieve our goals and maximise our impact.

We mainly award our funding to Barts Health NHS Trust (which runs St Bartholomew’s, The Royal London, Mile End, Whipps Cross and Newham University Hospitals) and to the School of Medicine & Dentistry at Queen Mary University London where there are six medical research institutes.
We also support researchers at the School of Health Sciences at City, University of London

We make new awards totalling approximately £30m each year. Among NHS Charities, we are the second largest funder and by research spend are in the top fivefunders of medical research among members of the Association of Medical Research Charities.

We are approximately 40 staff, based in Smithfield (Farringdon). Our teams comprise Funding & Impact, Finance, Fundraising, Marketing & Communications and Operations.

Our primary beneficiaries are the people of East London served by Barts Health NHS Trust and our funding is helping to ensure that these communities receive the highest possible standards of healthcare. Much of the research we fund is tailored to local needs and improves the care and services they receive. In addition, the results of this research often have much wider implications – feeding into improved medical practice nationally and internationally.